Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies
Department of History
Amherst College
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (2009) in History,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem
TEACHING POSITIONS
- 2013- Amherst College, FiveCollege Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies
- 2010-2013 University of Cincinnati, Department of Judaic Studies, Assistant Professor, Director of
Graduate Certificate
- 2009-2010 Tulane University, Jewish Studies Program. Visiting Assistant Professor
- 2003-2004 Hebrew University, Department of History. Lecturer
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Adi Gordon. On Jews and Other Nations: The Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971)
Adi Gordon. “In Palestine. In a Foreign Land:” The Orient. A German-Language Weekly between German
Exile and Aliyah.HebrewUniversity Magnes Press,Jerusalem, 2004 .
Edited Book
Adi Gordon (ed.), Brith Shalom and Bi-National Zionism: “The Arab Question” as a Jewish Question.
Carmel,Jerusalem, 2008 .
Selected Articles in Journals
“The City ofMan, the European Émigrés, and the Genesis of Postwar Conservative Thought,”
Religions 2012, 3 3, no. 3, pp. 681-698.
“The Need for West: Hans Kohn and the North AtlanticCommunity”, Journal of Contemporary History
XLVI/1 (January 2011), pp. 62-68.
“The Ideological Convert and the Mythology of Coherence: The Contradictory Hans Kohn and his
Multiple Metamorphoses”, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book LV (2010), pp. 273-293.
“Against Vox Populi: Arnold Zweig’s Struggle with Political Passions”, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche
Geschichte 38, pp. 133-147 (2010).
Selected Articles in Edited Books
“Nothing but a Disillusioned Love: Hans Kohn’s Break from the Zionist Movement,”
Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen (eds.). Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in
Hard Times,New York : Berghahn Books, 2013, pp. 117-142.
“Widersprüchliche Zugehörigkeiten: Arnold Zweig in Ostdeutschland”, Raphael Gross and Minika
Boll (eds.), „Ich staune, dass Sie in dieser Luft atmen können“: Jüdische Intellektuelle in Deutschland nach 1945,
2013, S. Fischer Verlag: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 171-204.
“German Exiles in the ‘Orient.’ The German-language Weekly ‘Orient’ (Haifa 1942-3) Between
German Exile and Zionist Aliya,” Placeless Topographies: Jewish Perspectives on the Literature of Exile (Conditio
Judaica, vol. 43), Benrhard Greiner (ed.), Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 2003, pp. 149-159.
