Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park where, since 2000, he has taught Modern European, especially German history in the twentieth century. His publications include Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Radical Left, 1967-1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), published in Germany by Wallstein Verlag in 2019 as Unerklärte Kriege gegen Israel; Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009; The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006), and Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984). In 2017 with Anthony McElligott, he co-edited Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan). His book Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in early 2022.