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Category Archives: David N. Myers
The Hero System of Professor David N. Myers
His teacher stood in the rubble and called it final. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) argued in Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory that modern critical history broke the link between the Jewish people and its past, that the archive replaced … Continue reading
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The David Myers Voice
David N. Myers (b. 1960) writes and speaks in the register of the liberal Jewish public moralist. The voice belongs to a man who has spent forty years inside the seminar room and the synagogue board meeting, and it carries … Continue reading
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Who Is Served And Who Is Hurt By The Frame That Hitler Was The Ultimate Evil?
Why is the catalyzing force of Hitler’s antisemitism is treated as a historical ultimate rather than a phenomenon with its own causes in German politics, economic crisis, the Versailles settlement, racial science, and the broader European anti-Jewish current? Those causes … Continue reading
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Between Zakhor and the Editor’s Desk: What Yerushalmi and Shapiro Reveal About David N. Myers
In 1980, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009), a professor of Jewish history at Columbia University, gave four lectures at the University of Washington in Seattle that became the 1982 book, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. The work rests on a … Continue reading
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David Myers & The Neutralization Theory of Hatred
UCLA historian David N. Myers spends his career mapping how Jewish communities build and police collective self-understanding. The Sell paper gives a functional theory of one of the forces that does the policing. Hatred, on this account, is not an … Continue reading
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History as Ideology: The Case of David N. Myers, Critical-Zionist Historian Par Excellence
I To readers of American Jewish intellectual life, the name David N. Myers is synonymous with a sophisticated critical engagement with Zionist historiography from within the Jewish studies profession. Myers has devoted four decades to exposing the ideological saturation of … Continue reading
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Matt Welch: A Life Against the Emergency State
Matthew Lee Welch is born July 31, 1968 in Bellflower, California, and grows up in Long Beach. He attends UC Santa Barbara and leaves without a degree. Through his mother, Mary Bobbitt Townsend, he descends from Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. … Continue reading
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Resisting Defeat: Naturalism and Its Discontents in Contemporary Orthodox Thought
We need a 2026 version of David N. Myers’ 2003 book, Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. First, the specific analytical framework Myers deployed in Resisting History. His four thinkers (Cohen, Rosenzweig, Strauss, Breuer) were not rejecting … Continue reading
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What Then Shall We Do: The Work Myers Left
Historian David N. Myers has inquired into the tension between history and memory under Yerushalmi’s long shadow, the invention of national historiography under Zionism, the recovery of suppressed diaspora-nationalist voices like Simon Rawidowicz, the institutional forces shaping Jewish studies as … Continue reading
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Between Archive and Advocacy: The Career of David N. Myers – Part One
Part Two. David N. Myers, born in 1960 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA. His career spans more than three decades and encompasses Zionist historiography, German-Jewish thought, diaspora nationalism, and American … Continue reading
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