Abigail Green

• German history
• Jewish history
• German nationalism
• Political history
• History of Europe

Abigail Green
Born	(1971-05-12) 12 May 1971 (age 53)
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Title	Professor of Modern European History
Spouse	Boaz Brosh
Children	1
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge Brasenose College, Oxford

Abigail Frances Floretta Green ^[1] (born 12 May 1971) is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.

Career

Green's mother was born into the Sebag-Montefiore family. ^[2] Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Oxford, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge; her PhD was awarded in 1999 for her thesis "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866". ^{[1] [3] [4]} She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2000. ^{[1] [5] [6]} In 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford. ^[7]

Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe, nationalism and regionalism in Germany, Jewish internationalism, and liberalism. ^[5]

Honours and awards

Green was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir Moses Montefiore, ^[8] which was also named one the New Republic's "Best Books of 2010", included among the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year", and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. ^{[9] [10]}

Personal life

Green is married to Boaz Brosh, with whom she has a daughter. ^[11] Their wedding took place at Bevis Marks Synagogue in London. ^[12]

Selected publications

• Coauthored with Peter Bergamin, "Vera Salomons and the Kotel: reading international Jewish history through a Jewish country house", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (2022), pp. 261-271.
• "Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national", The Historical Journal , vol. 57, no. 4 (2014), pp. 1157–1175.
• "Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of modern Jewish womanhood", History of European Ideas , vol. 40 (2014), pp. 747–760.
• "The limits of intervention: coercive diplomacy and the Jewish question in the nineteenth century", The International History Review , vol. 36, no. 3 (2014), pp. 473–492.
• (Edited with Vincent Viaene) Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750, Palgrave Transnational History series (Palgrave, 2012).
• Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
• "The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?", Past & Present , vol. 199 (2008), pp. 175–205.
• Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

References

1. The Brazen Nose: 2015–2016, vol. 50 (Brasenose College, 2016), p. 11.
2. Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (Yale University Press, 2010), preface.
3. "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866", Newton Library Catalogue (University of Cambridge). Retrieved 11 May 2018.
4. "Congregation of the Regent House on 20 March 1999", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5770 (vol. 128, no. 28) 21 April 1999. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
5. "Professor Abigail Green", Brasenose College. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
6. "St John's College", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5740 (vol. 128, no. 28), 3 June 1998, section 22. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
7. "Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2015" Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine , The University of Oxford Gazette, no. 510915, October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
8. Jennifer Lipman, "Montefiore bigoraphy wins prestigious prize", The Jewish Chronicle , . Retrieved 11 May 2018.
9. "Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010", TheNew Republic, 22 December 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
10. Naomi Firestone-Teeter, "Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist... Abigail Green", Jewish Book Council , 6 February 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
11. Green, Abigail (2010). Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. xii. ISBN   9780674048805.
12. Green, Abigail. "Presentation to Planning Committee Members, 4 October 2021" (PDF). City of London Democracy. Retrieved 22 February 2025.