Department Faculty

“My main interests are in several fields: German history, especially the history of exterminationist fantasies and mentalities - and the phenomenon of collusion by major cultural and artistic figures during the Third Reich; European intellectual history, including the mentalities of intellectual and religious conversion - and the history of science; and Jewish History (history of Zionism and Israel, and of antisemitism. In my work and teaching, my general approach is to integrate emotion and sensibility with political and intellectual history. My Current book projects include: Antisemitisms; The Burning Book (The Talmud in the History of Antisemitism); Copenhagen 1941 (Stories of the Atomic Bomb); Wagner to Hitler; Ausrottung (History of a Fantasy and a Reality); Faust in the Third Reich.”