Jason Lustig
, Instructor, Jewish History, UCLA Department of History

Jason Lustig is a scholar of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history focusing on the history of archives and the intersection of history and memory, and he teaches Jewish history at the UCLA Department of History. His dissertation, titled “‘A Time to Gather’: A History of Jewish Archives in the Twentieth Century,” is a transnational study of the development of Jewish archives in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine from about 1900 to the 1960s. His work has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History and is forthcoming in American Jewish History. He is currently developing a book manuscript based on the dissertation, and he has been a research fellow at the American Jewish Archives, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Leo Baeck Institute. For more info, please visit: www.jasonlustig.com.