James Loeffler is an American historian. He holds the Felix Posen Professorship in Modern Jewish History at

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and is co-editor of ''

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''.

Education

Loeffler studied social studies at Harvard University, graduating with an A.B. ''magna cum laude'' in 1996. He then studied history at Columbia University, earning an M.A. in 2000 and a Ph.D. with distinction in 2006. Loeffler did postgraduate studies in Jewish religious and political thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies.

Research

Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at

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. His book ''Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century'' received the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the

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and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the

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