Yair Mintzker is a specialist in the history of early modern and modern Germany, and the author or editor of four books and many articles in the field. His latest monograph, The Many Deaths of Jew Süss (Princeton UP, 2017) is a retelling of the trial and execution of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, the notorious “Jew Süss.” The book won the National Jewish Book Award in History and was chosen by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2017. Hebrew and German translations are forthcoming.
Mintzker will co-teach HUM 470, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: Literature, History and Their Entanglements in the Western Tradition with Joel Lande this fall. He was previously a Behrman Professor in the Humanities and taught HUM 218/219, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion in the Spring of 2020.
