Jeffrey Herf
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Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Full Biography
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park where he taught Modern European, especially modern German history. His recent publications include Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to the Establishment of the Jewish State, 1945-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2022); Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Radical Left, 1967-1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009; The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006), Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997; and War by Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (Free Press, 1991); and Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984). His essay collection, Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left, and Islamist is forthcoming with Routledge Publishers in early 2024.
He has published essays on contemporary history and politics in The American Interest, American Purpose, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, History News Network, The National Interest, The New Republic, Partisan Review, Quillette, The Times of Israel, Die Welt, and Die Zeit.
Education
B.A. (1969) University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A. (1971) History, State University of New York at Buffalo; Ph.D. (1981) Sociology, Brandeis University
Subjects
European History, Modern Germany, Nazi Germany, Europe and the Middle East, Antisemitism
Experience
- Full Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 2000-016.
- Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016-
- Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park, 2022-
Major Publications
- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006).
- Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys Harvard University Press, Fall 1997. Winner of 1998 American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; and co-winner of the 1996 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History by the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London.
- War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance, and the Battle of the Euromissiles (New York: The Free Press, 1991)
- Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)