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157 About the Author Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies (www.WymanInstitute.org), which focuses on issues related to America’s response to the Holocaust. Dr. Medoff is the author of seven books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and the history of American Jewry, including, most recently, A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust (coauthored with David S. Wyman). His textbook Jewish Americans and Political Participation was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2003 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine. He has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere and served as associate editor of the scholarly journal American Jewish History. His essays have appeared in numerous academic journals, and he has authored entries for many reference volumes, including American National Biography and the Encyclopedia Judaica. ...

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