Daniel Schwartz
Title — Assistant Professor of History
Address — 801 22nd St. NW #317, Washington D.C. 20052
Office — 801 22nd St. NW #317
Phone — (202) 994-2397
E-mail — dbs50@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Daniel Schwartz specializes in modern Jewish and European intellectual and cultural history. His first book, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, which traces the shifting image of the seventeenth-century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza in modern Jewish culture, will be published by Princeton University Press in Spring 2012. He is currently working on a new research project, a genealogy of the ghetto that traces its evolution as a word, concept, metaphor, and place in both Jewish history and beyond Jewish contexts as such. His research interests include Jewish historical consciousness, early modern and modern Jewish identities, and Jewish intellectuals. (complete cv)
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007.
Publications
Spinoza in Modern Jewish Culture: A Reader. Brandeis University Press, forthcoming.
"Spinoza: Hero, Infidel, Celebrity." The Jewish Daily Forward, 30 June 2006, 6.
Classes Taught
Hist 3001: The Jewish Intellectual
Hist 3060: Modern Jewish History
Hist 3820: History of Modern Israel
Hist 6005: History and Historian
Hist 3001: Bookmarks of Jewish History
Hist 3001: Jewish Civilization I
Hist 6005: History and Historians