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 17吃瓜在线's 2017 Scholar-Teacher of the Year.
- See Also
- History Department
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Partnerships & Affiliations
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American Historical Association
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Association for Jewish Studies
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Society for French Historical Studies
Co-President