1. Early life

2. Academic career

3. Center For Jewish History

4. New Israel Fund

5. Published books
     Authored    Edited  

6. References

7. External links

Early life

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Myers received his A.B. cum laude from Yale College in 1982.^[2] He commenced graduate studies in Jewish history at Tel Aviv University (1982–84) before moving on to study medieval Jewish thought at Harvard University (1984–85).^[2] He then moved to Columbia University, where he worked under the supervision of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Myers received his Ph.D. with distinction in 1991.^[2]

Academic career

Myers joined the faculty of the UCLA History Department in 1991 as a lecturer and 1992 as an assistant professor. He published his first book, Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History, in 1995. Myers served for ten years as the director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and, from 2010–15, as the Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the UCLA History Department.^[5] He also has served since 2003 as the co-editor, along with Elliott Horowitz and Natalie Dohrmann, of the Jewish Quarterly Review.^[3] He is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.^[4] He received the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA in 2015.^[2]

Recently, he has been engaged in research on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York.^[5]

Center For Jewish History

In 2017, Myers was appointed CEO of Center for Jewish History.

Following Myers' appointment, some in the Jewish community objected to his activism in organizations supportive of Israeli-Palestinian peace and co-existence, while simultaneously hundreds of Jewish historians responded by expressing their support for Myers. Those who demanded his resignation included Israeli Knesset Member Bezalel Smotrich,^[6] as well as the Zionist Organization of America and others.^[7]

^{[8][9][10][11]} The right-wing Middle East Forum opined "Myers may present a moderate façade, but his academic & political affiliations expose his radical core."

^[12] According to the Forward, "the campaign against Myers appears to have shaken the CJH," though Myers has stated that the protests were only a nuisance early in his tenure and were not the reason for his decision to leave the Center. “After the first two unpleasant months, I had a great time here,” Myers said.

Despite the attacks by groups associated with the Israeli right, Jewish studies scholars in the United States largely rallied behind Myers. In an op-ed defending Myers, Brandeis professors Jonathan Sarna and Rabbi David Ellenson wrote, "The writings of David Myers indisputably fall well within the scholarly mainstream of Jewish life and they are unquestionably supportive of Israel’s basic right to exist."^[1]

Stepped down from this position in August 2018, returning to UCLA full time. “This is the result of months of deliberation spent on planes going back and forth and really asking myself, Where do I want to be in life?” he said.^[1]

New Israel Fund

He is a board member of the New Israel Fund, an instructor for the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and writes frequently on matters of contemporary Jewish concern.^[13]

Published books

Authored

• Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 {{ISBN|978-0195098426}}
• Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 {{ISBN|978-0691146607}}
• Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 2008 {{ISBN|978-1584657361}}
• Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016 {{ISBN|9780199730988}}
• The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.  {{ISBN|9780300228939}}

Edited

• David N. Myers and William V. Rowe, eds. From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community, introduction by D. N. Myers. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 1997 {{ISBN|9780940866720}}
• David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman, eds. The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians, introduction by D. N. Myers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998 {{ISBN|9780300191530}}
• Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers, eds. Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998 {{ISBN|978-0874518719}}
• Richard Hovannisian and David N. Myers, eds. Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999 {{ISBN|978-0788506048}}
• Michael Brenner and David N. Myers, eds. Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen. Munich: Beck Verlag, 2002 {{ISBN|978-3406488788}}
• David N. Myers et al. eds. Acculturation and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience between Integration and Exclusion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 {{ISBN|9780802098511}}
• David N. Myers and Alexander Kaye, eds. The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1611684872}}
• Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers, eds. Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Essays in Honor of David Ellenson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014 {{ISBN|9780814338599}}
• David N. Myers, eds. The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act. Oakland, CA, 2018.  {{ISBN|978-0520297456}} https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.50/read/#epubcfi(/6/2[id001]!/4/1:

References

External links

• David N. Myers official web site

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