James Loeffler

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James Loeffler is an American historian. He holds the Felix Posen Professorship in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University and is co-editor of AJS Review . [1]

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Education

Loeffler studied Social Studies at Harvard University, graduated as A.B. magna cum laude 1996. Then he studied history at Columbia University were he graduated as M.A. in 2000 and as Ph.D. with Distinction in 2006. Postgraduate Studies in Jewish Religious and Political Thought, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Inter-University Jewish Studies Fellow) and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies (Dorot Fellow), 1996-1997. [2] [3] [ better source needed ]

Research

Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University. [4] His book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, was recipient of the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association [5] and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies. [6]

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