James Loeffler

James Loeffler is the Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple award-winning books, including Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2018), which won the American Historical Association Rosenberg Prize for Best Book in Jewish History and the Association for Jewish Studies Schnitzer Prize for Best Book in Modern Jewish History. His other publications include The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (2010), The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (2019), and A Jew in the Street: New Views on European Jewish History (2024).

He has been held fellowships from the Library of Congress, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Fulbright program. He is currently Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.