American Jewish Historical Society

Alphabetical List of Speakers and their Topics

Geographical List of Speakers and their Topics

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Jeanne Abrams
Professor and Director, Beck Archives and Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society
University of Denver
2000 E. Asbury
Sturm Hall, Suite #157
Denver, CO 80208
Phone: (303) 871-3016 Fax: (303) 871-3037
Email: jabrams@du.edu

Lecture Topics:

The Jews of the American West
Jewish Women in the American West
The American Jewish Community and the Tuberculosis Crusade

Michael Alexander
Assoc. Professor, Religous Studies
University of California
3038 CHASS INT NORTH
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-3744
Email: michael.alexander@ucr.edu

Primary Topics:

"Mammy, Don't You Know Me?": Al Jolson and the Jews.
"Biznez iz Biznez": Arnold Rothstein and The Black Sox Scandal of 1919.
Felix Frankfurter Among the Anarchists: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Other Topics:

20^th Century Jews and Politics.
Jews and the Economy.
Jews and the American Entertainment Industry.
Jews and Blacks.

Samantha Baskind
Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University
Art Department
1901 East 13th Street
Cleveland, OH 44114
Tel: 216-297-9097 (h), 216-687-2096 (o) Fax: 216-687-2275
Email: s.baskind@csuohio.edu

Lecture Topics:

What is Jewish American Art?: Controversy and Confusion
Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: Jewish, Comics, and the Graphic Novel
Representing Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Art and Culture
Reimaging the Book: Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America
Artistic Odyssey and Precedent in Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev
Jewish American Artists and Social Conscience

Mark K. Bauman
Atlanta Metropolitan College (retired); Editor, Southern Jewish History
2517 Hartford Drive
Ellenwood, GA 30294
Phone: (404) 366-3306; (678) 428-3622
Email: markkbauman@aol.com

Primary Topics:

Is Southern Jewish History Distinctive?
Southern Jewish Women: Their Social Service Organizations and Changing Roles
Black-Jewish Relations in the South
Atlanta Jewish History
Antisemitism and Acceptance in the South
The Cosmopolitans: Southern Jewish Leadership and Migration

Aviva Ben-Ur
Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
161 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
Phone: 413-577-0649 (no voice mail) Fax: 413-545-5876
Email: aben-ur@judnea.umass.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jews of Suriname (in a Caribbean/Atlantic context)
Jewish masters, Jewish slaves (in a comparative historical context)
American Sephardi community (in a trans-national context)
Ashkenazi/Sephardi relations (in an inter-ethnic historical context)
Jewish cemetery research
American Ladino press and literature

Dr. Alan L. Berger
Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Rd.
Boca Raton, FL. 33434
Phone: 561-297-2979 Fax: 561-297-2199
Website: http://www.duplain.com/alan_berger/

Lecture Topics:

Elie Wiesel's Quarrel with God
Changing Paradigms of Holocaust Memory: Literary Representation of the Holocaust in the Novels of Second and Third Generation Witnesses
Catholic/Jewish Relations: Promise and Peril, The Next 40 Years
Trialogue and Terror: The Abrahamic Faiths Respond to 9/11
Holocaust Rescuers: The Many Faces of Altruism
Harry S. Truman and Jewish Refugees

Menahem Blondheim, PhD
Prof., Dept. of History, and Head, Dept. of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dept. of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905
Tel: (+)972 2 5883046
Email: mblond@huji.ac.il

Lecture Topics:

I. Civil War
- a. Studying the American Civil War in Israel: The Case of the Copperheads
- b. The Enigma of the Hebrew “Lincoln Acrostic”
II. Uprooting Tradition in the Age of the Great Migration
- a. Divine Comedy: Humor and the Transformation of the Traditional Sermon in America
- b. Bold Types: Three Maverick Hebrew Printers in turn of the 19^th Century New York
- c. Is there an American Jewish Law? Evidence from Responsa, Ordinations, and Approbations

