Michael Albert Meyer (born 1937) is a German-born American historian of modern Jewish history.

[5] In Germany, his father was an attorney, who subsequently had his law license revoked by the Nazis and spent time in forced labor before managing to take his family to the United States via Spain.

[6] Meyer grew up in Los Angeles, California, graduated with highest honors from UCLA and received his PhD in Jewish history from the Hebrew Union College (HUC).

[7] After completing his doctoral dissertation, Meyer published it under the title The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749–1824 (1967).

[16] In 2020, Meyer published a scholarly biography of the prominent German Jewish rabbi, Leo Baeck with University of Pennsylvania Press.