David Myers

David N. Myers, a distinguished professor of history at UCLA, holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History. He is an authority on modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history and Jewish historiography and an expert on Jewish-Arab relations. Myers’s research has touched on a wide variety of topics, among them the Jewish diaspora, Zionism, modern Hasidic Judaism, German-Jewish historicism, European-Jewish intellectual movements and the history of the Jews of Los Angeles. In addition to his scholarly work, Myers writes and lectures frequently on contemporary Jewish affairs, particularly Israel/Palestine. 

He currently serves as the director of the Bedari Kindness Institute and the Initiative to Study Hate and the faculty director of the Dialogue Across Difference initiative. He is also the founding director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, where he co-produces the Then & Now podcast, using historical analysis and context to help provide guidance through modern issues and policy decisions.