Linda J. Borish
Associate Professor of History and Gender/Women's Studies Program
Department of History, Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Ave.
Department of History, MS 5334
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5334
Phone: 269-387-4061 (work); 269-491-8083 (cell) Fax: 269-387-4651
Email: linda.borish@wmich.edu

Lecture Topics:

"Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics," documentary film screening and discussion based on my research and role as Historian and Executive Producer of the film
"Charlotte Epstein, American Jewish Women, and Advancement of Women's Competitive Swimming in the Olympic Games"
"American Jewish Sportswomen and Ethnic Identities in the Maccabiah Games and U.S. Sport in the 1930s"
"American Jewish Sportswomen, Gender, and American Culture"
"American Jewish Women's Sporting Experiences at Settlement Houses and Early Jewish Ys"
"Jewish Women and American Basketball: Historical Perspectives"

Joseph Brandes
Professor of History Emeritus
William Paterson University of New Jersey
16-36 Raymond Street
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410-1908
Phone: 201-796-1218
Email: MARJOE26@JUNO.COM

Primary Topics:

Back to the Soil! Jewish Pioneer Farmers.
From Sweatshop to Stability: Jewish Labor Unions In America.
Jewish Communities on the New Jersey Frontier.
Jewish Pioneers in American Business and Labor.

Other Topics:

Jewish Immigrants in the American Mainstream.
German Jewish and East European Jewish Immigrants.
Development of 20^th Century American Jewish Community.
Visions of Utopia: Jewish Pioneers in Rural New Jersey.
Liberty's Fruit: How Did Jewish Immigrants Become "American"?
Israel, the "Peace Process." And Media Politics.
Whose Jerusalem? History, Religion, Diversity.

Tobias Brinkmann
Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History
Department of History & Religious Studies
Penn State University
108 Weaver Building (office 412)
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-4690 Fax: 814-863-7840
Email: thb10@psu.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jewish immigration/migration from the Colonial period to the post-Soviet migration
“German Jews” in the United States
History of Urban Reform Congregations
Chicago Jewish History

Phil Brown
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Brown University
Brown University, Box 1916
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401-863-2633 Fax: 401-863-2367
Email: phil_brown@brown.edu

Primary Topics:

The Jewish Legacy in the Catskill Mountains
Religion in the Catskills

Kimmy R. Caplan
Professor of Modern Jewish History
Department of Jewish History
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan 52900
Israel
Phone: 972-2-(02)-679-5815 Fax: 972-3-(03)-534-6467
Email: kimmyc@vanleer.org.il

Primary Topics:

American Jewish Religious History.
Orthodoxy in the New World.
Zionism and Jewish Religion in America.
American Jewish Preaching.

Jerome Chanes
Adjunct Faculties: Barnard College, Stern College, Wurzweiller School of Social Work at Yeshiva University
Senior Consultant to the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
60 Riverside Drive, Apt. 11G
New York, NY 10024
Phone: 917-363-6127 Fax: 212-877-9054
Email: jchanes@jewishculture.org

Primary Topics:

Jewish Communal Organization/Structure.
Anti-Semitism in the United States.
Interreligious Relationships (Catholic-Jewish, Protestant-Jewish)
The Jewish Public Affairs (public-policy) Agenda
Affirmative Action: History and Context
Church-State Separation

Other Topics:

History of the Jewish Public-Affairs Agenda. ("What has been on the agenda of American Jewry and Why?")
History of Anti-Semitism.
American Jewish Social History.

Hasia Diner
Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University
Department of History
53 Washington Square South
New York University
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-614-8853 Fax: 212-995-4178
Email: hrd1@nyu.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jewish Women in America
Peddlers and American Jewish History
No Generation of Silence: Post-War American Jewry and the Memory of the Holocaust
Food and Community: Another Way to Look at American Jewish History
The Lower East Side: History and Memory
Jews and Blacks: A Twinned History?

