Yehuda Reinharz

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Jehuda Reinharz (* 1944 in Haifa ) is an American historian of Judaism and former president of Brandeis University in Massachusetts .

Life

Jehuda Reinharz received his school education in Germany and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent in 1961 .

There he earned bachelor degrees from Columbia University and Jewish Theological Seminary (both New York ) as well as a master’s degree in medieval Jewish history from Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts, and a Ph. D. in modern Jewish history from Brandeis University (also Massachusetts).

He became the first professor of Jewish studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , and in 1982 he became professor of modern Jewish history at Brandeis University , where he founded or directed various institutes. In 1994 he succeeded Samuel O. Thier as the 7th President of Brandeis University; in 2011 he was followed by Frederick M. Lawrence . In 1998 he was appointed by US President Bill Clinton to chair the commission that advises the government on historical and political questions relating to the Holocaust .

Jehuda Reinharz holds honorary doctorates from the Hebrew Union College , JTS, Fairfield University in Connecticut , Ben Gurion University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel (of which he has chaired the international board since 2017). He has also been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995 .

He is married to Shulamit Reinharz, professor of sociology at Brandeis University, and has daughters Naomi and Yael with her.

Fonts

As an author and co-author

• Fatherland or Promised Land. The Dilemma of the German Jew, 1893-1914 . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1975.
• Chaim Weizmann . Oxford University Press, New York
  • Vol. 1: The Making of a Zionist Leader . 1985, ISBN 0-19-503446-5 .
  • Vol. 2: The Making of a Statesman . 1993, ISBN 0-19-507215-4 .
• with Monika Schwarz-Friesel : The language of hostility towards Jews in the 21st century . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027768-5 .
• History of the donkey . Carmel Publishing, Haifa 2013.

As editor

• Documents on the history of German Zionism 1882–1933 . Mohr, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-16-743272-1 .
• The Jewish Response to German Culture. From the Enlightenment to the Second World War . University Press of New England, Hanover NH 1985, ISBN 0-87451-345-6 .
• Living with Antisemitism. Modern Jewish Responses . University Press of New England, Hanover NH 1987, ISBN 0-87451-388-X .
• The Impact of Western Nationalisms. Essays Dedicated to Walter Z. Laqueur on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday . Sage Publications, London 1991 (= Journal of Contemporary History , vol. 26 (1991), issue 3/4).