Jonathan Zatlin

Zatlin is associate professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany (2007) which analyzes the economic and social history of East Germany from 1971–1990. He has also written about the East German automobile industry, popular opinion in the GDR, socialist consumer policy under Honecker, economic sources of racism in Soviet-style regimes, and the Stasi. He is co-editor of Selling Modernity: German Advertising in the Twentieth Century (2007). He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Jews and Money: Economic Change and Political Culture in Germany, 1870–1990, which examines economic anti-Semitism and the Jewish reaction in modern Germany.