Michael Brenner is Professor ofJewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His publications include The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press, 1996), After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Post-War Germany (Princeton University Press, 1997), and Zionism: A Brief History (Marcus Wiener Publishers, 2003). He is co-author and co-editor of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times(Columbia University Press, 1997-98) and co-editor of various other books. He serves as chairman of the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland and is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Jewish Museum in Berlin.