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Abigail Green
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Abigail Frances Floretta Green[1] (born 12 May 1971) is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.
Key Information
Career
[edit]Green's mother was born into the Sebag-Montefiore family.[2] Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Oxford, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge; her PhD was awarded in 1999 for her thesis "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866".[1][3][4] She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2000.[1][5][6] In 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.[7]
Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe, nationalism and regionalism in Germany, Jewish internationalism, and liberalism.[5]
Honours and awards
[edit]Green was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir Moses Montefiore,[8] which was also named one the New Republic's "Best Books of 2010", included among the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year", and a National Jewish Book Award finalist.[9][10]
Personal life
[edit]Green is married to Boaz Brosh, with whom she has a daughter.[11] Their wedding took place at Bevis Marks Synagogue in London.[12]
Selected publications
[edit]- Coauthored with Peter Bergamin, "Vera Salomons and the Kotel: reading international Jewish history through a Jewish country house", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (2022), pp. 261-271.
- "Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national", The Historical Journal, vol. 57, no. 4 (2014), pp. 1157–1175.
- "Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of modern Jewish womanhood", History of European Ideas, vol. 40 (2014), pp. 747–760.
- "The limits of intervention: coercive diplomacy and the Jewish question in the nineteenth century", The International History Review, vol. 36, no. 3 (2014), pp. 473–492.
- (Edited with Vincent Viaene) Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750, Palgrave Transnational History series (Palgrave, 2012).
- Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
- "The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?", Past & Present, vol. 199 (2008), pp. 175–205.
- Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c The Brazen Nose: 2015–2016, vol. 50 (Brasenose College, 2016), p. 11.
- ^ Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (Yale University Press, 2010), preface.
- ^ "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866", Newton Library Catalogue (University of Cambridge). Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ "Congregation of the Regent House on 20 March 1999", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5770 (vol. 128, no. 28) 21 April 1999. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Professor Abigail Green", Brasenose College. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ "St John's College", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5740 (vol. 128, no. 28), 3 June 1998, section 22. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ "Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2015" Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Oxford Gazette, no. 510915, October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ^ Jennifer Lipman, "Montefiore bigoraphy wins prestigious prize", The Jewish Chronicle, . Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ "Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010", The New Republic, 22 December 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ Naomi Firestone-Teeter, "Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist... Abigail Green", Jewish Book Council, 6 February 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ Green, Abigail (2010). Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. xii. ISBN 9780674048805.
- ^ Green, Abigail. "Presentation to Planning Committee Members, 4 October 2021" (PDF). City of London Democracy. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
