Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf ( born 1947 ) is professor of history at the University of Maryland, specializing in the humanities and cultural history of Europe in the 20th century, especially in Germany.

His Ph. D. was awarded Herf in 1980 to Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Before he became a professor at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He has written essays for Time, The New Republic, and Partisan Review.

Jeffrey Herf, 2007 was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in the autumn.

Positions on the subject of Islam and fascism

In an interview with the weekly jungle world, Berlin, July 2010 Herf reports on a conference on " Arab Responses to Fascism and National Socialism " in Tel Aviv in May 2010. Therein he expresses the opinion that some scientists an Islamist anti-Semitism since the 20s not investigate and therefore do not want to recognize.

Criticism of Herf

Wolin writes in "The Chronicle " in 2009, the survival of the ultimate anti- religious Nazism in Arabia since 1945 has been very limited. Nasser is more of a Stalinist been as a Nazi fellow -traveler, despite Johann von Leers ' employment. The CIA has a lot of high Nazis continue to be employed without having to be alone thus become fascist. Gamal Abdel Nasser was certainly against the Muslim Brotherhood; he was Sayyid Qutb executed. Only in his later writings, especially "Our struggle with the jews " there is a clear Islamic - fascist link that was then taken up by al - Qaeda and other Salafi. Wolin says that Herf weighted too heavily the world of ideas; but the history of the Arab countries and the emergence of Osama bin Laden and al - Qaeda depend primarily on real events in this space, less of ideas and their propaganda by the Nazis before and after 1945, individual muftis and imams from. Especially Wahabism has much stronger result in a boom of the reactionary political Islamism, as the Mufti - Galani - Leers - line has ever managed.

Works

• Reactionary Modernism. Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the 3rd Reich. Cambridge UP 1985 ISBN 0521265665 ISBN 0521338336 Repr 1986 (online reading and searching )
• War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles. The Free Press, 1991
• Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Harvard UP, Cambridge MA 1997 ISBN 0674213033 in German: Two kinds of memory. The Nazi past in divided Germany. Propylaea, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3549056982

• In the vicious circle of madness. Review by Matthias Küntzel

• Review by Klaus Faber Nazi propaganda in the Arab world
• THE WORLD Jan. 2010 Benny Morris: Then Allah sent Adolf Hitler, with many quotations from the radio ( in German )
• Critical Review " The Chronicle " November 22, 2009: Richard Wolin: Herf 's misuses of History. in Engl

• Therein Angelika Timm: Ideology and " realpolitik ". East German attitudes towards Zionism and Israel, pp. 186-205