Leonard Dinnerstein
Professor Emeritus, Judaic Studies
University of Arizona
Phone: 520-621-2422 Fax: 626-9064
Email: dinnerst@email.arizona.edu
Website: http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/history/faculty/faculty.php?id=619

Primary Topics:

The Leo Frank Case.
Anti-Semitism in America.
Immigration.
Displaced Persons.

Other Topics:

America and the Survivors of the Holocaust.

Marc Dollinger
Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Tel: (415) 497-0100 Fax: (415) 747-8011
Email: mdolling@sfsu.edu

Lecture Topics:

American Jewish liberalism
Jews, Blacks, and Civil Rights
Jews and Black Power
California Jews
Jews and the New Deal

Jay M. Eidelman
Historian
Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
Battery Park City
New York, NY 10280
Phone: 212-968-1800 x161 Fax: 212-968-1368
Email: jeidelman@mjhnyc.org

Primary Topics:

Revolution, Revival, and the Beginnings of American Judaism.
Jews and American Liberty.
Jewish Religious Practice in Early America.
Messianic Speculation in Early 19^th Century American Judaism.
Jewish Chefs and American Popular Culture.
Meals and Memories: Jewish Dining and New York City.

Other Topics:

Jews in Colonial and Early-National America.
Jews and American Politics.
Jewish Life and Culture in New York City.
Jewish Popular Culture.
Food and American Jewish Culture.
Canadian Jewish History.

Ellen Eisenberg
Dwight & Margaret Lear Professor of American History, Willamette University
900 State St.
Salem, OR 97301
Tel: 503-370-6197 Fax: 503-370-6944
Email: eeisenbe@willamette.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jewish Reinvention in the American West
To Cry Down Injustice? Western Jewish Responses to Japanese American Removal During WWII
Jews in the Western Ethnic Landscape
Western Jewry: A Case for Distinction
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in America
Portland Jewry and the Emergence of Ethnic Identity

Eli Faber
Professor of History. Editor, American Jewish History (Quarterly Journal of the AJHS)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (CUNY)
445 West 59th St.
North Hall Room 4317
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-237-8627
Email: efaber@jjay.cuny.edu

Primary Topics:

1654: The First Jewish Settlement in North America.
Colonial American Jewry - Any and All Aspects.
The Jews of America in the Era of the Early Republic - Any and All Aspects.
The Franks Family Portraits: The Saga of a Colonial American Jewish Household.
Jews and the Slave Trade: A Modern Calumny.

Other Topics:

The Jewish People in America, 1654-1820.
Jews, Slavery, and the Slave Trade in the Early-Modern World.

Henry L. Feingold
Professor Emeritus and Director of Jewish Resource Center
Baruch College, Graduate Center, CUNY
280 Ninth Avenue, Apt. 11F
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-242-4494
Email: hlfein@juno.com

Primary Topics:

From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the "Hard" Secularism of American Jewry.
Did American Jewry Fail During the Holocaust?
Can American Jewry Survive the Diminution of Israel?
Whither American Zionism?
The Remarkable Success Story of American Jewry, and the Price Paid.

Other Topics:

American Jewish History, 1920-1945.
The Soviet Jewry Movement in America, 1967-1989.
American Jewry and the Holocaust.
The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust.

Allon Gal
Professor, American Jewish History, Zionism, and Israel
Director, Center for North American Jewry
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Be'er Sheva 84105
Israel
Phone: 011-972-07-646-1052 Fax: 011-972-07-647-7664
Email: agal@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Primary Topics:

Israel-Diaspora Relationship Beyond Security and Philanthropy.
Henrietta Szold: The Legacy of Social Feminism and Humanistic Zionism.
David Ben-Gurion and Abba Hillel Silver: The Alliance That Created Israel.

Other Topics:

Louis D. Brandeis: His Zionist Development and Legacy.
American Aliyah: The Changing Patterns.

