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Jeffrey Herf

October 20, 2023

Jeffrey C. Herf (born April 24, 1947) is an American historian of modern Europe, particularly modern Germany. He is Distinguished University Professor of modern European at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Biography Edit

He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Herf's father escaped from Nazi Germany in 1937 and immigrated to the United States. His mother's parents left Ukraine to came to the United States before World War I. He grew up in a Reform Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1]

Herf graduated in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969 and received his PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Harvard University, Ohio University, and Emory University.

In his 1984 book, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, drawing on critical theory, in particular ideology critique, Herf coined the term "reactionary modernism" to describe the mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past, a highly technological romanticism, which was a current in the thinking of ideologues of Weimar's "conservative revolution" and of currents in the Nazi Party and Nazi regime.

His subsequent books examine the political culture of West Germany before and during the battle over Euromissiles in the 1980s; memory and politics regarding the Holocaust in East and West Germany; Nazi Germany's domestic antisemitic propaganda; and Nazi propaganda aimed at North Africa and the Middle East; and the history of antagonism to Israel by the East German regime and West German leftist organizations from the Six Day War in 1967 to the Revolutions of 1989, the collapse of the European Communist states and the German reunification in 1990.

Herf has had a variety of fellowships including at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the German Historical Institute in Washington, the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in Tel Aviv, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and at the American Academy in Berlin in Fall 2007.

He is married to the historian and artist Sonya Michel.[1]

Awards and honors Edit

Published works Edit

  • Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich French edition, Le Modernisme Reactionaire: Haine de la Raison et Culte de la Technologie aux Sources du Nazisme, trans. Frederic Joly, (Paris: Editions L’Echappee, 2018); Greek edition, University of Crete Press, 1994; Italian edition, Il modernismo reazionario: Tecnologia, cultura e politica nella Germania di Weimar e del Terzo Reich (Bolgna: Il Mulino, 1988); Spanish edition, El Modernismo Reaccionario: Tecnologia, cultura y politica en Weimar y el Tercer Reich, (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1990); Japanese edition, Iwanami Shoton, Tokyo, 1991; Greek edition, 1996; Portuguese edition, O Modernismo Reacionario: Tecnoligia, Cultura e Politica na Republica de Weimar e No 3 Reich, (Sao Paolo: Editora ensaio, 1993).
  • War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (The Free Press, 1991. Examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War.
  • Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997. German edition: Zweierlei Erinnerugn: Die NS Vergangenheit im geteilten Deutschland, (Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 1998).
  • The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006. The work examines the Nazi regime's radical anti-Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds, an explanatory framework, and effort to legitimate mass murder. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 2006 in the category of works on the Holocaust. Published in Spanish as El Enemigo Judio by Editorial Sudamericana, Buenes Aires, Argentina, 2008; in French as L’ennemi juif: La propagande nazie, 1939-1945 (Paris: Calmann-Levy, Paris, 2011; Portuguese as Inimigo Judeu: Propaganda nazista durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e o Holocausto, (Sao Paolo, Edipro, 2014); Chinese, (Yilin Press, 2019).
  • Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009). French edition: (2012); Italian (2010); Japanese (2013). This work documents and interprets Nazi Germany's Arabic language print and radio broadcast propaganda aimed at North Africa and the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. It draws on translations in German in various German government archives as well as a remarkable collection of English language transcripts produced by American diplomats, mostly in Cairo during the war. It documents a fusion of radical anti-Semitism in Nazi ideology with radical anti-Semitism emerging from Islamists and radical Arab nationalists who collaborated with the Nazi regime especially from 1941 to 1945 in Berlin. The cultural fusion in wartime Berlin persisted in Islamist politics in the Middle East after 1945. Recipient of the bi-annual Sybil Halpern Milton Prize for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in 2009 and 2010 by the German Studies Association, September 2011; and 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Book Prize. Italian edition, Propaganda Nazista Per Il Mondo Arabo (Rome: Edizioni dell’Altana, 2010). French edition, Hitler, la propaganda et le monde arabe (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 2012); Japanese edition: (Tokyo: Iwanami Shotun, 2013).
  • Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). German edition: Unerklaerte Kriege gegen Israel: Die DDR und die westdeutsche radikale Linke, 1967-1989 (Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019).
  • Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State(Cambridge University Press, 2022):

