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Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park. He has published extensively on 20th century European and German history. His recent works include: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009), and The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust(Harvard University Press, 2006). He is currently completing a history of the antagonism to Israel on the part of Communist East Germany and the West German radical left from the Six Day War to the collapse of the East German regime in 1989-90.

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Robert Wistrich (1945-2015): In memoriam

The news of the death of Robert Wistrich on May 19 leaves his colleagues and friends in Israel and around the world stunned and deeply saddened. On the basis of an astonishing record of scholarly productivity since the 1970s, he…

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Historians Reject Anti-Israel Resolutions

On January 4, 2015, at the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York, the members in attendance voted 144 to 51 against further consideration of resolutions denouncing Israel. The resolutions had been introduced by the Historians Against…

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A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges

On July 31, 2014, a group of left-leaning historians called “Historians Against the War” posted an open letter to President Obama denouncing Israel’s actions in the Gaza War and calling for a cut-off of American military assistance to Israel. On…

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Jeffrey Herf: Gefahr Iran oder: Schweigen der Antifaschisten

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3322551 Eine frühere Fassung dieses Textes wurde im Dezember 2007 in der Welt veröffentlicht. Seitdem ist deutlich geworden, dass die Bemühungen der Vereinten Nationen, der Europäischen Union und der Vereinigten Staaten, den Iran von seinen Plänen, die Fähigkeit zum Bau…

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