Daniel Schwartz
Daniel Schwartz
Professor
Modern Jewish, Intellectual
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801 22nd St NW
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About
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, 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 and The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, 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.
- Early Modern Europe
- Modern Europe
- Early Modern World
- Jewish History
- Modern U.S.
- Urban History
HIST 2050: History of Jewish Civilization: From the Bible to Spinoza
HIST 2060: Modern Jewish History
HIST 2061: The Ghetto: History of a Concept
HIST 3001: The Jewish Intellectual
HIST 3001: Bookmarks of Jewish History
HSIT 6005: History and Historians
Ghetto: The History of a Word. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2019.
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
"Spinoza: Hero, Infidel, Celebrity." The Jewish Daily Forward, 30 June 2006, 6.
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007