John M. Efron

Koret Professor
Office Hours: 
Monday 2-4
2217 Dwinelle
(510) 643-8887
Education: 

B.A., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1979)
M.A., New York University (1981)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1991)

Research Interests: 

 Modern Jewish History; Cultural and Social history of German Jewry

Representative Publications: 

The Jews: A History, with Matthias Lehmann and Steven Weitzman (Prentice Hall, 2009; second edition, forthcoming 2012)

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)

Courses

Semester Course Title Syllabus
Spring 2013 178 History of the Holocaust
Spring 2013 280B.004 Ancient Israel in the Modern European Imagination
Fall 2013 C175B Jewish Civilization: Modern Period
Spring 2012 280/285B.004 The Jewish Body
Fall 2012 C175B Jewish Civilization: Modern Period