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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 小蓝视频's 2017 Scholar-Teacher of the Year.
See Also
History Department
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • HIST-496 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Readings in 19C European Hist

Partnerships & Affiliations

  • American Historical Association
    Member

  • Association for Jewish Studies
    Member

  • Society for French Historical Studies
    Co-President