Dr Lars Fischer (FRHistS) is Lecturer in German History in the Department of German at UCL and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department. Before taking up his current position in the Department of German he was Lecturer in Modern European History at King's College London.

Lars Fischer returned to higher education as a mature student in 1997. He studied Modern History at Queen Mary and Westfield College and received the University of London's Derby Bryce Prize in 2000. Awarded a Major Graduate School Research Scholarship, he was a PhD student and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department from 2000 to 2003. He has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow in Washington, DC (2005) and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach (2006).

Grounded in a strong interest in historiographical issues and intellectual history, Lars Fischer's research focuses mainly on the history of (modern) antisemitism and prevalent non-Jewish perceptions of Jewry and Judaism more generally, as well as the history of Marxism. His study on The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany came out with Cambridge University Press in March 2007. His second book will chart the ways in which perceptions of antisemitism and Jewish/non-Jewish relations changed between ca. 1870 and 1950. Among other things, it will look in some detail at the extent to which immediate, contemporaneous responses to the Shoah actually corresponded to what we now consider standard responses to the Holocaust. Finally, he is interested in all things to do with Gertrud Mayer-Jaspers, the Jewish wife of Karl Jaspers and sister (inter alia) of the historian of German Socialism, Gustav Mayer.

Books

• The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. (New York, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

• Review article on antisemitism and modernity in /East European Jewish Affairs /37, 2 (2007), pp. 249-55.
• "Hegel in Support of Jewish Emancipation: A Deliberate Political Act?", in Owl of Minerva 37, 2 (2006), pp. 127–57.
• "The Meanings of Genocide" [Review Article], in Political Quarterly 77, 2 (2006), pp. 295–99.
• "The Pogromshchina and the Directory: A New Historiographical Synthesis?" in Revolutionary Russia 16, 2 (2003), pp. 47-93.
• "A New Historiographical Synthesis?" in UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies Departmental Newsletter (March 2003): 14-16.

• "'Es ist überall derselbe Faden, den ich spinne.' Annäherungen an Franz Mehrings Haltung zu Antisemitismus und Judentum,' in Dieter Bähtz, Manfred Beetz, Roland Rittig (eds.), Dem freien Geiste freien Flug. Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur für Thomas Höhle (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2003), pp. 129-54.
• "Feuerbach," "Hegel," "The Jewish Question (Bruno Bauer)," "Abram Léon," "Franz Mehring," "Young Hegelians," in Richard S. Levy (ed.), Antisemitism. A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (2 vols.; Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2005), pp. 226-27, 291-92, 380-81, 417-18, 452, 783-84.

• Academic (with Beverly Adams): Timm Kunstreich, "Social Welfare in Nazi Germany: Selection and Exclusion", in Journal for Progressive Human Services 14.2 (2003), pp. 23-52.
• Gay detective novels (with Tjark Kunstreich): John Morgan Wilson, Der Gerechte (Berlin: Argument, 1998).
  Richard Stevenson, Verraten und verkauft (Berlin: Argument, 1998).