Edited books

Anthony McElligott and Jeffrey Herf, eds., Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Jeffrey Herf, ed., Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspectives: Convergence and Divergence (New York: Routledge, 2007).>

Translations

  • Alfred Schmidt: History and structure: an essay on Hegelian-Marxist and structuralist theories of history. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, c1981. ISBN 0-262-19198-9

Articles Edit

  • by (2022-07-06). "The Nazi Roots of Islamist Hate". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  • "What is Old and What is New about the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism," Partisan Review, No. 69, Winter 2002

Essays and reviews on contemporary history, ideas and politics in American Interest, American Purpose, Commentary, Fathom Journal, Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, History News Network, New German Critique, The New Republic, Partisan Review, Quillette, The Tablet Magazine, Telos,Times of Israel, Washington Post, Die Welt, and Die Zeit.

References Edit

  1. ^ a b "Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf". Fathom. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. ^ "George Louis Beer Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  3. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.

External links Edit

  • Herf bio 2020-09-20 at the Wayback Machine at University of Maryland's site
  • "The Historian as Provocateur: George Mosse’s Accomplishment and Legacy", Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 29 (2001), pp. 7–26.
  • The "New World Order": From Unilateralism to Cosmopolitanism by Herf
  • "An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany," Telos 144 (Fall 2008): 8–37

