Michael A. Meyer

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Michael Meyer (2007)

Michael Albert Meyer (born November 15, 1937 in Berlin ) is an American historian of modern Jewish history.

Life

Michael A. Meyer's family was able to emigrate to the United States via Spain through the agency of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration in 1941 . He grew up in Los Angeles and studied history at the University of California, Los Angeles . He received his PhD from the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati . From 1964 he taught in the HUC branch in Los Angeles, and in 1967 he became a member of the faculty of the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati. There he received the Adolph S. Ochs Professorship for Jewish History. Between 2000 and 2008 he also held regular teaching positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in the HUC branch in Jerusalem .

He has dedicated his work to research into Reform Judaism . Meyer participated in the publication of the writings of Leo Baeck and the autobiographical writings of Joachim Prinz . Between 1996 and 1998 he edited a four-volume German-Jewish story at the Leo Baeck Institute with the assistance of Michael Brenner , the second volume of which was largely written by him.

Meyer was President of the Leo Baeck Institute from 1991 to 2013 .

In 2000 he was a guest at the Aby Warburg House in Hamburg as a researcher . In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and in 2008 the commemorative publication Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World was published for him . His wife Margaret J. Meyer is a rabbi of Reform Judaism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism . New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. German edition: Answer to modernity. History of the reform movement in Judaism . Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-98363-7 .
  • Jewish Identity in the Modern World . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990
  • as editor with Michael Brenner: German-Jewish History in Modern Times . Beck, Munich 1996–1997
  • Judaism within modernity: essays on Jewish history and religion . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, © 2001.

literature

  • Lauren B. Strauss; Michael Brenner (Ed.): Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World: essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008
  • Andreas W. Daum : Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians. Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities, in: The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians , ed. v. Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan. Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , 1–52.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 426-428 (short biography, list of publications) .
  2. ^ Meyer's contributions to the second volume of German-Jewish history were translated into German by Holger Fliessbach .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Michael A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Michael Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin