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Marsha L. Rozenblit

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Professor, History
Affiliate Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

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Research Expertise

Europe
Jewish History
Modern History

 A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity ( SUNY Press,1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford University Press, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2017, with Jonathan Karp, she edited World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on how Jews in many regions coped with the problems of World War I, including patriotism, violence, and the need to create new identities in the nation states that succeeded the pre-war empires. She is currently working on a book on how Jews from the former Habsburg Monarchy who were lucky enough to flee Nazi Europe between 1938 and 1941, made or did not make new homes for themselves in the United States, Great Britain, and British Mandate Palestine (now Israel). Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, Jewish courtship and marriage in 1920s Vienna, and Jews and German culture in Moravia, 1848-1938. She has served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, and foundations.  She was Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland between 1998 and 2003.  From 2009 to 2011 she was president of the Association for Jewish Studies, and she was Vice President for Program of that organization between 2006 and 2009. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Publications

"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States". in Legacies of thee Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States: Ruptures and Continuities. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.

"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:
"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"

Mary Gluck, The Invisible Jewish Budapest (#3 ed., vol. 53, pp. 666-668).

Review: Mary Gluck, The Invisible Jewish Budapest

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:
Review: Mary Gluck, The Invisible Jewish Budapest

“Juden, deutsche Kultur und das Dilemma der nationalen Identität. Der Fall Mähren, 1848-1938,”. in Durchblicke: Horizonte jüdischer Kulturgeschichte (vol. 2017, pp. 111-145). Berlin: Neofils.

Jews, German Culture, and the Dilema of Jewish Nationalism

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:

Jews, German Culture, and the Dilema of Jewish Nationalism

World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

World War I and the Jews

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:
World War I and the Jews

“A Zionist Who Spoke Hebrew: Salo Baron in Vienna,”. in The Enduring Legacy of Salo W. Baron, (vol. 2017, pp. 99-114). Krakow: Jagellonian University Press.

Salo Baron in Vienna

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies | Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:
Salo Baron in Vienna

“The European Jewish World 1914-1919: What Changed?”. in World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States (pp. 32-55). New York: Berghahn Press.

“The European Jewish World 1914-1919: What Changed?”

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Dates:
“The European Jewish World 1914-1919: What Changed?”