Jonathan Steinberg
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Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History and former Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A. B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. After serving for 30 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master, he now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Dr. Steinberg’s teaching covers modern Europe since 1789 with specialization in the German and Austrian Empires, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and modern Jewish history. He has also taught graduate seminars in historical thought and method.
He is the author of Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet, Why Switzerland?, All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust and Die Deutsche Bank und ihre Goldtransaktionen im Zweiten Weltkreig (also published in English). His reviews have appeared in The London Review of Books, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. In 2003 he completed "European History and European Lives, 1715 to 1914", a 36-part series of biographies produced by The Teaching Company. Dr. Steinberg has also written many radio and TV documentaries, including the BBC Radio Four’s salute to the U.S. Constitution, Secure in their Persons. He is also the co-editor of Historical Journal.
Furthermore, Dr. Steinberg served as an expert witness in the Commonwealth of Australia War Crimes prosecution. He was also appointed to the Historical Commission of the Deutsche Bank A.G. Frankfurt am Mein to examine bank activity and gold transactions during World War II. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland, and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets.
