Mendel Kranz

Mendel Kranz is Assistant Professor of Religion at Middlebury College, and he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2023. Kranz’s research examines the intersections of modern Jewish thought, postcolonial studies, and the entangled histories of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racialization. His first book, The Postcolonial Jewish Question: Colonialism and the Politics of Difference in Postwar France (University of Chicago), explores how Jewish intellectual life in France was transformed by decolonization and its aftermath from the 1950s through the turn of the century. He is currently co-editing The Antisemitism Wars (NYU Press), a volume on the history and politics of anti-antisemitism. An award-winning teacher, Kranz teaches courses across the range of Jewish history and thought.