Matthias B. Lehmann (Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin) is the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2022), as well the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (Indiana, 2005), runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award, and Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford, 2014). He is co-author, together with John Efron and Steve Weitzman, of The Jews: A History (Routledge, third ed., 2019), and co-editor, with Jessica Marglin, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana, 2020). Since 2009, he also edits, together with Harvey Goldberg, a book series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies for Indiana University Press.
Books in order of publication:
Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture – 2005
Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford, 2014).
The Jews: A History (Routledge, third ed., 2019)
Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana, 2020).
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century – 2022
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