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Leah Garrett

Leah Garrett

Director of the Jewish Studies Center and Director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Author of five books on literature and history and numerous essays and articles, Dr. Leah Garrett, was named inaugural director of the Jewish Studies Center in 2018.

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Leah Garrett is the director of the Jewish Studies Center and director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

She has published five books on literature and history including her most recent, X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two (Mariner Books (Harper Collins) and Chatto (Penguin)), 2022. Her fourth book, Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel, won the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for modern Jewish history and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.

Dr. Garrett has also been the recipient of multiple fellowships including a Fulbright Fellowship to Tel Aviv University and a ACLS Junior Faculty Mellon.

Publications

X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two
Mariner Books (Harper Collins) and Chatto (Penguin), 2022
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Leah's talk about the book is available below.

young-lions-book-coverYoung Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
Northwestern University Press, 2015
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A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser
Purdue University Press, 2011
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The Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro
Yale University Press, 2007
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Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
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Talks

X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War

On 5/20/20, Hunter hosted this online public program as part of the Hunter@Home series.

Dr. Garrett discussed her new book project which tells the remarkable and unknown story of a group of Jewish Holocaust refugees who were trained by the British to be commandos, fighting on the front lines of many of the most crucial battles of the Second World War.
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Mad Magazine

Dr. Garrett talks about how Mad Magazine influenced Postwar America.
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Areas of Oversight

Jewish Studies Center
Jewish Studies
Hebrew

Contact Details

Leah Garrett

Jewish Studies Program
68th Street West 1328
212-772-5097
leah.garrett@hunter.cuny.edu

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