Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the Director of the Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of four monographs that explore Jewish contribution to German “national culture” throughout the twentieth century. They include Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity (2012); Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape (2020); and (co-authored) Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (Pennsylvania University Press, 2025). He has published articles and edited books on various topics in German and Jewish history, including memory culture in Germany and Israel; Nazi-related humor in Germany; Jewish youth in Nazi Germany; German-Jewish immigrants in Mandate Palestine; the German antiwar movement; and exile photography.
Ashkenazi received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the Technical University of Berlin.