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Joshua Zimmerman

Joshua
D.
Zimmerman

Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History; Professor of History

zimmerm@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6855

Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room#506

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#228

BA, University of California at Santa Cruz,
MA, University of California at Los Angeles,
PhD, Brandeis University,

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman is an associate professor of history, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History. He received his PhD in comparative history from Brandeis University.

His interests include East European Jewish history, modern Europe and Russia/Eastern Europe, and nationalism.

Zimmerman was Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC in 2011-2012. He has been a Skirball Vising Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a Fulbright Scholar at Warsaw University.

He is the author of THE POLISH UNDERGROUND AND THE JEWS, 1939-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2017),  POLES, JEWS AND THE POLITICS OF NATIONALITY: THE BUND AND THE POLISH SOCIALIST PARTY IN LATE TSARIST RUSSIA, 1892-1914 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) and editor of two volumes: JEWS IN ITALY UNDER FASCIST AND NAZI RULE, 1922-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and CONTESTED MEMORIES: POLES AND JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERMATH (Rutgers University Press, 2003).

zimmerm@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6855

Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room#506

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#228

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Spring 2018
Destruct of Eur Jewry-1933-45
JHI 6484

 

History of Modern Russia
HIS 2154

 

History of Modern Russia
HIST 2154

 

Fall 2017
Holocaust
HIST 2141

 

The Holocaust
HIS 2141

 

Varieties of Jew Nationalism
JHI 6506

 

Spring 2017
Jews Eastern Europe: 1914-Pres
JHI 5441

 

The Transformations of Europe
HIS 1102