SERIES HISTORY ADVISORS
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Dr. Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science, and Preston R. Tisch, Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. His specialty is Russian Jewish History as it relates to general history. Some of his recent publications are: A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (Indiana University Press, second ed. 2001), Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Indiana University Press, 1997), The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe (University, Pittsburgh Press, 2003), Jewish Life After the USSR (Indiana University, Press, 2003).
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Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klapeman Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University. His specialty is Modern American History. Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock is the author or editor of thirteen books. His works include A Modern Heretic and A Traditional Community: Mordechai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism (Columbia U. Press, 1997). In 1998, A Modern Heretic was awarded the bi-annual Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book written in that field. Gurock served from 1982-2002 as associate editor of American Jewish History, the leading academic journal in that field. He is also a former chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society Gurock’s latest book; Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports (Indiana University Press, 2005).
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Dr. Monty Penkower, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Dept. of History, Touro College Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. His specialty is American Jewish History, Holocaust, and the History of Modern Israel. His recent publications include: The Jews Were Expendable: The Emergence of Zionist Thought (Peter Lang, 1991), and The Holocaust and Israel Reborn (U. of Illinois, 1994), and Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust (U. of Illinois, 1988). He received his Ph.D from Columbia University.
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Dr. Jane S. Gerber, Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at City University of New York. She is also the author of many books, including Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience, and other books. She was the president of the Association for Jewish Studies. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and teaches classes in Classics, History, and M.A. Liberal Studies Recent publications include: Anti-Semitism and the Muslim World.(1986), In History and Hate, The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism, Jewish Publications Society and The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience. (1994)
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Rabbi Marc D. Angel, Sephardic historian and author, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in NYC. His specialty is the history of Sephardic Jewry. He received his B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Th.D. honoris causa and his rabbinal semicha from Yeshiva University. He also has an M.A. in English Literature from City College of NY. Recipient of the Bernard Revel Award in Religion and Religious Education, he was also the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, and a member of the Editorial Board of “Tradition”. One of the many publications he wrote, A Sephardic Haggadah: Translation and Commentary (Hoboken, 1988) and La America:The Sephardic Experience in the US (Phil., 1982)
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Dr. Anita Shapira Ph.D., Professor Dept. of Jewish History, and the Ruben Merenfeld Chair on the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv University. Her specialty is the History of Zionism, the Jewish community in Palestine since 1882 and the State of Israel. Over the past four decades, Professor Shapira has participated in many academic projects of national importance, including the Weizmann Archives, Beit Hatefutsot (The Diaspora Museum), the National Council for Art and Culture, the Shazar Center, the Yitzchak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, the Weizmann Memorial Board of Governors and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, amVice – Chairperson of the Israeli Historical Society since 1982, she has served as the head of the Weizmann Institute on Zionist Research, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University and member of the National Planning and Grants Committee. Currently Head of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies. Her books include: Berl Katznelson, A Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Cambridge University Press, 1984, Visions in Conflict, Land and Power, The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948, Oxford University Press, Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right, 2002, Israeli Identity in Transitions, 2004, Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, 2007.
Professor Shapira has received numerous academic and professional awards and fellowships from Israeli and foreign universities, including Yale, Brandeis, City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, University of Toronto, Columbia and other universities and foundations throughout the world.
She was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for Jewish History in 2008.