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Published Books

​American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
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The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

​Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 
 
Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 2008.
 
Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
 
Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Edited Volumes and Introductions

Introduction to Shimon Rawidowicz, "Ben 'Ever le-'Arav" (Between Jew and Arab) (Hebrew), 11-32. Jerusalem-Berlin: Blima Press, 2025.​
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New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society, edited by David N. Myers and Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2024. 
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Simon Rawidowicz, Between Babylon and Jerusalem: Selected Writings, edited by David N. Myers and Benjamin C. I. Ravid. Leipzig: Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2020.

Steven Mark Lowenstein, The Population History of German Jewry 1815–1939, edited by David N. Myers and Michael Berenbaum. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023.

Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller, edited by Shaul Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020.

The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act, edited by David N. Myers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.

Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson, edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014.

The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History, edited by David N. Myers and Alexander Kaye. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2014.
 
Acculturation and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience between Integration and Exclusion, edited by David N. Myers et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen, edited by Michael Brenner and David N. Myers. Munich: Beck Verlag, 2002.
 
Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases, edited by Richard Hovannisian and David N. Myers. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998.
 
The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians, edited by David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
 
From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community, edited by David N. Myers and William V. Rowe. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 1997.

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