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David N. Myers (born 1960) is a professor of history at UCLA in Los Angeles. His research focuses on modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history. He serves as the Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the UCLA History Department.

Biography
A native of Scranton, PA, Myers received his A. B. from Yale College in 1982. He commenced graduate studies in Jewish history at Tel Aviv University (1982-84) before moving on to study medieval Jewish thought at Harvard (1984-85). He then moved to Columbia, where he worked under the supervision of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Myers received his Ph.D. with distinction in 1991. His dissertation was devoted to the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University. This became the basis of his first book, Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). Myers’ work stands at the juncture of intellectual history, the history of historiography, and the history of Zionism. Recently, he has been engaged in research on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, NY.

Myers joined the faculty of the UCLA History Department in 1991 as a lecturer and 1992 as an assistant professor. He served for ten years as the director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and, from 2010, as the chair of the UCLA History Department. He also has served since 2003 as the co-editor, along with Elliott Horowitz and Natalie Dohrmann, of the Jewish Quarterly Review. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Myers has been an actively involved in various Jewish communal organizations at local and national levels, including the New Israel Fund and the Progressive Jewish Alliance. He has written widely on Israel-related and Jewish community issues.

Authored

 * Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
 * Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
 * Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 2008.

Edited

 * David N. Myers and William V. Rowe, eds. From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community, introduction by D. N. Myers. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 1997.
 * David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman, eds. The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians, introduction by D. N. Myers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
 * Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers, eds. Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998.
 * Richard Hovannisian and David N. Myers, eds. Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
 * Michael Brenner and David N. Myers, eds. Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen. Munich: Beck Verlag, 2002.
 * David N. Myers et. al. eds. Acculturation and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience between Integration and Exclusion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
 * David N. Myers and Alexander Kaye, eds. The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2013.