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Jack L. Jacobs Personal Information: Office address: Department of Political Science John Jay College The City University of New York 524 West 59th Street New York, New York 10019 Office Telephone: 1-212-237-8191 E-mail: jjacobs@gc.cuny.edu Current Position: Professor of Political Science John Jay College and The Graduate Center The City University of New York Education: … As of … Protected by Akismet | He has delivered academic lectures in Australia, Austria, China, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, and Sweden. New York, NY, 10019212.237.8000, Copyright © 2020 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center, received a PhD from Columbia University and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to John Jay. Michael Löwy, New Politics, “Jack Jacobs’ The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism is a unique and valuable contribution to the secondary literature on the history of the Institute for Social Research and Critical Theory more generally … He demonstrates a firm command of the dauntingly extensive secondary literature on Critical Theory in both English and German … Even more impressive is the extensive primary source research Jacobs has conducted in a wide variety of archives in Europe, the United States, and Israel.” In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland—the largest in Europe—was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. Read more, Tania G. Levey
Faculty Book: Jason Kandybowicz. “The relationships, past and present, between Jews and the political left remain of abiding interest both to the academic community and to the public. Yes I would recommend it to people who are interested in this subject. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender. Jacobs’s style of presentation, I would argue, bears testimony not only to the commonplace wisdom that authors are never entirely in control of their texts, but also to Jacobs’s many years of close engagement of Critical Theory and his own deep-seated affinity with its concerns.” Lecture, "The Frankfurt School on Israel," U. of Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhJS_OY9TM. During the Fall of 2018 he served as a Visiting Fellow of the British Academy and as an Honorary Research Fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London. Read more, Ashley Dawson
A geshikhte fun bund,", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfoLB2Mpk-A. Host: Chris Jansing. It also contains fresh studies of canonical figures, including Gershom Scholem, Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber, examines the affiliations of Jews to prominent institutions, and calls into question hitherto widely-held presumptions. -Thomas Wheatland, The German Quarterly, “To anyone seriously interested in the questions Jacobs raises … his book offers a careful and thought-provoking engagement of the relevant material. He has delivered academic lectures in Australia, Austria, China, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, and Sweden.
-Martin Jay, The German Quarterly, “… Jacobs succeeds in teaching us something new, and, more importantly, something quite valuable. He is the author of On Socialists and “The Jewish Question” after Marx (1992) and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at …
Their books range from award-winning academic treatises to best-sellers.
Works by Professor Jacobs have appeared in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Yiddish as well as in English. Professor Jacobs was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University in 1998, the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Joshua B. Freeman
He has been the recipient of grants from the Forward Association, the Arthur Zygielbaum Memorial Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources. He is the author of On Socialists and “The Jewish Question” after Marx (1992) and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at One Hundred (2001). Professor Jacobs was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University in 1998, the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Powered by CUNY, Political Science | The Graduate Center, CUNY, Philipp Lenhard, Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, “… an outstanding piece of scholarship … Well documented … and well argued, it is certainly destined to become the main reference for any future research on the questions involved … important and insightful.”, “Jack Jacobs’ The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism is a unique and valuable contribution to the secondary literature on the history of the Institute for Social Research and Critical Theory more generally … He demonstrates a firm command of the dauntingly extensive secondary literature on Critical Theory in both English and German … Even more impressive is the extensive primary source research Jacobs has conducted in a wide variety of archives in Europe, the United States, and Israel.”, “… Jacobs succeeds in teaching us something new, and, more importantly, something quite valuable.