Jack Jacobs, Professor of Government, is currently Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting) at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He received a PhD from Columbia University and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to John Jay. Professor Jacobs was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University in 1998, and was the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 2003-2004. He has been the recipient of grants from the Forward Association, the Arthur Zygielbaum Memorial Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources. Professor Jacobs is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press 1992), which has appeared in German; the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press 2001); and has published in such journals as Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fuer deutsche Geschichte, MEGA-Studien, Annali Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte, YIVO Annual, International Review of Social History, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, and Archiv. Jahrbuch des Vereins fuer Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung. His research currently centers on critical theory and the image of the Jew.