James Loeffler

James Loeffler
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Historian, professor, author

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]

Education

Loeffler studied social studies at Harvard University, graduating with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1996. He then studied history at Columbia University, earning an M.A. in 2000 and a Ph.D. with distinction in 2006. Loeffler did postgraduate studies in Jewish religious and political thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. ^{[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 received the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association ^[5] and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies. ^[6]

Bibliography

• The Law of Strangers. Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN   9781107140417.
• Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Yale: Yale University Press. 2018-05-04. ISBN   9780300217247.
• The Most Musical Nation. Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. Yale: Yale University Press. 2013-09-10. ISBN   9780300198300.

References

1. "James Loeffler". jhu.edu. Johns Hopkins University . Retrieved June 18, 2024.
2. "CV" (PDF). University of Virginia. August 2021. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
3. "CV" (PDF). Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science. 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
4. "Fellows 2023–24". Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Brandeis University . Retrieved June 18, 2024.
5. "Dorothy Rosenberg Prize Recipients". historians.org. American Historical Association . Retrieved June 18, 2024.
6. "Award Recipients". Association for Jewish Studies. Retrieved 2024-12-14.

External links

• Official website