Joel Gereboff
Associate Professor and Faculty Head, Religious Studies
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Phone: 480-965-7738 Fax: 480-965-0310
Email: Joel.Gereboff@asu.edu

Lecture Topics:

Trends in American Jewish Bioethics
Collective Memory and the Construction of American Jewish Identity
Teaching History in American Jewish Education

Susan A. Glenn
Professor of History and Faculty Member, Jewish Studies Program
University of Washington
Department of History
Box 353560
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-523-5514 Fax: 206-543-9451
Email: glenns@u.washington.edu

Primary Topics:

"Self-Hating" Jews and "Inauthentic Negroes": The Ironies of Post-WW II Social Thought.
"In the Blood?": Consent, Descent, and the Ironies of Jewish Identity.

Other Topics:

20^th Century Jewish Identity.
Turn of the Century Jewish Immigration and Women's History.

Shalom Goldman
Professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern Studies
Emory University
S-307 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-2694 Fax: 404-727-2133
Email: slgoldm@emory.edu

Primary Topics:

The Hebrew Language in American History.
American Religious History and the Study of Hebrew.
Professor George Bush (1769-1859), American Professor of Hebrew.

Eric L. Goldstein
Assistant Professor, History and Jewish Studies
Director of Undergraduate Program in Jewish Studies
Emory University
221 Bowden Hall
561 South Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322-3651
Phone: 404-727-6555 Fax: 404-727-4959
Email: egoldst@emory.edu

Primary Topics:

Jews in America's Racial and Ethnic Mix.
Are Jews White? : A History.
Politics and the Identity of American Jews.
The Practical Idealist: Henrietta Szold, Zionism, and American Womanhood.
Origins of American Zionism.
Jews of the American South.
Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants and American Mass Culture.
The Cafés of the Lower East Side.
American Jewish Identity and the Moving Image: Film and Television.
Jewish Cemeteries: What they tell us.

Other Topics:

Racial and Ethnic Identity of American Jews.
Black-Jewish Relations.
American Zionism.
American Yiddish Culture.
American Jewish Politics.
American Jewish Popular Culture (Visual Media, Film & Television, Material Culture).
Jews of the American South.

Henry Green
Professor, and Director, Sephardic Studies Program
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248645
Coral Gables, FL 33124
Phone: 305-284-4375 Fax: (305) 284-2772
Email: hgreen@miami.edu

Primary Topics:

Miami Jewry.
Florida Jewry (Founder, Jewish Museum of Florida).
Ethnicity and Religion: Identity and Community.

Other Topics:

The Sephardic Jewish Experience in America.

Daniel Greene
Vice President for Research and Academic Programs, Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312-255-3535
Email: greened@newberry.org

Lecture Topics:

Horace Kallen and the Origins of Cultural Pluralism
The Melting Pot and American Pluralism
Jewish Students and College Admissions Quotas in the Early Twentieth Century
A Chosen People in a Pluralist Nation
The Intercollegiate Menorah Association: A History
A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Jeffrey S. Gurock, Ph.D.
Libby M. Klaperman Professor of American Jewish History, Yeshiva University
408 West 260th Street
Bronx, NY 10471
Phone: 718-884-3819 Fax: 718-601-1968
Email: gurock@yu.edu

Lecture Topics:

The American Jewish Home Front During World War II: A View from New York
American Judaism's Contemporary Scoreboard
Jewish Harlem: Past and Present
American Orthodoxy's Era of Non-Observance
An American Jewish Conspiracy Theory: Dr. Bernard Revel, Yeshiva and the Jewish Theological Seminary
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

Leo Hershkowitz
Professor of History
Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
146 Moore Avenue
Freeport, NY 11520
Phone: 516-868-2753 or 718-997-5378 Fax: 516-741-9178
Email: mbergerher@aol.com

Primary Topics:

Jews in Colonial New York.
A Colonial Jewish Woman -- Abigail Franks.
Asser Levy and the 17^th Century Jewish Contact in Dutch New York.
Americanization in 19^th Century Jewish New York.
Archives, Research, and New York Jewish History.

