Deborah Hertz

Deborah Hertz (born February 9, 1949 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) is an American historian. Her research focus is on recent German history, especially recent Jewish history and the recent history of European women. Her current research project deals with the history of radical Jewish women.

Life and education

Deborah Hertz was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1949 and graduated from Highland Park Senior High School in 1967. She studied at New York University for two years before completing a year abroad at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 1970 she returned to the United States and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1971 with a degree in humanities . She stayed at the University of Minnesota and received her PhD in German History in 1979.

After teaching at Pittsburg State University in Kansas for a year, Deborah Hertz moved to Binghamton State University in 1979.

She stayed in Binghamton until she accepted a position at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville in 1996 . Deborah Hertz has been Professor and Chair of the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish History at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 2004 . She is co-initiator and co-director of the Holocaust Living History Workshop at UCSD, a joint project of the UCSD library and Jewish studies.

Deborah Hertz has given guest lectures at the Hebrew University, the University of Tel Aviv and the University of Haifa and has received two visiting professorships from Harvard University .

Hertz is married to Martin Bunzl, who teaches at Rutgers University . The couple have two adult children together.

Publications

Hertz's first book, Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Yale, 1988 and Syracuse, 2005) traces the rise and fall of Jewish salons in Berlin at the end of the eighteenth century. Jewish High Society has been published in a German edition under the title The Jewish Salons in Old Berlin by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. A new edition of the German translation with a new foreword was published by the European Publishing House in July 2018.

• How Jews became Germans: The world of Jewish converts from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Translated by Thomas Bertrand. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2010. Original title: How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007 (Syracuse Paperback: Syracuse University Press, 2009).

Her second book, How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin (Yale, 2007) examines the frequency and significance of conversion from Judaism to Lutheranism from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. This book was also translated into German and was published by Campus Verlag under the title How Jews became Germans: The World of Jewish Converts from the 17th to the 19th Century .

• The Jewish salons in old Berlin. (Frankfurt am Main: M .: Anton Hain, 1991) (Munich: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995) (Berlin: Philo Verlag, 1998) (Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2018). The German edition has been published four times. 10,000 copies were sold in Germany. Original title: How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007) (Paperback edition Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009).
• Letters to a friend: Rahel Varnhagen to Rebecca Friedländer (Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 1988 and 2018).

Articles since 2011:

• "Judaism in Germany 1650-1815." In The Cambridge History of Judaism , vol. 7, edited by Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• "Henriette Herz as Jew, Henriette Herz as Christian: Relationships, Conversion, Antisemitism." In the communication, knowledge and action spaces of Henriette Herz , edited by Hannah Lund, Ulrike Schneider and Ulrike Wels. Writings of Early Modern Potsdam, vol. 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017.
• "Manya Shochat and Her Traveling Guns: Jewish Radical Women from Pogrom Self-Defense to the First Kibbutzim." In Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender , edited by Jack Jacobs. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• "Love, Money, and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg." In Three-Way Street: German Jews and the Transnational , edited by Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
• “Dangerous Politics, Dangerous Liaisons: Love and Terror Among Jewish Women Radicals in Czarist Russia,” in Histoire, Economie et Société (Volume 33, Number 4, 2014).
• The Red Countess Helene von Racowitza: From the Promise of Emancipation to Suicide in 1911. In: The Emanzipationsedikt of 1812 in Prussia. The long journey of the Jews to become 'native' and 'Prussian citizens'. Edited by Irene Diekmann . European-Jewish Studies: Contributions, Volume 15. de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, the proceedings of a conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Edict of Emancipation sponsored by the Moses Mendelssohn Center at the University of Potsdam.
• Digi-Baeck: Five Hundred Years of German-Jewish History Online. Transcript of a one-day conference in which Deborah Hertz was a participant, published in the Leo Baeck Institute Memorial Lecture 55 (New York and Berlin, 2012).
• “Family love and public Judaism: the conversion problem in 19th century Germany.” Come in! Step out! Why people change their religion , edited by Regina Laudage-Kleeberg and Hannes Sulzenbacher. Berlin: Parthas, 2012.
• “Masquerades and Open Secrets, Or New Ways to Understand Jewish Assimilation,” in Hidden Beliefs or Dual Identities? The Image of Marranism in the 19th and 20th Centuries , edited by Hannah Lotte Lund, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, and Paola Ferruta. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms Verlag, 2011.

In addition, Deborah Hertz edited letters from the author Rahel Varnhagen to her friend and author Rebecca Friedländer: Letters to a friend: Rahel Varnhagen to Rebecca Friedländer (Cologne, 1988 and 2018).

Web links

• Deborah Hertz | Home | Modern Jewish Studies | UC San Diego
• Deborah Hertz on academia.edu
• UCSD TV interview
• UCSD TV Growing Up in the Shadows of the Holocaust
• Deborah Hertz at the Jews and the Left YIVO conference
• Jewish Sightseeing Writer's Directory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deborah Hertz . Jewish Women's Archive . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
2. ↑ Deborah Hertz | Biography | Modern Jewish Studies | UC San Diego. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 
3. ^ Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Google Books) , Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin Google Books Preview.
4. ↑ The Daughters' Rebellion . In: Der Spiegel , March 23, 1991. Retrieved February 17, 2015. 
5. ^ How Jews Became Germans (Google Books) , How Jews Became Germans Google Books Preview.
6. ^ Peter Gay: The last temptation. How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin (book review) . Moment . March 1, 2008. Archived from the original on September 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2012. 
7. ↑ Deborah Hertz | Publications / Reviews | Modern Jewish Studies | UC San Diego. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .