{"id":169,"date":"2011-10-26T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2016-03-03T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:48:27","slug":"danny-orbach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/fellows\/external-fellows\/danny-orbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Orbach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and a senior lecturer for history and East Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harvard University,<\/strong> Cambridge MA<\/p>\n

PhD<\/strong> in history (modern Japan)<\/p>\n

Dissertation: “Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Modern Japanese Army, 1860-1931”. Advisors: Professors Andrew D. Gordon, David L. Howell, Niall Ferguson, Cathal J. Nolan<\/p>\n

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Tokyo University<\/strong> \u2013 Monbusho scholarship research student, 2007-9<\/p>\n

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Tel Aviv University –<\/strong> BA, summa cum laude<\/em>, General History and East Asian Studies, 2006<\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Modern Japanese History<\/p>\n

Modern Chinese History<\/p>\n

Military History<\/p>\n

History of Counterinsurgency<\/p>\n

History of Disobedience<\/p>\n

Dynamics of Atrocities in Wartime<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Curse on this Country: Japanese Military Insubordination and the Origins of the Pacific War <\/em>(Cornell University Press, forthcoming in spring 2017)<\/p>\n

The Plots against Hitler<\/em> (New York: Houghton Mifflin, Eamon Dolan Books \u2013 forthcoming October 2016)<\/p>\n

——————- Uccidere Hitler<\/em> (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri \u2013 forthcoming September 2016)<\/p>\n

——————- Valkyrie \u2013 New expanded edition<\/em> (Yedioth Ahronot Press \u2013 forthcoming October 2016)<\/p>\n

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Valkyrie \u2013 Ha-Hitnagdut ha-Germanit le-Hitler<\/em> (Valkyrie: German Resistance to Hitler), (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronot Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

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Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Imperialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance”, in Sven Saaler. ed., Mutual Perceptions in German-Japanese Relations<\/em>: Images, Imaginings and Stereotypes <\/em>(forthcoming)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Other Prussia \u2013 General von Tresckow, Resistance to Hitler and the Nature of Charisma\u201d, Tel Aviver Jahrb\u016bcher f\u016br deutsche Geschichte <\/em>(forthcoming, October 2016)<\/p>\n

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“‘By not stopping’: The First Taiwan Expedition (1874) and the Roots of Japanese Military Disobedience”, The Journal of Japanese Studies <\/em>42: 1 (Winter 2016), pp.29-55.<\/p>\n

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“The Ky\u016bj\u014d Incident: A Night-time Coup in Tokyo”, in David Chandler, Robert Cribb, and Li Narangoa, eds., End of History: 100 Days that changed the World <\/em>(Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

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(With Mark Solonin), “Calculated Indifference: The Soviet Union and the Plan to Bomb Auschwitz”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies <\/em>27 (2013), pp.90-113.<\/p>\n

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“Black Flag at a Crossroads: the Political Trial of Kafr-Qasim (1956-8): Dynamics and Consequences”, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies <\/em>45 (2013), pp.491-511.<\/p>\n

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“Tyrannicide in Radical Islam: Sayyid Qutb and Abd A-Salam Faraj”, Middle Eastern Studies <\/em>(November 2012), pp. 961-972.<\/p>\n

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“A Japanese Prophet – Eschatology and Epistemology in the Thought of Kita Ikki, Japan Forum <\/em>23:3, 2011, pp.339-361.<\/p>\n

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“Criticism Reconsidered: The German Resistance to Hitler in Critical German Scholarship”, Journal of Military History<\/em> 75:2 (April, 2011), pp.1-26.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJapan through SS Eyes: Cultural Dialogue and Instrumentalization of a Wartime Ally\u201d, European Studies <\/em>Vol. 7 (March, 2008), pp.115-131.<\/p>\n

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Peer reviewed translations of the above:<\/p>\n

