Jeffrey Freedman
Professor
Department of History
Yeshiva University
United States of America
Biography
Jeff Freedman is a historian of the ‘long 18th century’ with particular interests in the French- and German-speaking worlds. His research and teaching encompass the history of the book, media and mediation; the transnational circulation of books and ideas; the history of emotions; Enlightenment philosophy; and the genealogies of democratic political culture. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1991 under the direction of Robert Darnton and Natalie Zemon Davis and has held teaching positions at Princeton, Franklin & Marshall College, and Yeshiva University. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of two books, both of which are based on original archival research in German and French manuscript sources.
Research Interest
Research Interests Include: French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets, History , Transnational circulation of books and ideas.
Publications
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Freedman J (2011) The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, the Enlightenment, and the Fear of Premature Burial, In Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment. Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton, ed. Charles Walton. University Park Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press 177-97.
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Freedman J (2009) Publishing Wars and the End of the French Enlightenment: Les Oeuvres posthumes de Frédéric II. Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte 18: 109-48.
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Freedman J (2016) The Dangers Within: Fears of Imprisonment in Enlightenment France. Mod Intell His 14: 339-364.