Adam Howard
Chief of the Middle East and Asia Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
L-409
2401 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20522
Phone: 202-663-3956 Fax: 202-663-1289
Email: howardam@state.gov

Lecture Topics:

History of American Jewry
History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
History of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
History of the Holocaust
History of Zionism
History of American labor and Jewish labor in Israel

Melissa R. Klapper
Professor of History, Rowan University
Book Review Editor, American Jewish History
40 Old Lancaster Road Apt. 101
Merion Station, PA 19066
Phone: (610) 667-1609
Email: klapper@rowan.edu

Lecture Topics:

A (Very) Brief History of American Jews (one, two, or three parts)
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women Activists
Jewish Women in America
Before Bat Mitzvah: The Early Religious Education of Girls in America
Have We Always Hated Hebrew School? A History of American Jewish Education
How are These Children Different From All Others? Jews and Other Immigrant Children at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Hannah Kliger
Professor of Communication and Jewish Studies
The Pennsylvania State University:
The Abington College
1600 Woodland Road
Abington, PA 19001
Phone: 215-881-7598 Fax: 215-881-7333
Email: hkp1@psu.edu

Primary Topics:

Home away from Home: Jewish Immigrant Associations in America.
From Trauma to Triumph: Exploring the Meaning of Memory for Holocaust Survivors and Their Families.
Communicating a Culture of Place: Memory and Identity Among Yiddish Speakers in New York.
Yiddish Comes to Washington: Yiddish Writers Study the Immigrant Community During America's Depression Years.
Between Two Worlds: The Organizational Dynamics of Life in the United States and Israel.

Alan M. Kraut, Ph.D.
University Professor & Professor of History
Department of History
143 Battelle Memorial Hall
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Tel: (o) 202-885-2410 (h) 202-333-0680
Email: akraut@american.edu

Lecture Topics:

Bias at the Bedside: The Jewish Hospital, An Institutional Response to Anti-Semitism in American Healthcare
Physicians at the Border: Ellis Island and the Arrival of Jewish Immigrants, 1892-1924
Epidemics and the Jews: The Stigmatization of an Immigrant Group
Health, Disease, and the Lower East Side: Jewish Immigrants and Their Environment
Goldberger and Gershwin: Two New York Jews Encounter the American South in the Early Twentieth Century
Deadly Deficiencies: Dr. Joseph Goldberger’s Battle Against Disease and Depravation in America’s Southland

Gail Levin
Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center and Baruch College, The City University of New York
Box B7-235, Baruch College, CUNY
1 Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 646-312-4062 Fax: 646-312-4051
Email: glevin@gc.cuny.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jewish Artists in America
Jewish Women Artists: From Theresa Bernstein and Sonia Delaunay to Deborah Kass
Lee Krasner: A View from Her Biographer and Friend
Alfred Stieglitz and his Circle: The Role of the Jews in the First American Avant-Garde
Beyond the Pale: Jewish Identity, Radical Politics, and Feminist Art in the United States
Abstract Expressionism: The Jewish Painters and Critics

Rhoda G. Lewin
Independent Scholar
3191 No. Brittlebush Lane
Tucson, AZ 85712-1363 (Oct. 15 - March 20)
Phone: 520-795-8522 Fax: 520-795-8525
Email: trlewin@aol.com
or
1200 Nicollet Mall, #201
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2410 (March 20 - Oct. 15)
Phone: 612-332-3400 Fax: 612-332-2500
Email: trlewin@aol.com

Primary Topics:

Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1850 to Today: Their Life in the "New World".
Holocaust History as Seen Through the Eyes of Survivors and American Liberators.
How to Research and Write Your Community History.
Everything You Need to Know About Oral History: How to Do an Interview, Why we Do Oral History, and Why We Trust It As "Real History".

Other Topics:

German Jewish Immigrants in Minneapolis: The Founding of Temple Israel and Other Reform Congregations.
The History of Jews in the American West.

