Anson Rabinbach

Anson Gilbert Rabinbach (born June 2, 1945 ) is an American modern historian.

Life

Anson Rabinbach studied at Hofstra University (BA, 1967), and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with George L. Mosse, among others . He had a longer research stay in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1973 in Madison with a thesis on Austrian social democracy. Rabinbach was a Guggenheim Fellow and received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In 1974 he was one of the founders of the scientific journal New German Critique and is its co-editor.

Rabinbach taught at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York and at Hampshire College in Amherst . He then went to Princeton University as Professor of Modern European History , where he was temporarily director of European Cultural Studies.

In 1987 Rabinbach received the Austrian Victor Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements .

Fonts (selection)

The Migration of Galician Jews to Vienna. In: Austrian History Yearbook. Volume XI, Berghahn Books / Rice University Press, Houston 1975.
The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927–1934 . 1979.
- From red Vienna to civil war . Translation by Wolfgang Muchitsch, Ewald Mahnschek. Löcker, Vienna 1989 ISBN 3-85409-136-2 .
with Jack Zipes (ed.): Germans and Jews since the Holocaust; the changing situation in West Germany. Holmes & Meier, New York 1986.
In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Enlightenment and Apocalypse. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley 1997.
The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity . University of California Press, Berkeley 1992, ISBN 0-520-07827-6 .
- Motor man. Strength, fatigue and the origins of modernity. Translation by Michael Vogt. Turia and Kant, Vienna 2001.
with Wolfgang Bialas (Ed.): Nazi Germany and the Humanities . Oxford 2007.
with Eva Horn : Dark Powers. Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in History and Fiction. Special Issue New German Critique 103, Winter 2008, ISSN 0094-033X .
From Hollywood to the gallows. The persecution and murder of Otto Katz . In: Journal for the history of ideas . Issue II / 1 spring 2008.
Cold War terms: totalitarianism, anti-fascism, genocide. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0412-3 .
Brown book. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 402-407 (covers the Brown Books 1933/34).
with Sander L. Gilman (Ed.): The Third Reich Sourcebook . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013. (contains 400 documents)

Web links

Literature by and about Anson Rabinbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Anson Rabinbach in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Anson Rabinbach , at Jena University, 2007
Anson Rabinbach , at Princeton University

personal data
SURNAME	Rabinbach, Anson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rabinbach, Anson Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1945