Professor David Rechter
BA MA Melbourne, PhD Hebrew
Senior Golding Research Fellow
I completed my BA and MA in Melbourne, Australia, and went on to further study and work in Jerusalem and Stanford before coming to Oxford a couple of decades ago. My research focuses on the history of the Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the late-eighteenth century through to the First World War. I am Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute in London, an international research institution on the history and culture of German-speaking Jews, and editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, the leading publication in the field of German-Jewish history.
At Eden’s Door: The Habsburg Jewish Life of Leon Kellner, 1859-1928 (London, 2023)
(with Kateřina Čapková) Židé nebo Němci? Německy mluvící Židé v poválečné střední Evropě (Prague, 2019)
Becoming Habsburg: The Jews of Austrian Bukovina 1774-1918 (Oxford, 2013)
The Jews of Vienna and the First World War (Oxford, 2001)