Background
Jeffrey Herf was born on April 24, 1947.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In 1969 Jeffrey Herf received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Buffalo, New York, United States
In 1971 Jeffrey Herf obtained a Master of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
In 1981 Jeffrey Herf received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from Brandeis University.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In 1969 Jeffrey Herf received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Buffalo, New York, United States
In 1971 Jeffrey Herf obtained a Master of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
In 1981 Jeffrey Herf received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from Brandeis University.
(In this book, Herf examines conservative trends in the We...)
In this book, Herf examines conservative trends in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich while focusing on "the paradox of the embrace of technology by nontechnical intellectuals who were the inheritors of irrationalist and romantic tradition." Herf attempts to dispel the assumption that the rationality of engineers, and scientists in general, makes them immune to ideologies based on emotional (and therefore irrational) appeals.
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1984
(This book is an account of the West German euromissile de...)
This book is an account of the West German euromissile debate of the 1970s and 1980s.
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1991
(A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, ...)
A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how, and how differently, the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.
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1997
(The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti...)
The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together the diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. Here we find an original and haunting exposition of the ways in which Hitler legitimized war and genocide to his own people, as necessary to destroy an allegedly omnipotent Jewish foe. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.
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2006
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Herf explores the intellectual, political, and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam. Pro-Nazi Arab exiles in wartime Berlin, including Haj el-Husseini and Rashid el-Kilani, collaborated with the Nazis in constructing their Middle East propaganda campaign. By integrating the political and military history of the war in the Middle East with the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the propagandistic diffusion of Nazi ideology, Herf offers the most thorough examination to date of this important chapter in the history of World War II. Importantly, he also shows how the anti-Semitism promoted by the Nazi propaganda effort contributed to the anti-Semitism exhibited by adherents of radical forms of Islam in the Middle East today.
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2009
(Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antago...)
Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.
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2016
(Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines t...)
Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "Holocaust inversion" in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus offers both a historical and contemporary perspective. This volume includes observations by leading scholars, delivering powerful, even controversial essays by scholars who are reporting from the ‘frontline.’ It offers a discussion on the relationship between Christianity and Islam, as well as the historical and contemporary issues of antisemitism in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. This book explores how all of these issues contribute consciously or otherwise to contemporary antisemitism. The chapters of this volume do not necessarily provide a unity of argument – nor should they. Instead, they expose the plurality of positions within the academy and reflect the robust discussions that occur on the subject.
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2017
Jeffrey Herf was born on April 24, 1947.
In 1969 Jeffrey Herf received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1971 he obtained a Master of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1981 Herf received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from Brandeis University.
Jeffrey Herf was a lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University from 1981 to 1985. He taught at the College of the Holy Cross from 1986 to 1987. Herf worked in the Department of Strategy at Naval War College from 1987 to 1988. He taught in the Department of Political Science at the Emory University from 1989 to 1990. Herf served as an associate professor at the Ohio University from 1996 to 1999 and a professor from 1999 to 2000. In 2003 he was appointed a professor at University of Maryland, College Park.
Jeffrey Herf is an internationally renowned scholar on modern German history. He has published extensively on Germany during the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and on West and East Germany during the Cold War. His best known books are "Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys" and "Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich".
(A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, ...)
1997(Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antago...)
2016(Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines t...)
2017(In this book, Herf examines conservative trends in the We...)
1984(The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti...)
2006(Herf explores the intellectual, political, and cultural c...)
2009(This book is an account of the West German euromissile de...)
1991Jeffrey Herf is a member of Phi Betta Kappa.
