Uffa Jensen

Uffa Jensen (born 1969) is a German historian. He studied history and philosophy in Kiel, Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York. After working at the University of Sussex, the University of Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, he taught at the Technical University of Berlin, where he became a professor of antisemitism research in 2017. His publications include “Gebildete Doppelgänger. Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19. Jahrhundert” (2005), “Gefühle gegen Juden” (with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 2013), “Zornpolitik” (2017), “Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam” (2019), and “Ein antisemitischer Doppelmord” (2022). His fields of scholarship include the history of antisemitism, German Jewry, and psychoanalysis, as well as the history of emotions and visual culture.