Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Charles Herf (born April 24, 1947 ) is a history professor at the University of Maryland , specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of 20th century Europe , especially Germany .

Life

Herf received his Ph. D. from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1980 . Before becoming a professor at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens , Ohio . He has written articles for Die Zeit , The New Republic and Partisan Review .

In autumn 2007 Jeffrey Herf was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin .

Positions on the subject of Islam and fascism

In an interview with the Berlin weekly newspaper jungle world in July 2010, Herf reported on a conference “Arab responses to fascism and National Socialism ” in Tel Aviv in May 2010. In it he expressed the view that some scholars have not had Islamist anti-Semitism since the 1920s examine and therefore do not want to recognize.

Works

• Reactionary Modernism. Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the 3rd Reich. Cambridge UP 1985 ISBN 0-521-26566-5 . Repr. 1986 ISBN 0-521-33833-6 (readable and searchable online)
• Was By Other Means. Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles. The Free Press, 1991
• Divided memory. The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Harvard UP, Cambridge MA 1997 ISBN 0-674-21303-3
  • in German: two kinds of memory. The Nazi past in divided Germany. Propylaea, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-549-05698-2
• The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard UP , Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2006 ISBN 0-674-02738-8
  • In the circle of madness. Review by Matthias Küntzel
• Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. Yale UP , New Haven 2009 ISBN 978-0-300-14579-3 TB: ISBN 0-300-16805-5
  • Review of Klaus Faber Nazi Propaganda in the Arab World
  • DIE WELT Jan. 2010 Benny Morris : Then Allah sent Adolf Hitler, with many quotes from the radio broadcasts (in German)
  • Critical Review "The Chronicle" November 22, 2009: Richard Wolin: Herf's Misuses of History. in Engl.
• as ed .: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence. Routledge Chapman Hall, NY 2006 ISBN 0-415-40069-4 (online readable and searchable)
• Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989 . Cambridge UP 2016 ISBN 978-1-107-46162-8
  • in German: Unexplained wars against Israel. The GDR and the West German radical left, 1967-1989. Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3484-7 .

Articles and book chapters (selection)

• What is old an what is new in the terrorism of islamic fundamentalism? in: Partisan Review, Vol. 69, H. 1, 2002
• "The War and the Jews." National Socialist Propaganda in World War II. In the Military History Research Office ; Jörg Echternkamp , ed., The German War Society 1939 to 1945. Exploitation, interpretations, exclusion. Collective work: The German Reich and the Second World War , 9/2. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Munich 2005 ISBN 3-421-06528-4 pp. 159–202

• Nazi Germany's Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings . In: Central European History , Vol. 42, Issue 4, December 2009, pp. 709-736. doi: 10.1017 / S000893890999104X
• The image of the third world will change. Interview by Karl Pfeifer . In jungle world , no. July 15, 2010, p. 10. English
• Hitler's jihad. National Socialist Radio Propaganda for North Africa and the Middle East. in Zs. Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , Oldenbourg, Munich April 2010, no. 2. ISSN  0042-5702 pp. 259–286.
• Democracy put to the test. Political culture, power politics and the rearmament crisis in West Germany , in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 40 (1992), 1–28.
• The secret trial , in Die Zeit of October 7, 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jeffrey Herf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Department of History , University of Maryland, College Park
• Herf reviews Gilbert Achcar's book : The Arabs and the Holocaust. The Arab-Israeli war of narratives , in: The New Republic , Online Review, November 1, 2010. ( Arabs and the Holocaust: A Response by Gilbert Achcar)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeffrey Herf in conversation about Islamist forms of anti-Semitism , in: Jungle World , No. 28, July 15, 2010.
2. ↑ later also as TB .; readable and searchable online
3. ↑ Won the Fraenkel Prize of the Vienna Library in London and the George Lewis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. - Especially important because of a comprehensive, source-based presentation of GDR anti-Semitism in the late 1940s and early 1950s. German Version with lit. in the engl. Barrel. Lit. only in the German note. Version without the b / w archive photos of the engl. output
4. ↑ readable online in google book search. Various Ed.
5. ↑ In English. Readable and searchable online in internet bookshops. 2009 hardcover, unlike there - TB: November 2010
6. ↑ online .
7. ↑ Available as full text on the net, but the indication of the link is blocked by WP. So enter in google: jeffrey herf "static.ow.ly" .