Lisa Leff Professor History
- Degrees
- PhD University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Oberlin College - Bio
- Lisa Leff is a historian of European and Jewish history, specializing in the history of Jews in France. She is the author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth Century France (2006), Colonialism and the Jews (2017) and The Archive Thief: the Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (2015), which received the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature. She was named 猫咪社区app University's 2017 Scholar-Teacher of the Year.
- See Also
- History Department
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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HIST-496 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Readings in 19C European Hist
Partnerships & Affiliations
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猫咪社区app Historical Association
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Association for Jewish Studies
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Society for French Historical Studies
Co-President