Philipp Lenhard

Philipp Lenhard (born 1980 in Bielefeld) is a German historian and scholar of Jewish studies. He studied Jewish studies, philosophy, and Anglo-American history, received his doctorate in 2014, and completed his habilitation in 2022. He worked at the Chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and taught as a DAAD Professor of History and German at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, “Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland, 1782–1848,” received the 2020 Max Weber Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has also edited the collected writings of Friedrich Pollock and published a biography of Pollock.