Howard Markel, MD, PhD
George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine
Director, Center for the History of Medicine
The University of Michigan
102 Observatory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-647-6914
Email: howard@umich.edu

Lecture Topics:

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
New York's Jewish Lower East Side and the Typhus and Cholera Epidemics of 1892
The Rabbi with Trachoma: Ellis Island and the Jewish Immigrant Experience

Rafael Medoff
Founding Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
1200 G Street NW - Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 434-8994
Email: rafaelmedoff@aol.com

Lecture Topics:

The Jewish Vote in American Politics, from 1912 to 2012
They Spoke Out: Americans Who Promoted the Rescue of Jews from the Holocaust
FDR and the Holocaust
What Did They Print and When Did They Print It?: American Press Coverage of the Holocaust
Fighting for Zion: The Role of American Volunteers in the Creation of Israel
Teaching the Holocaust Through Cartoons and Comic Books

Ted Merwin
Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies
Director of the Asbell Center for Jewish Life
Dickinson College
East College 203-B
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: 717-245-1636 Fax: 717-254-8954
Email: merwin@dickinson.edu

Primary Topics:

The Golden Age of American Jewish Popular Culture (multimedia presentation).
Jazz Age Jews on Stage and Screen (multimedia presentation).
The Lower East Side Reprised (multimedia presentation).
Jews in Vaudeville (multimedia presentation).
The History of the New York Jewish Deli (multimedia presentation).
Unbuttoned: Clothes and the Making of American Jewish Culture (multimedia presentation).
Dysfunctions and Disillusions: The Jewish Family on the American Stage.
Jewface: Non-Jews Playing Jews on the American Stage (multimedia presentation).

Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
University of Michigan
2111 Thayer Bldg., Judaic Studies
202 S. Thayer Street
Ann Harbor, MI 48104-1608
Phone: 734- 763-9047 Fax: 734-936-2186
Email: ddmoore@umich.edu

Primary Topics:

Eating Ham for Uncle Sam: Jewish Soldiers in World War II.
Jewish Women in America: Historical Perspectives.
A Helluva Town: New York City in the 20^th Century. (Slide Lecture)

Other Topics:

Jewish Experience in Urban America: New York, Miami, Los Angeles.
World War II: Triumph or Catastrophe for American Jews?

Andrea Most
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies,
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
One Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3K7 Canada
Phone: 416-946-0828
Email: andrea.most@utoronto.ca

Primary Topics:

Jews and the American Musical Theater. (Specific talks on Oklahoma! and on Girl Crazy.)
Jews, Theatricality, and Modernity.

Other Topics:

American Jewish Literature
Jews and Theater
Immigrant History
Mary Antin and The Promised Land.
Contemporary Jewish Culture
Jews and Hollywood.
The Yiddish Theater in the Immigrant Community.

Pamela S. Nadell
Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History
Chair, Department of History, Director, Jewish Studies Program, American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8038
Phone: 202-885-2425 Fax: 202-885-6166
Email: pnadell@american.edu

Lecture Topics:

Building History: The National Museum of American Jewish History
Jewish Women and the Civil War
The Constellation Jewish Feminism
Women Who Would Be Rabbis

Monty Noam Penkower
Victor J. Selmanowitz Professor of Modern Jewish History
Touro College
Department of History
160 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-213-2230 Fax: 212-683-3281
Email: penkower@panix.com

Primary Topics:

At the Crossroads: American Jewry and the State of Israel.
American Jewry Faces the 21^st Century.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Palestine Dilemma.
The Allies and the Holocaust.
American Jewry and the Holocaust.

Norma Fain Pratt
Independent Scholar
395 East Palm Street
Altadena, CA 91001
Phone: 626-797-4478
Email: nfpratt@earthlink.net

Primary Topics:

Yiddish Women Writers.
The Jews in the American Labor Movement.
Gender themes in American Yiddish Literature.

