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| Herf was the George Herbert Walker Bush / Axel Springer Fellow at the ], Germany, for Fall 2007. | Herf was the George Herbert Walker Bush / Axel Springer Fellow at the ], Germany, for Fall 2007. | ||
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| * ''Nazi Propaganda For the Arab World,'' Yale University Press, 2009. | |||
| * “Western Strategy and Public Discussion: The "Double Decision" Makes Sense”. 52 (Summer 1982). New York: Telos Press. | * “Western Strategy and Public Discussion: The "Double Decision" Makes Sense”. 52 (Summer 1982). New York: Telos Press. | ||
| * ''Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich'' (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in ], ], ], ] and ] translation. | * ''Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich'' (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in ], ], ], ] and ] translation. | ||
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Jeffrey Herf (born 1947) is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany.
Herf received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1980. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has published essays in The New Republic, Die Zeit, Partisan Review and elsewhere.
In his 1984 book, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, Herf coined the term “reactionary modernism” to describe the mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past - a highly technological romanticism - which was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism.
Herf was the George Herbert Walker Bush / Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.
Works
- Nazi Propaganda For the Arab World, Yale University Press, 2009.
- “Western Strategy and Public Discussion: The "Double Decision" Makes Sense”. Telos 52 (Summer 1982). New York: Telos Press.
- Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish translation.
- War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (The Free Press, 1991) examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War.
- Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997). It was the co-winner of the Charles Frankel Prize of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London in 1996. In 1998 it received the George Lewis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.
- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006). The work examines the Nazi regime's radical anti-Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds, an explanatory framework, and effort to legitimate mass murder.
External links
- Herf bio at University of Maryland's site
- The "New World Order": From Unilateralism to Cosmopolitanism by Herf
- (http://www.americanacademy.de)
- Divided Memory
- The Jewish Enemy
- "An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany," TELOS 144 (Fall 2008): 8-37
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