Marsha L. Rozenblit

 A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity ( SUNY Press,1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford University Press, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2017, with Jonathan Karp, she edited World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on how Jews in many regions coped with the problems of World War I, including patriotism, violence, and the need to create new identities in the nation states that succeeded the pre-war empires. She is currently working on a book on how Jews from the former Habsburg Monarchy who were lucky enough to flee Nazi Europe between 1938 and 1941, made or did not make new homes for themselves in the United States, Great Britain, and British Mandate Palestine (now Israel). Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, Jewish courtship and marriage in 1920s Vienna, and Jews and German culture in Moravia, 1848-1938. She has served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, and foundations.  She was Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland between 1998 and 2003.  From 2009 to 2011 she was president of the Association for Jewish Studies, and she was Vice President for Program of that organization between 2006 and 2009. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.