Michael BrennerMichael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of American University's Center for Israel Studies. He received his PhD at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books including After te Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany and Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. He is co-author of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times, for which he was awarded a National Jewish Book Award, and editor of nineteen books.