CV and Publications Michael Brenner Curriculum Vitae Michael Brenner Present Positions Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington, D.C. Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich Education 1994 Ph.D. Jewish History (with distinction), M.Phil. 1991, Columbia University, New York 1988 Master of Arts, Jewish Studies at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien and History at University of Heidelberg Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (1985-87) Teaching Appointments 2013- Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University, Washington, D.C. 1997- Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich 1994-1997 Brandeis University Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History 1993-1994 Indiana University, Bloomington Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish History Visiting Professor Spring 2018 University of Vienna (Austria) Spring 2011 ETH Zürich (Switzerland) Fall 2009 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Spring 2009 University of Lucerne (Switzerland) Fall 2008 University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007 École des Hautes Études, Paris Spring 2006 Haifa University (Israel) Fall 2002, Fall 2005 Stanford University Spring 2002, Fall 2004 Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) Fall 1996 University of Mainz (Germany) 1 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Invited Research Fellowships 2011 (February-March) American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C. 2010 (Spring) Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2007-2008 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington Select University Service Activity 2019- Member of Graduate Student Committee, History Dept., AU 2011-2013 Member of University Senate, LMU 2001-2003 Associate Dean of the Faculty of History and Art, LMU 2002-2003 Chair of the History Department, LMU Numerous search committees at LMU and AU Select Honors and Election to Academic Positions 2020 Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience 2018 Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History 2014 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2014- Fellow of American Academy for Jewish Research 2013- International President, Leo Baeck Institute 2013- Board of Directors, Association for Israel Studies 2012- Fellow of Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, Mantua 2009- Fellow of Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1998-2009 Chairman of Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany 1997 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History Board Member and Advisory Committees Board Member, The Israel Institute Chair of Advisory Board, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem Member of Advisory Board, DAAD Institute for German Studies, Haifa University Member of Advisory Committee for the Posen Society of Fellows Member of Advisory Board, American Jewish Committee Berlin Member of Advisory Board, Jewish Museum Berlin Member of Advisory Board, Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten (Bavarian Memorial Sites) Member of Advisory Board, Memorial of Former Concentration Camp Flossenbürg Member of Advisory Board, Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerk Former Membership: Member of Advisory Committee, Jewish Museums Vienna, Augsburg and Fuerth Member of Advisory Board, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Project, University of Mainz Board of Directors Member, Association for Israel Studies (2013-2017) 2 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Member of Advisory Board, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. (2009-2013) Member of Advisory Board, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich-Berlin (2008-2012) Editorial Boards AJS Perspectives Israel Studies Jewish Cultural Studies (Littman Library) Jewish Quarterly Review Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Les Cahiers du judaisme Modern Judaism Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History Year Book of the Simon Dubnow Institute Area Editor (Encyclopedias) Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th ed. (eng. edition: Religion, Past and Present), Editor for Judaism (Middle Ages and Modern Periods) Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (all entries concerning Germany and Austria) Editor of Book Series and Journals Israel Studies (Wallstein Verlag Goettingen) Jewish History, Culture, and Religion (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag Goettingen) Jewish History and Culture in Bavaria (Oldenbourg Verlag Munich) Editor of Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur Publications Books (Authored) Der lange Schatten der Revolution. Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München, 1918-1923 (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019) (Hitler’s Testing Grounds: Jews and Antisemites in Munich, 1918- 1923, Princeton University Press 2020) In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea (Princeton University Press 2018; a thoroughly revised version of Israel: Traum und Wirklichkeit des jüdischen Staates, Munich: C.H. Beck 2016, 2nd rev. ed. 2017; Italian translation forthcoming) A Short History of the Jews (Princeton University Press 2010) (German original 2008, Italian 2010, Spanish 2012, Portuguese 2013, Turkish, Danish and Czech 2014) Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History (Princeton University Press 2010) (German original 2006) Zionism: A Brief History (Princeton: Marcus Wiener 2003, 2nd rev. ed. 2012) (German original 2002, 3rd rev. ed. 2008, Italian 2004; Korean 2005) The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press 1996; German 2000, Hebrew 2003, Japanese 2014) 3 CV and Publications Michael Brenner co-author of German-Jewish History in Modern Times, vol. 2: 1780-1871 (Munich: C. H. Beck 1996; New York: Columbia University Press 1997; Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2000) National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History 1997 After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (Princeton University Press 1997) (German original 1995) Am Beispiel Weiden: Jüdischer Alltag im Nationalsozialismus (Würzburg: Arena, 1983) Edited Books Israel-Studien. Geschichte - Methoden – Paradigmen (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020) A History of Jews in Germany since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press 2018, original German: Munich: C.H. Beck 2012) Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht 2015) (with Franziska Davies und Martin Schulze-Wessel) Der Holocaust in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft: Bilanz und Perspektiven (Göttingen: Wallstein 2012) (with Maximilian Strnad) Die Juden in Franken (München: Oldenbourg, 2012) (with Daniela Eisenstein) Die Juden in Schwaben (München: Oldenbourg 2012) (with Sabine Ullmann) Die Juden in der Oberpfalz (München: Oldenbourg, 2009) (with Renate Hoepfinger) Mediating Modernity. Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World (Detroit: Wayne State University, 2008) (with Lauren B. Strauss) Jüdisches München. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (München: C.H. Beck, 2006) (with Richard Bauer) Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006) (German edition 2006) (with Gideon Reuveni) Wenn Du geschrieben hättest, Josephus: Ungeschriebene Briefe der jüdischen Geschichte (München: C.H. Beck, 2005) Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (Tübingen: Mohr- Siebeck, 2003) (with Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufmann) Jüdische Geschichte lesen: Texte der jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (München: C.H. Beck, 2003) (with Anthony Kauders, Gideon Reuveni and Nils 4 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Römer) Jüdische Sprachen in deutscher Umwelt: Hebräisch und Jiddisch von der Aufklärung bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002) Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute (München: C.H. Beck, 2002) (English translation fortcoming with University of Wisconsin Press) (with David N. Myers) Wissenschaft vom Judentum: Annäherungen nach dem Holocaust (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2000) (with Stefan Rohrbacher) Two Nations: British and German Jews in Comparative Perspective (Tübingen: Mohr- Siebeck, 1999) (with Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter) Zionistische Utopie - israelische Realität: Religion und Nation in Israel (München: C.H.Beck 1999) (with Yfaat Weiss) In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1998) (with Derek Penslar) Editor of Special Journal Issues German-Israeli Relations in Culture and the Humanities, Naharayim (Jerusalem, 2018) Framing the Conversation: Jewish Voices in the German Sixties, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (1/2014) (with John Efron) Published Lectures From German Wissenschaft to Global Scholarship: Jewish Historiography between the World Wars (Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 53. New York, 2011) In the Shadow of the Holocaust. The Changing Image of German Jewry after 1945. (Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010). The Same History is not the Same Story: Jewish History and Jewish Politics (Bloomington: Indiana University, 2006). Nichtjüdische Historiker und jüdische Geschichte: Der Wandel in der Wahrnehmung von außen, Franz – Delitzsch – Vorlesung 2005, Münster 2006. Mekomah shel Berlin betoldot yahadut germaniah (Die Rolle Berlins in der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte). Braun Lectures in the History of the Jews in Prussia 5 (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan, 2000) Wie jüdisch waren Deutschlands Juden? Die Renaissance jüdischer