Matthias B. Lehmann is professor of modern Jewish history at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies. Before joining the University of Cologne, he served as Teller Chair in Jewish History at the University of California (2012-2023) and at Indiana Unifersity Bloomington (2002-2012). His research focuses on modern Jewish history in a transnational perspective, history and culture of the Sephardic diaspora, and the history of Jewish philanthropy. He is the author of The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2022), winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Associaton for Jewish Studies, Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford, 2014), Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (Indiana, 2005), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and co-editor with Jessica Marglin of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana, 2020). Lehmann is an elected member of the American Academy of Jewish Research and co-editor of the Studia Judaica series published by De Gruyter.

Email: mlehma14[at]uni-koeln.de

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