Dr. Leah Garrett

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

She has published four books in Jewish literary history including her most recent, Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel, which won the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for modern Jewish history and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her new book, X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, is forthcoming with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Chatto (Penguin).

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

X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Chatto (Penguin), forthcoming
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Leah’s talk about the book is available below.

Young 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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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.

Leah 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

Leah talks about how Mad Magazine influenced Postwar America.
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