Rank:

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Address:

Department of History (mc 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 413-9356
Fax: (773) 525-8740
E-mail: rslevy@uic.edu

Education:

• B.A., University of Chicago, 1962
• M.A., Yale University, 1964
• Ph.D., Yale University, 1969

• Monograph:
  
  
  • The Downfall of the Anti-Semitic Political Parties in Imperial Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975)

   

• Edited books:
  
  • Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005) pp. 828 + xxxiv
    
    
  • Antisemitism in the Modern World. Anthology of Texts (Lexington, MA.: D.C. Heath, 1990), pp. 260 + vi
    
    
  • Binjamin Segel, A Lie and a Libel: The History of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Edited, translated, and introduced by Richard S. Levy (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 1995)
    
    
• Articles:
  
  
  • "A Lie and a Libel: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Recent History," in L. J. Greenspoon, ed., Representations of Jews Through the Ages (Omaha: Creighton U. Press, 1996), pp. 231-43
    
    
  • "Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Germany, 1819-1938," in Christhard Hoffmann, et al., eds., Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 185-202
    
    
• Book Reviews:
  
  
  • Alan Steinweis, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1993) in GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW 18 (1995): 176-77
    
    
  • David Blackbourn, The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), reviewed for H-German, September 9, 1998
    
    
  • Michael Brenner, The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press, 1996) in JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 70 (September 1998): 747-48
    
    
  • Dirk Walter, Antisemitische Kriminalität und Gewalt: Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik (Bonn, 1999) in JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 72 (December 2000): 1060-62
    
    
  • Olaf Blaschke, Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich (Göttingen, 1997) in AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (February 2001): 278-79
    
    
  • Till van Rahden, Juden und andere Breslauer. Die Beziehungen zwischen Juden, Protestanten und Katholiken in einer deutschen Grossstadt von 1860 bis 1925 (Göttingen, 2000), Reviewed for H-German, April 21, 2001
  • William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2003).in CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY 28/3 (2005): 73-74

Awards and Positions:

• Humanities Institute Fellow, 1992-93
• Fulbright Summer fellowship, 1996
• Shirley Bill Outstanding Teacher award 1999
• Fulbright Senior Professor Sant'Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research, Pisa, Italy for winter semester 2001
• Silver Circle Award 2004

I am working on editing a volume on antisemitism for the Oxford University Press ; I am also revising articles on the same subject for the 2nd edition of Encyclopedia Judaica.

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Department of History