Abigail Green

Abigail Frances Floretta Green^[1] (born 12 May 1971) is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.

Abigail Green
Born	(1971-05-12) 12 May 1971 (age 54)
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Title	Professor of Modern European History
Spouse	Boaz Brosh
Children	1
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	German history Jewish history German nationalism Political history History of Europe
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge Brasenose College, Oxford

Career

Green's mother was born into the Sebag-Montefiore family.^[2] Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Oxford, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge; her PhD was awarded in 1999 for her thesis "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866".^[1][3][4] She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2000.^[1][5][6] In 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.^[7]

Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe, nationalism and regionalism in Germany, Jewish internationalism, and liberalism.^[5]

Honours and awards

Green was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir Moses Montefiore,^[8] which was also named one the New Republic's "Best Books of 2010", included among the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year", and a National Jewish Book Award finalist.^[9][10]

Personal life

Green is married to Boaz Brosh, with whom she has a daughter.^[11] Their wedding took place at Bevis Marks Synagogue in London.^[12]

Selected publications

• Coauthored with Peter Bergamin, "Vera Salomons and the Kotel: reading international Jewish history through a Jewish country house", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (2022), pp. 261-271.
• "Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national", The Historical Journal, vol. 57, no. 4 (2014), pp. 1157–1175.
• "Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of modern Jewish womanhood", History of European Ideas, vol. 40 (2014), pp. 747–760.
• "The limits of intervention: coercive diplomacy and the Jewish question in the nineteenth century", The International History Review, vol. 36, no. 3 (2014), pp. 473–492.
• (Edited with Vincent Viaene) Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750, Palgrave Transnational History series (Palgrave, 2012).
• Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
• "The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?", Past & Present, vol. 199 (2008), pp. 175–205.
• Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2001).