Professor
Koret Professor of Jewish History
Education
BA, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1979)
MA, New York University (1981)
PhD, Columbia University (1991)
Research Interests
Modern Jewish History; Cultural and Social history of German Jewry
Representative Publications
German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (Princeton University Press, 2016)
The Jews: A History, with Matthias Lehmann and Steven Weitzman (Prentice Hall, 2009; second edition, 2013)
Medicine and the German Jews: A History (Yale University Press, Spring 2001)
Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ed., with Elisheva Carlebach and David N. Myers (University Press of New England, 1998)
Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de Siécle Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)
