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.
Education
Loeffler studied Social Studies at Harvard University, graduated as A.B. magna cum laude 1996. Then he studied history at Columbia University were he graduated as M.A. in 2000 and as Ph.D. with Distinction in 2006. Postgraduate Studies in Jewish Religious and Political Thought, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Inter-University Jewish Studies Fellow) and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies (Dorot Fellow), 1996-1997.
Research
Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University. His book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, was recipient of the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies.
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
- "James Loeffler". jhu.edu. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- "CV" (PDF). University of Virginia. August 2021. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- "CV" (PDF). Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science. 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- "Fellows 2023–24". Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Brandeis University. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- "Dorothy Rosenberg Prize Recipients". historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- "Award Recipients". Association for Jewish Studies. Retrieved 2024-12-14.