Benjamin Lapp

Benjamin Lapp is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Montclair State University, New Jersey. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He is the author of Revolution from the Right: Politics, Class and the Rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933 (Boston and Amsterdam, 1997) and co-editor of the volume (with Todd and HIllary Hope Herzog) Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (New York and Oxford, 2008), as well as numerous articles on German and German-Jewish history.

He is currently working on a manuscript based on the oral testimonies of German-Jewish female survivors of slave labor and concentration camps in Estonia, 1942-45.