Rate My Professor Daniel Heller

Heller’s research specializations include East European Jewish history, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the psychology of conflict and cooperation, history of Zionism and the State of Israel, and history of humanitarian aid and international development. His book, Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism (Princeton University Press, 2017), garnered the Association for Jewish Studies’ Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel (2018), the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship (2018), and the J.I. Segal English Non-fiction Award on a Jewish Theme (2018). Key publications feature “Mental Health in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Psychological Interventions in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps” (Journal of Contemporary History, 2024), “Israeli Aid and the ‘African Woman’: The Gendered Politics of International Development, 1958-1973” (Jewish Social Studies, 2020), and “Gender, development and the Arab-Israeli conflict: the politics of study tours for women from the Global South in the State of Israel, 1958–1973” (History Australia, 2020). He is authoring The Pedagogy of Conflict: Teaching Controversial Issues in University Classrooms, under contract with Princeton University Press. As co-director of the Brave Conversations Project, Heller fosters dialogue on contentious issues. He has given public lectures on the Holocaust, Arab-Israeli conflict, and ancient Jewish responses to pandemics, and accepts PhD students.