October 20, 2023
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Jeffrey C Herf born April 24 1947 is an American historian of modern Europe particularly modern Germany He is Distinguished University Professor of modern European at the University of Maryland College Park Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards and honors 3 Published works 3 1 Articles 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditHe was born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin Herf s father escaped from Nazi Germany in 1937 and immigrated to the United States His mother s parents left Ukraine to came to the United States before World War I He grew up in a Reform Jewish family in Milwaukee Wisconsin 1 Herf graduated in history from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1969 and received his PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 1981 Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland he taught at Harvard University Ohio University and Emory University In his 1984 book Reactionary Modernism Technology Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich drawing on critical theory in particular ideology critique Herf coined the term reactionary modernism to describe the mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past a highly technological romanticism which was a current in the thinking of ideologues of Weimar s conservative revolution and of currents in the Nazi Party and Nazi regime His subsequent books examine the political culture of West Germany before and during the battle over Euromissiles in the 1980s memory and politics regarding the Holocaust in East and West Germany Nazi Germany s domestic antisemitic propaganda and Nazi propaganda aimed at North Africa and the Middle East and the history of antagonism to Israel by the East German regime and West German leftist organizations from the Six Day War in 1967 to the Revolutions of 1989 the collapse of the European Communist states and the German reunification in 1990 Herf has had a variety of fellowships including at Harvard University the University of Chicago the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton the German Historical Institute in Washington the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in Tel Aviv the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and at the American Academy in Berlin in Fall 2007 He is married to the historian and artist Sonya Michel 1 Awards and honors Edit1996 Charles Frankel Prize co winner of the Wiener Library and Institute of Contemporary History Divided Memory 1998 George Louis Beer Prize Divided Memory 2 2006 National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Enemy 3 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Prize for Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World 2011 Sybil Halpern Prize German Studies Association for Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World 2014 Appointed Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland College Park 2022 Bernard Lewis Prize Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa for Israel s Moment International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State 1945 1949 Published works EditReactionary Modernism Technology Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich French edition Le Modernisme Reactionaire Haine de la Raison et Culte de la Technologie aux Sources du Nazisme trans Frederic Joly Paris Editions L Echappee 2018 Greek edition University of Crete Press 1994 Italian edition Il modernismo reazionario Tecnologia cultura e politica nella Germania di Weimar e del Terzo Reich Bolgna Il Mulino 1988 Spanish edition El Modernismo Reaccionario Tecnologia cultura y politica en Weimar y el Tercer Reich Mexico City Fondo de Cultura Economica 1990 Japanese edition Iwanami Shoton Tokyo 1991 Greek edition 1996 Portuguese edition O Modernismo Reacionario Tecnoligia Cultura e Politica na Republica de Weimar e No 3 Reich Sao Paolo Editora ensaio 1993 War By Other Means Soviet Power West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles The Free Press 1991 Examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War Divided Memory The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys Harvard University Press 1997 German edition Zweierlei Erinnerugn Die NS Vergangenheit im geteilten Deutschland Berlin Propylaen Verlag 1998 The Jewish Enemy Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust Harvard University Press 2006 The work examines the Nazi regime s radical anti Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds an explanatory framework and effort to legitimate mass murder Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 2006 in the category of works on the Holocaust Published in Spanish as El Enemigo Judio by Editorial Sudamericana Buenes Aires Argentina 2008 in French as L ennemi juif La propagande nazie 1939 1945 Paris Calmann Levy Paris 2011 Portuguese as Inimigo Judeu Propaganda nazista durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e o Holocausto Sao Paolo Edipro 2014 Chinese Yilin Press 2019 Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World Yale University Press 2009 French edition 2012 Italian 2010 Japanese 2013 This work documents and interprets Nazi Germany s Arabic language print and radio broadcast propaganda aimed at North Africa and the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust It draws on translations in German in various German government archives as well as a remarkable collection of English language transcripts produced by American diplomats mostly in Cairo during the war It documents a fusion of radical anti Semitism in Nazi ideology with radical anti Semitism emerging from Islamists and radical Arab nationalists who collaborated with the Nazi regime especially from 1941 to 1945 in Berlin The cultural fusion in wartime Berlin persisted in Islamist politics in the Middle East after 1945 Recipient of the bi annual Sybil Halpern Milton Prize for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in 2009 and 2010 by the German Studies Association September 2011 and 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Book Prize Italian edition Propaganda Nazista Per Il Mondo Arabo Rome Edizioni dell Altana 2010 French edition Hitler la propaganda et le monde arabe Paris Calmann Levy 2012 Japanese edition Tokyo Iwanami Shotun 2013 Undeclared Wars with Israel East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967 1989 Cambridge University Press 2016 German edition Unerklaerte Kriege gegen Israel Die DDR und die westdeutsche radikale Linke 1967 1989 Goettingen Wallstein Verlag 2019 Israel s Moment International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State Cambridge University Press 2022 Edited booksAnthony McElligott and Jeffrey Herf eds Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives London Palgrave Macmillan 2017 Jeffrey Herf ed Antisemitism and Anti Zionism in Historical Perspectives Convergence and Divergence New York Routledge 2007 gt Translations Alfred Schmidt History and structure an essay on Hegelian Marxist and structuralist theories of history Cambridge Massachusetts MIT Press c1981 ISBN 0 262 19198 9Articles Edit by 2022 07 06 The Nazi Roots of Islamist Hate Tablet Magazine Retrieved 2022 08 07 What is Old and What is New about the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism Partisan Review No 69 Winter 2002Essays and reviews on contemporary history ideas and politics in American Interest American Purpose Commentary Fathom Journal Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung History News Network New German Critique The New Republic Partisan Review Quillette The Tablet Magazine Telos Times of Israel Washington Post Die Welt and Die Zeit References Edit a b Undeclared Wars on Israel East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967 1981 An Interview with Jeffrey Herf Fathom Retrieved 17 May 2020 George Louis Beer Prize Recipients American Historical Association Retrieved December 24 2017 Past Winners Jewish Book Council Retrieved 2020 01 21 External links EditHerf bio Archived 2020 09 20 at the Wayback Machine at University of Maryland s site The Historian as Provocateur George Mosse s Accomplishment and Legacy Yad Vashem Studies vol 29 2001 pp 7 26 The New World Order From Unilateralism to Cosmopolitanism by Herf What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean in the Berlin Republic in 2007 An Age of Murder Ideology and Terror in Germany Telos 144 Fall 2008 8 37 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jeffrey Herf amp oldid 1157868808, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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