Shmuel Feiner is a professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University and heads the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia. He is the author of Haskalah and History, The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness (2002), The Jewish Enlightenment (2004, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award) and Moses Mendelssohn (Hebrew, 2005), as well as of various articles on the Haskalah in Germany and Eastern Europe and on Secularization.