Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies at American University and professor of Jewish history and culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. His many books include In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea and A Short History of the Jews (both Princeton).
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution and the Rise of Nazism explores the great variety of roles played by Munich's Jews in those years, putting to rest any simple characterization of pre-World War II German Jewry. ---Robert Siegel, Moment Magazine In his excellent new book, the noted German Jewish historian Michael Brenner explains and analyses how and why Munich became the bedrock of Nazism. ---Colin Shindler, Jewish Chronicle Michael Brenner. . . provides important lessons which might help thwart the ongoing collapse of democracies across the world. . . . the book is a timely lesson on how it's imperative to shake up people gullible enough to fall into the trap of manufactured lies and give their unequivocal allegiance to forces that silently work towards genocidal politics and the weakening of the fabric of constitutional democracy. As democracies are imperilled, Brenner's relevant account of the anti-Semitic discourse that underpinned the early years of Hitler's quest for power becomes a wake-up call. ---Shelley Walia, The Hindu