Curriculum Vitae DR. PHILIPP LENHARD Department of Jewish History and Culture Ludwig-Maximilians-University Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 80539 Munich, Germany Phone: +49-89-21806769 Fax: +49-89-21805666 Email: philipp.lenhard@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Present Position Assistant Professor ( Wissenschaftlicher Assistent ), Department of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich Academic positions Since 4/2014 Assistant Professor ( Wissenschaftlicher Assistent ), Department of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich 4/2013 9/2013 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich 4/2012 9/2012 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Munich 1/2010 6/2010 Research Assistant, Martin Buber Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Cologne Education 1/2014 Ph.D. in Modern History and Philosophy at the University of Munich (with distinction) 1/2010 M.A. in Judaic Studies, Philosophy, and Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne
Professional Activities Since 1/2014 Staff of the Munich Journal of Jewish and Culture 2/2013 4/2013 Scholar in Residence at Charles University, Prague 1/2009 11/2011 Collaborator in the project Visual History Archive, FU Berlin Fellowships 2/2014 3/2014 Post-Doc-Fellow, International Doctorate Program Religious Cultures in 19 th and 20 th Century Europe (University of Munich/Charles University Prague) 2/2011 1/2014 Scholar of the International Doctorate Program Religious Cultures in 19 th and 20 th Century Europe (University of Munich/Charles University Prague), funded by the German Research Association (DFG) 10/2011 Leo-Baeck-Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (declined) 7/2007 8 /2007 DAAD Fellowship for the Overseas Student Program, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Languages German English French Modern Hebrew Spanish Latin Mother tongue Fluent Reading and spoken proficiency Reading and spoken proficiency ( Gimel ) Reading proficiency Basic knowledge ( Latinum ) 2
Memberships Association for Jewish Studies German Studies Association PUBLICATIONS Book Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland 1782 1848 (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014). [Nation or Religion? The Emergence of Modern Jewish Ethnicity in France and Germany, 1782 1848] Edited book Gegenaufklärung: Der postmoderne Beitrag zur Barbarisierung der Gesellschaft (Freiburg: Ça Ira 2011, 2 nd rev. ed. 2014) (with Alex Gruber). [Counter-Enlightenment: The Postmodern Contribution to the Barbarization of Society] Articles An Institution of Nazi Statesmanship: Friedrich Pollock's Theoretical Contribution to the Study of Anti-Semitism. In: New German Critique (forthcoming 2016). Von der Sondergeschichte zur integrierten Geschichte: Jüdische Geschichte im Schulunterricht. In: Münchner Beiträge zur Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 9, 1 (2015) (with Gregor Pelger and Mirjam Zadoff). [From a Secluded to an Integrated History: Jewish History in School Teaching] Jüdische Studien. In: Friedrich Jäger/Wolfgang Knöbl/Ute Schneider (eds.): Handbuch Moderneforschung (Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, forthcoming 2015). [Jewish Studies. In: Handbook for the Study of Modernity] Ein charakterloses Jagen nach Emancipation... Das Leben und Scheitern des jüdischen Revolutionärs Hermann Jellinek (1823 1848). In: Andreas B. Kilcher/Urs 3
Lindner (eds.): Zwischen Anpassung und Subversion: Sprache und Politik der Assimilation (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, forthcoming 2015). [ A spineless chase for emancipation Life and Failing of the Jewish Revolutionary Hermann Jellinek (1823-1848)] In den Marxschen Begriffen stimmt etwas nicht: Friedrich Pollock und der Anfang der Kritischen Theorie. In: Sans Phrase: Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik 5 (2014), 5 16. [ There is something wrong with Marx terminology. Friedrich Pollock and the Beginning of Critical Theory] Aufstand gegen das Gesetz: Zur Kritik des Neopaulinismus. In: Widerspruch: Münchner Zeitschrift für Philosophie 55 (2012), 31 46. [ Rebellion against the Law : Towards a Critique of Neo-Paulinianism] Assimilation als Untergang: Ludwig Gumplowicz Judentum und die Frage des Antisemitismus. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 64/2 (2012), 105 116. [Assimilation as a Demise: Ludwig Gumplowicz Jewishness and the Question of Anti-Semitism] Source Editions Friedrich Pollock: Political Antisemitism (1944). In: New German Critique (forthcoming 2016). Friedrich Pollock: Die bessere Ordnung (1941). In: Sans Phrase: Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik 5 (2014), 3 4. [The Better Order] Baruch Meyer/Jacob Meyer Jaffe/Michel Israel Speyer (eds.): Dibere Haberith, Altona 1819. In: Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg (ed.): Online Quellenedition Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart (forthcoming 2015). 4
Book Reviews Jack Jacobs: The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015). In: Einsicht: Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts 7, 13 (Spring 2015). Michael Wildt: Hitler s Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919 1939 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011). In: H-Antisemitism, H-Net Reviews. December 2013. Jay Geller: The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011). In: Medaon: Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung 10 (2012). Albert S. Lindemann/Richard S. Levy (eds.): Antisemitism: A History (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010). In: sehepunkte 11 (2011). Presentations (selection) Contesting Jewish Androcentrism: Gender Aspects in the Frankfurt Circumcision Debate of 1844. Workshop Gender Nation Emancipation. Women and Families in the Long Nineteenth Century in Italy and Germany, University of Munich, 17 April 2015. Max Horkheimer und Friedrich Pollock Geschichte einer Freundschaft. University of Munich, 9 October 2014. Von der jüdischen Nation zur israelitischen Glaubensgemeinschaft? Neuformulierungen jüdischer Ethnizität im späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Conference Strukturelle Bedingungen und Konfliktfelder religiöser Vergemeinschaftung, German Historical Institute Rome, 27 March 2014. Dialectics of Universalism: French and German Jews on Race and Nation, 1789-1848. 17th Annual Focus on German Studies Conference Wanna Race?: Constructions and 5
Contestations of Race in German Cultural History, University of Cincinnati, 19 October 2012. The Holy Bonds of Blood: Michael Sachs and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Ethnicity. PhD Workshop Experiences of Modern European Jews: National, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives, Skirball Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, 22 March 2012. Liebe als Einspruch: Über Nadeem Aslams Porträts islamischer Gesellschaften. Conference Die Kunst der Freiheit. Autonomie und Engagement nach Sartre und Adorno, French Institute Vienna, 2 October 2011. Zum Beginn des Rassediskurses unter deutschen und französischen Juden im 19. Jahrhundert. Workshop Von der jüdischen Rasse zu den jüdischen Genen? Stereotypen und moderne Forschung, Departement für Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften der ETH Zurich, 8 April 2011. Hermann Jellinek (1822-1848): Jude, Hegelianer, Revolutionär. Interdisziplinary Forum Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 11 February 2011. Dialectic of Universalism: French and German Jews on Race and Nation, 1789-1848. Max and Hilde Kochmann Summer School for PhD Students in European-Jewish History and Culture, University of Sussex, 13 July 2010. Teaching Summer 2010 Summer 2012 Summer 2013 Jewish Concepts of Community from the Enlightenment unto the Holocaust From Mount Sinai to New York City: Concepts of Jewishness throughout History Out of the Ghetto? Introduction into Early Modern Jewish History 6
Summer 2014 Summer 2014 Winter 2014/15 Winter 2014/15 Summer 2015 Summer 2015 Religion et patrie : The Jews in the French Revolution Jewish History in School Education: Didactic Concepts and Practical Applications History of the Jews in the United States of America Key Texts in Modern Jewish History Between Emancipation and Antisemitism: German Jews in the 19 th Century Social History of Jewish Poverty 7