Department of History

Mitchell B. Hart received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 1994. He teaches courses on modern Jewish history, modern Germany, the history of racial thought, and anti-Semitism. He is the author of Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Healthy Jew (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and has edited Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940 (Brandeis, 2011) and Jewish Blood: Metaphor and Reality in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (Routledge, 2009). He is co-editor, with Tony Michels, of the Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 8: The Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust, co-edited with Nina Caputo (Indiana University Press, 2019).