John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at the University of California at Berkeley, where specializes in the cultural and social history of German Jewry. A native of Melbourne, Australia, he has a B.A. from Monash University, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. In his work, Efron has focused on the way German Jewry attempted to reinterpret and reinvent Jewish culture in the wake of its complex encounter with modernity. Among his publications are Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Yale UP, 1994); Medicine and the German Jews: A History (Yale UP, 2001); German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (Princeton UP, 2016); The Jews: A Modern History (Routledge, 2025); and All Consuming: Germans, Jews and the Meaning of Meat (Stanford UP, 2025).