Michael Brenner
Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies at American University. He also holds the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, held teaching positions at Indiana University and Brandeis University and was a visiting professor at Stanford, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Haifa, Zurich, Vienna, and the Central European University in Budapest. He is the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture and an elected member of the Bavarian Academy of Science, the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Italy and the American Academy for Jewish Research. He chairs the Academic Advisory Board of the Franz Rosenzweig Center at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and is a member of several academic boards in Israel, the US, and Europe.
His new book, *Der lange Schatten der Revolution: Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München* (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2019) is scheduled to appear with Princeton University Press in 2020. Among his other book publications, translated in over then languages, are *In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea* (Princeton University Press, 2018), *A Short History of the Jews* (Princeton University Press, 2010), *Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History* (Princeton University Press 2010), *Zionism: A Brief History* (Marcus Wiener 2003) and *The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany* (Yale University Press 2000). His most recently edited book is *A History of Jews in Germany since 1945* (Indiana University Press 2018).
His new book, *Der lange Schatten der Revolution: Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München* (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2019) is scheduled to appear with Princeton University Press in 2020. Among his other book publications, translated in over then languages, are *In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea* (Princeton University Press, 2018), *A Short History of the Jews* (Princeton University Press, 2010), *Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History* (Princeton University Press 2010), *Zionism: A Brief History* (Marcus Wiener 2003) and *The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany* (Yale University Press 2000). His most recently edited book is *A History of Jews in Germany since 1945* (Indiana University Press 2018).
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