James Loeffler is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History and Department of History Director, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, at Johns Hopkins University. His current research explores the ties between law and politics in twentieth- and twenty-first century Eastern Europe and the United States, with a focus on human rights, Jewish political
