Rate My Professor Malachi Hacohen

His research focuses on intellectual history and Jewish European history, particularly Central Europe, including social theory, political philosophy, rabbinic culture from Midrash to Kabbalah and halakhic responsa, the Central European Jewish intelligentsia, nation-state versus empire, Jewish-Christian relations, science and culture in Vienna, international networks of European Jewish émigrés, and trans-Atlantic Cold War liberalism. Hacohen's book Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2000) received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association in 2002 and the Victor Adler Staatspreis from Austria in 2003. His Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2019) addresses pivotal themes in the field. He has published numerous articles in leading journals, such as "Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism: Karl Popper, Jewish Identity, and ‘Central European Culture’" in Journal of Modern History (1999), "The Strange Fact That the State of Israel Exists: The Cold War Liberals Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism" in Jewish Social Studies (2009), and "Typology and the Holocaust: Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe" in Religions (2012). Hacohen held the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS in 2003-2004, was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in 2006-2007, National Humanities Center in 2002-2003, IFK Vienna in 2001, and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2016-2017, along with Fulbright, Mellon, Whiting, and several Duke teaching awards including the Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence in 1996-1997.