Riv-Ellen Prell
Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
2700 Glenhurst Ave. S
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Phone: 612-624-4190
Email: prell001@umn.edu

Lecture Topics:

Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: The Making of a Cultural Revolution
How Feminism Remade American Judaism
Why has Social Justice Reemerged as a Key Issue in American Jewish Culture

Mark A. Raider, Ph.D.
Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Cincinnati
Visiting Professor of American Jewish History, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Department of History
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210373
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
Phone: 513-556-2150 Fax: 513-556-7901
Email: raiderma@uc.edu

Lecture Topics:

American Jews, Zionism, and Israel
Zionist History
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
American Jewish Leadership in the 20th Century
Jews and Blacks in 20th-Century America
The Merchant of Venice in Historical & Cultural Perspective

Marc Lee Raphael
Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies
Professor of Religion
College of William and Mary
2901 29^th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: 202-387-1512 or 626-797-4478
Email: mlraph@wm.edu

Primary Topics:

Conservative Judaism.
Reform Judaism.
Synagogue Worship.
Spirituality.
The Rabbinate.
What Do American Jews Believe?

Other Topics:

19^th Century Jews and Judaism.
20^th Century Jews and Judaism.

Ira Robinson
Professor, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard, West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3G 1M8
Phone: 514-848-2424 x2074 Fax: 514-848-4541
Email: ira.robinson@sympatico.ca

Lecture Topics:

"Who Is a Marrano?: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity"
"'A Strike in Heaven': the Rabbinic Community and the Jewish Labor Movement in 1930s Montreal"
"A Shohet's Spare Time: Chaim Kruger, Yiddish Journalism, and Jewish Studies in Montreal in the Interwar Period"
"The Dilemmas of Modern Orthodox Judaism"
"'The Other Side of the Coin': The Anatomy of a Public Controversy in the Montreal Jewish Community, 1931"
"'When Orthodoxy Was Not As Chic As It Is Today': American Modern Orthodoxy in Its Formative Years"

Dale Rosengarten
Curator, Jewish Heritage Collection
Robert Scott Small Library
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Phone: 843-953-8028 Fax: 843-953-8019
Email: rosengartend@cofc.edu

Primary Topics:

Southern Jewish Life: History of South Carolina.
Perils and Paradoxes of Exhibiting Jewish History.

Other Topics:

Southern Jewish History and Culture.
Creating Oral History Archives.
Collecting and Exhibiting Cultural Artifacts.

Nora L. Rubel
Assistant Professor of Religion & Classics
University of Rochester
425 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, NY 14627
Phone: 585-275-7215
Email: nrubel@mail.rochester.edu

Lecture Topics:
Primary Topics:

The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
The Settlement Cook Book and American Jewry
Food and American Judaism

Other Topics:

Blacks, Jews, and Black Jews
Religion and American Electoral Politics
Jews in the Mainstream Press

Jonathan D. Sarna
Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History
Chair, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University
Chief Historian, National Museum of American Jewish History
1215 Commonwealth Avenue
West Newton, MA 02465
Phone: 781-736-2977 Fax: 781-736-2070
Email: sarna@brandeis.edu

Lecture Topics:

An old faith in the new world: the history of American Judaism
That obnoxious order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews
George Washington's correspondence with the Jews of Newport [text study]
Looking Ahead: American Judaism in the 21st Century

Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Walter and Sarah Schlesinger Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Jewish Theological Seminary
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-678-8024
Email: ShSchwartz@jtsa.edu

Lecture Topics:

Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: The Evolution of American Jewry
They Married What They Wanted to Be: Rebbetzins in American Jewish Life
From Hank Greenberg to Heeb: How Jews Became Part of Mainstream America
"All in the Family" - Our Jewishness Past, Present-and Future
Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavors - How About American Judaism?
We've Come a Long Way, Baby: Feminism and American Judaism

June Sochen
Professor of History and Women's Studies Emerita, Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University
2720 Central St. Apt. 4B
Evanston, Il. 60201
(from December through April: 1673B Spoonbill Lane, Naples, Florida 34105)
Phone: (In Illinois: 847-733-0667) (In Florida: 239-262-2720)
Email: j-sochen@neiu.edu

Primary Topics:

Jewish Women in the U.S.
Jewish Women Reformers
Jewish Women in Popular Culture

Daniel Soyer
Professor of History, Fordham University
History Department
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
Phone: 718-941-3219 Fax: 718-817-4680
Email: soyer@fordham.edu

