- Richard S. Levy
Richard Simon Levy is a professor of Modern German History at the
University of Illinois at Chicago . He is most noted for his contributions to history in debunking several antisemitic myths, as well as uncovering many others. Levy has been featured on several TV documentaries, particularly ones concerningThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion , including "A Deadly Deception", which aired on the History Channel May 11, 1999.Works
Books
*"The downfall of the anti-Semitic political parties in imperial Germany" (1975),
Yale University Press . ISBN 0-300-01803-7.
*"Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts" (1990),D.C. Heath . ISBN 0-669-24340-X.
*"A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1995), University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-9245-7.
*"Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution" (2005). ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-444-X.Articles
o "A Lie and a Libel: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Recent History," in L. J. Greenspoon, ed., Representations of Jews Through the Ages (Omaha: Creighton U. Press, 1996), pp. 231-43
o "Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Germany, 1819-1938," in Christhard Hoffmann, et al., eds., Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 185-202
Book Reviews
o Alan Steinweis, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1993) in GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW 18 (1995): 176-77
o David Blackbourn, The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), reviewed for H-German, September 9, 1998
o Michael Brenner, The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press, 1996) in JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 70 (September 1998): 747-48
o Dirk Walter, Antisemitische Kriminalität und Gewalt: Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik (Bonn, 1999) in JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 72 (December 2000): 1060-62
o Olaf Blaschke, Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich (Göttingen, 1997) in AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (February 2001): 278-79
o Till van Rahden, Juden und andere Breslauer. Die Beziehungen zwischen Juden, Protestanten und Katholiken in einer deutschen Grossstadt von 1860 bis 1925 (Göttingen, 2000), Reviewed for H-German, April 21, 2001
o William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2003) in CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY 28/3 (2005): 73-74
Awards and Positions
* Humanities Institute Fellow, 1992-93
* Fulbright Summer fellowship, 1996
* Shirley Bill Outstanding Teacher award 1999
* Fulbright Senior Professor Sant'Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research, Pisa, Italy for winter semester 2001
* Silver Circle Award 2004External links
* [http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/Levy.html Richard Levy's UIC Faculty Webpage] .
* [http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73728&browseCategoryId=&location=&parentcatid=&subcatid= "A Deadly Deception" DVD]
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