NCJSS Welcomes Daniel Schwartz

The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Daniel Schwartz, Professor of Modern Jewish History at George Washington University. Daniel B. Schwartz specializes in modern European and American Jewish intellectual, cultural, and urban history. He is the author of Ghetto: The History of a Word(link opens in a new window/tab), which traces the various and contested meanings of the word "ghetto" from sixteenth-century Venice to the present. His other books include Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy(link opens in a new window/tab) and The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image(link opens in a new window/tab), which was co-winner of the 2012 American Academy for Jewish Research's Salo W. Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish studies and a finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in history. He is currently working on a history of the modern Jewish intellectual in Europe and the United States as a social and cultural type, from the Dreyfus Affair in France at the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. His research interests include Jews and the city, Jewish historical consciousness, early modern and modern Jewish identities, Jewish secularism, Jewish socialism, and Jewish intellectuals.