Jay Howard Geller

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Prof. Dr. Jay Howard Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University. His research explores the history of Jews in modern Germany, with particular focus on Jewish politics, identity, and urban life. He has written extensively on German-Jewish history, including Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945–1953 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (Cornell University Press, 2019; German edition: Die Scholems, Suhrkamp, 2020). Geller has co-edited several volumes, including Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (University of Michigan Press, 2016, with Leslie Morris) and Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2020, with Michael Meng).

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