Contributors
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Daniel Soyer is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University. His book, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (1997), was co-winner of the 1999 Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Suzanne Wasserman, whose Ph.D. is in American history, is associate direction of the Gotham Center for New York City History. She is completing a documentary film about her cousin, Janet Rosenberg Jagan, who was elected president of Guyana in 1997.
Julia Foulkes is a core faculty member of The New School University in New York City, where she teaches courses in twentieth century United States history. She is the author of the forthcoming Modern Bodies: Dance in American Modernism in the 1930s (UNC Press) and the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago (1997-98).
Joshua Zeitz is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at Brown University.
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Jeremy Dauber is assistant professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University, specializing in Yiddish literature.
Kathie Friedman is associate professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington where she teaches courses in the International Studies and the Jewish Studies Programs. She is author of Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Frederic Cople Jaher is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His most recent book is A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America
Melissa Klapper is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University. She is completing her dissertation on adolescent Jewish girls in America between 1860 and 1920.
Kenneth Libo joined Irving Howe in writing World of Our Fathers, and together they wrote We Lived There Too and How We Lived
Hubert G. Locke is dean and professor emeritus of the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Learning From History: a Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust
Abraham J. Peck is the director of research and institutional operations for the American Jewish Historical Society.
David M. Reimers is professor emeritus at New York University. He is the author of several books on immigration including, with Leonard Dinnerstein, Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration (4th ed., 1999). He is currently finishing a book on non-European immigration.
Ira M. Sheskin is associate professor of geography and regional studies and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at the University of Miami. His most recent book, How Jewish Communities Differ; Variations in the Findings of Local Jewish Population Studies, is jointly published by the North American Jewish Data Bank and the City University of New York.
Stephen Sicari, chair and associate professor of English at St. John's University, is the author of Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World .
Holly Snyder obtained her doctorate from the History of American Civilization Program at Brandeis University for her dissertation "'A Sense of 'Place': Jews, Identity and Social Status in Colonial British America, 1654-1831." She has contributed to Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1998) and the American Jewish Desk Reference and currently teaches American history at Northeastern University.
Shelly Tenenbaum is chair and associate professor of sociology at Clark University. She is the author of A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945 and co-editor, with Lynn Davidman, of Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies
William Toll received his doctorate in history at the University of California at Berkeley and currently teaches at the University of Oregon. His publications include The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class: Portland Jewry Over Four Generations and Women, Men and Ethnicity: Essays on the Structure and Thought of American Jewry
Chaim I. Waxman is professor of sociology and Jewish studies at Rutgers University. His most recent books include Historical Dictionary of Zionism, coauthored with Rafael Medoff, and Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective
Joellyn Wallen Zollman, a graduate student in Jewish history at Brandeis University, is writing a dissertation on the American synagogue gift shop...
