2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4289
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: mrozenbl@umd.edu

           A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between Jews and other Germans in Moravia between 1848 and 1938. Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, synagogue selection in nineteenth-century Baltimore, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the Holocaust. She has held fellowships from the ACLS, NEH, and the University of Maryland's GRB. She served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, the NEH, and the Dissertation Prize Committee of the Austrian Cultural Institute. She served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies from 1998 to 2003. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

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