Rate My Professor David Myers

Myers has written extensively on modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history, with research interests encompassing the history of Jewish historiography, Zionism, and the history of history. His authored books include Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (Oxford University Press, 1995), Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (Princeton University Press, 2003), Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis University Press, 2008), Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life (Yale University Press, 2018), and American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, co-authored with Nomi M. Stolzenberg (Princeton University Press, 2022), which won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. He has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, such as The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians (Yale University Press, 1998), Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases (Scholars Press, 1999), The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (University Press of New England, 2013), and The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (2018). Since 2003, he has been co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. An elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Myers teaches courses on Jewish history and the history of history at UCLA.