David N. Myers
Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History, UCLA

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including most recently American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022) with Nomi Stolzenberg.

 

Selected Publications

Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis, 2008)

Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2017)

The Stakes of Jewish History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life (Yale, 2018)