Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park, and author most recently of ‘Israel’s Moment’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

Jeffrey Herf

2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth

Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians.

Jeffrey Herf

13 Sep 2022 · 7 min read