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\u201cJapan mit der Augen der SS gesehen\u201d (Vorwort and Deutsche \u00dcbersetzung von Harald Kleinschmidt) (Japan seen with the Eyes of the SS: Foreword and German translation by Harald Kleinschmidt), (in German), OAG Notizen <\/em>(May, 2008), pp.12-31.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHidat Hacoah Hademoni \u2013 Tadmiyot Yapaniyot Baraich Hashlishi \u2013 Dialog Tarbuti ve Instrumentalizatsia\u201d (The Riddle of Demonic Power: Japanese Images in the Third Reich: Cultural Dialogue and Instrumentalization), (in Hebrew) Historia \u2013 Journal of the Israeli Historical Society, <\/em>vol.22 (Autumn 2008), <\/em>pp.29-73.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMitsvat Lo Tirzah Be-mered Ha-Taiping: Teologia ve-Yisuma Halacha Le-Ma\u2019ase\u201d (‘Thou Shalt not Kill\u2019 in the Taiping Rebellion: Theology and Practice), (in Hebrew) Zmanim<\/em>, vol.104 (Autumn 2008), <\/em>pp.90-105.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHa-Zamir ve-ha-Lotus \u2013 Jalal A-Din A-Rumi ve-ha-Buddhism\u201d (The Nightingale and the Lotus \u2013 Jalal Al-Din Al-Rumi and Chinese Buddhist Thought), (in Hebrew) Jamaa <\/em>16, 2007, pp.63-83.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFata Morgana o Re\u2019i Akum: Historionim ve-ha-Hitnagdut ha-Germanit le-Hitler\u201d (Fata Morgana or a Crooked Mirror: \u2018Critical\u2019 German Historians and the German Resistance to Hitler), (in Hebrew), Zmanim <\/em>(Summer 2005), pp.-84-95.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Israeli Translation Controversy \u2013 what about and where to\u201d (with contributions by Yuval Wellis and Yuval Kfir), in Thomas Honneger, ed., Tolkien in Translation: Text and Film <\/em>(Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2004), pp.53-66. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Invited Academic Broadcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Cultures of Disobedience: Assassinations and Rebellions in the Imperial Japanese Army”, Harvard Horizons Symposium<\/em>, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i1Qm0_N5egI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Anti-Nazi Coups that Failed, 1938 and 1944: Did They Have a Chance?\u201d, Military History Series, Boston University, 3 March 2011. Broadcasted in WBUR, Boston\u2019s NPR: http:\/\/worldofideas.wbur.org\/2011\/03\/20\/anti-nazi-coups<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fellowships and Awards <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harvard Horizons Scholar<\/a>, 2014. A special program of Harvard University, in which eight students from different disciplines are being selected annually to presented their projects to a larger audience.<\/p>\n

Harvard University, Derek Bok Center Distinction in Teaching, 2014 and 2012<\/p>\n

External Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University (2012 to present)<\/p>\n

Japan Foundation Research Fellow, 2012 -13<\/p>\n

Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian and European Studies, Harvard University, 2010-11<\/p>\n

Yaavetz’s Award for outstanding students, History Department, Tel Aviv University, 2006<\/p>\n

Wolf Foundation Award for outstanding students, 2006<\/p>\n

Japanese Education Ministry (Monbusho) scholarship for research students, 2006<\/p>\n

Rector’s Award for academic excellence, Tel Aviv University, 2005<\/p>\n

Bosh Foundation Award for Jewish studies, 2004<\/p>\n

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General Examination Fields <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Modern Japanese History (Meiji to the end of WWII), Early Modern Japanese History (Tokugawa to Meiji), Modern and Early Modern Chinese History (Qing Dynasty and modern China up to the Cultural Revolution), Military History (1600 to the present)<\/p>\n

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Position Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“General Hans Oster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Dr. Hans von Dohnanyi and their efforts to save Jewish lives during the Second World War”: A research for the Righteous among the Nations<\/em> Committee, Yad Vashem Holocaust Research institute, Jeruslaem. This research led to the endowment of the title “righteous among the nations” to Dr. Hans von Dohnanyi<\/p>\n

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Conference Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Reemergence of the Samurai: The New Wave of Political Violence in Japan’s ‘Postwar’”, presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2, 2014, Washinton DC.<\/p>\n

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“Networks of Fencing: Anatomy of Conspiratorial Networks in Bakumatsu Japan (1853-1868)”, presented at the Israeli Graduate Students Conference in East Asian Studies, 4 June, 2012, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv.<\/p>\n

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“Colonialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the National Conservative German Resistance”, presented at ICAS Conference, 25 June, 2013, Macau, China, and the<\/p>\n

OAG International Symposium, “Mutual Perceptions in Japanese-German Relations: Images, Imaginings and Stereotypes”, 10 December, 2010, OAG House, Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n

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“The German Resistance Movement and the Holocaust: A Reassessment”, presented at Yad Vashem Guest Research Seminar, 26 November, 2009, Jerusalem, Israel.<\/p>\n

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“The Reception of the German Resistance in Israel: Hans von Dohnanyi as a Case Study”, presented at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, 9 October, 2004, Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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Teaching Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harvard University, <\/strong>Program in General Education, Cambridge MA<\/p>\n

Teaching Fellow<\/em>, “Political Justice and Political Trials” (Professor Charles S. Maier), Spring 2014.<\/p>\n