The Faculty
Dr Lars Fischer
Academic Director, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR, Woolf Institute)
Cambridge CB5 8BJ
Biography:
Lars Fischer was educated at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) and UCL. Before coming to Cambridge as Academic Director of the CJCR he held lectureships in Modern European History at King's College London and German History at UCL.
Subject groups/Research projects
Teaching
Course Director, MSt in The Study of Jewish-Christian Relations
Supervisor for History of Political Thought from C.1700 to C.1890 and Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought since c.1890
Other Professional Activities
Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity
Honorary Research Associate, Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department, UCL
Secretary and Bulletin Editor, British Association for Jewish Studies
Fellow and Councillor, Royal Historical Society
Review section editor, East European Jewish Studies
Contributing review editor, Biography
Key Publications
The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (paperback 2010).
ed. with Francois Guesnet and Helen Klier: John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882. Cambridge Uniersity Press, 2011.
Other Publications
'Anti-“Philosemitism” and Anti-Antisemitism in Imperial Germany,' in Adam Sutcliffe, Jonathan Karp (eds.), Philosemitism in History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 170–189.
[Review article] The Non-Jewish Question and Other “Jewish Questions” in Modern Germany (and Austria), in Journal of Modern History 82, 4 (2010), 876–901.
[Review article] Continuity and Discontinuity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German History, in Canadian Journal of History 45, 3 (2010), 565–588.
[Review article] After the "Strauss wars", in East European Jewish Affairs 40, 1 (2010), 61–79.
The Social Democratic response to antisemitism in Imperial Germany. The case of the Handlungsgehilfen, in Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 54 (2009), 151–170.
[Review article] Contextualizing Fred Wander’s “The Seventh Well”, in East European Jewish Affairs 39, 1 (2009), 107–119.
[Review Article] Public Knowledge of the Shoah in Nazi Germany, in Holocaust Studies 14, 3 (2008), 142–162.
Whither Pogromshchina – Historiographical Synthesis or Deconstruction? in East European Jewish Affairs 38, 3 (2008), 303–320.
[Review article] Carl Schmitt: a scholarly Nazi, in Political Quarterly 79, 3 (2008), 454–458.
Professor John Klier, 1944–2007, in Slavonic and East European Review 86, 1 (2008), 111–114.
Review article on antisemitism and modernity in East European Jewish Affairs 37, 2 (2007), 249–255.
Hegel in Support of Jewish Emancipation: A Deliberate Political Act? in Owl of Minerva 37, 2 (2006), 127–157.