Jeremy Varon

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Jeremy Peter Varon (born 1967) [1] is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. [2] He is the author of the books, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] and The New Life: The Jewish Students of Postwar Germany (2014). [8] [9] [10] He cofounded and coedits The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. [2]

Varon completed a B.A. in history at Brown University in 1989. He earned a M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in History at Cornell University, under doctoral advisor Dominick LaCapra. [2]

Varon was a historian at Drew University. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT - The Reminiscences of Jeremy Varon" (PDF). Columbia Center for Oral History. Columbia University. 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. 1 2 3 "Jeremy Varon". The New School for Social Research. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  3. ↑ Jasper, James M. (2006). "Review of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies". American Journal of Sociology. 111 (5): 1585–1587. doi:10.1086/504651. ISSN   0002-9602. JSTOR   10.1086/504651.
  4. ↑ Marwick, Arthur (2005). "Review of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies". The International History Review. 27 (3): 692–694. ISSN   0707-5332. JSTOR   40109667.
  5. ↑ Hughes, Michael L. (December 2005). "Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. By Jeremy Varon. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2004. Pp. xii + 394. $21.95. ISBN 0-520-24119-3". Central European History. 38 (4): 712–714. doi:10.1017/S0008938900006014. ISSN   1569-1616. S2CID   144386278.
  6. ↑ Ross, George (2007). "Review of Bringing The War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies". German Politics & Society. 25 (4 (85)): 115–119. ISSN   1045-0300. JSTOR   23742799.
  7. ↑ Gitlin, Todd (2005-10-01). "Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 394. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95". The American Historical Review. 110 (4): 1213–1214. doi: 10.1086/ahr.110.4.1213 . ISSN   0002-8762.
  8. ↑ Kauders, A. (2017-02-01). "The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany, by Jeremy Varon". The English Historical Review. 132 (554): 197–198. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew366. ISSN   0013-8266.
  9. ↑ Brenner, Michael (2016-04-01). "Jeremy Varon. The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany". The American Historical Review. 121 (2): 675–676. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.2.675. ISSN   0002-8762.
  10. ↑ Geller, Jay Howard (September 2015). "The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany. By Jeremy Varon. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 358. Cloth $34.99. ISBN 978-0814339619". Central European History. 48 (3): 444–445. doi:10.1017/S0008938915000722. ISSN   0008-9389. S2CID   151945124.
  11. ↑ Issenberg, Sasha (2008-01-26). "McCain, an Iraq hawk, gets anti-war votes". The Atlanta Constitution. pp. A10. Retrieved 2021-09-20.


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