Lecture Topics:

Hometown Societies in the New World: Jewish Immigrant Landsmanshaftn in New York
To Unburden My Heart: Yiddish Immigrant Autobiographies
Jews and New York Politics
Jews and the New York Garment Industry

Lauren B. Strauss
Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Adjunct
The George Washington University - Program in Judaic Studies
2142 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-2168, 202-994-2190 (general office #)
Email: lstrauss@gwu.edu

Lecture Topics:

Jews and the American Political Tradition
Jews in American Popular Culture
Jewish Artists and Radical Politics in the early 20^th century
Yiddish Culture in America
The Jewish Woman in America
Jews on the Move: Travel and Change in the Modern World

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman
Senior Rabbi
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
8339 Old York Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027
Phone: 215-887-8702 Fax: 215-887-1070
Email: RabbiLJS@kenesethisrael.org

Primary Topics:

History of Judaism in America.
Reform Judaism.
Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia Jewish History.
The American Revolution in Judaism.

William Toll
Adjunct Professor, History Department, University of Oregon
4800 Brookwood Street
Eugene, OR 97405
Phone: 541-343-1042
Email: bill_toll@yahoo.com

Lecture Topics:

Jews of the Pacific Coast

Lee Shai Weissbach
Professor of History, University of Louisville
University of Louisville
Department of History
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: 502-852-3755 (office) Fax: 502-852-0770
Email: weissbach@louisville.edu

Lecture Topics:

Synagogue Buildings and the Patterns of American Jewish Life (Powerpoint illustrated).
American Synagogue Architecture: The Search for a Style (Powerpoint illustrated).
The Jewish History of Small-Town America (Powerpoint illustrated).
The Business of Jews in Small-Town America.
Ashkenaz in Small-Town America: 1880-1950.
A Century of Jewish Life in the South, 1850-1950.

Beth S. Wenger
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
208 College Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379
Phone: 215-898-5702 Fax: 215-573-2089
Email: wenger@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture Topics:

“Civics Lessons: Jews and American National Holidays”
“American Jewish Visions of ‘The Holy Land’”
“The Lower East Side in American Jewish Memory”
“Monuments and Markers: Jewish Heritage in Brick and Stone”
“Soldiers, Symbols and Service: The Narratives of Jewish Patriotism”
“Making American Jewish Men: Masculinity in the Immigrant Jewish World”

Stephen Whitfield
Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, Brandeis University
Mailstop #005
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Phone: 781-862-9305 (h) Fax: 781-736-3040
Email: swhitfie@brandeis.edu

Lecture Topics:

The Southern Jewish Experience
An Introduction to American Jewish Humor
Jews in the Shaping of Black Culture
Jews in the Shaping of American Music
American Jewish Culture
The Persistent Liberalism of American Jewry

Cornelia Wilhelm
LMU excellent Visiting Professor and LMU Liaison North America
Rutgers University
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
12 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 932-3575
Email: cwilhelm@rci.rutgers.edu

Primary Topics:

The Independent order of B'nai Brith and the Making of an American Jewish Identity, 1843-1914.
The United Order of True Sisters, 1846-1900: Early Jewish Womanhood and the Public Sphere.

Other Topics:

19^th Century German Jews and the Reform Movement and Secular Organizations.
20^th Century Nazi Propaganda Against American Jews.
German Refugees from Nazism.

Gary P. Zola
Professor, American Jewish Experience, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio
Executive Director, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio
c/o The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
3101 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Phone: (513) 221-1875, Ext. 3300 Fax: (513) 221-7812
Email: DrGPZ@aol.com

Lecture Topics:

Abraham Lincoln and American Jewry
Praying for our Side: Jewish Prayers during the Civil War
Jews, Civil Rights, and the American South
Ethical Wills: American Jewry Speaks from Beyond the Grave
American Hebraica: The Holy Tongue in the American Nation
The First American Jewish Reformation -- The Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston.

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