Hasia R. Diner

Paul And Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History

Teaching and Scholarship

What would you like prospective grad students to know about you, your teaching, and your scholarship?
My email is hasia.diner@nyu.edu. You can ask me anything.

What types of undergraduate courses do you teach and why might students be interested in these classes?
My courses seek to place the history of the Jews in the United States into a variety of contexts, including the larger history of the United States and the history of the Jews in other lands at the same time. They place the experience of Jews as an American immigrant and ethnic group into the broader history of immigration and ethnicity in the United States and they link the history of Judaism in America into the history of American religion and in particular, into the history of other minority religions. Gender and the history of women plays a prominent feature in these courses. 

Education

University of Illinois-Chicago, PhD 1976; University of Chicago, MA 1970

Areas of Research/Interest

American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history

Fellowships/Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship (2011); Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research, Princeton University, (2002 – 2003); Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research, Fellow (elected); Society of American Historians, Member (elected)

Interviews

8/22/2019 interview on WNYC Studios' The Takeaway, regarding anti-Semitism and Jewish history

09/16/2019 Interview on the "Talking Hart Island" podcast, regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

 

 

 

08/16/19 Interview on the "Talking Hart Island" podcast, regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 
08/16/19 Interview on the "Talking Hart Island" podcast, regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 
08/16/19 Interview on the "Talking Hart Island" podcast, regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 
08/16/19 Interview on the "Talking Hart Island" podcast, regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 

Books

Articles

“Buying and Selling ‘Jewish’: The Historical Impact of Commerce on Jewish Communal Life,” Imagining in the Jewish American Community, Jack Wertheimer, ed. (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2007). pp. 28-44.

“The Local and the Global: Lombard Street and the Modern Jewish Diaspora,” Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore. Deborah Weiner, Anita Kassof, and Avi Y. Decter, eds. (Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2007). pp 10-21.

“American Immigration and Ethnic History: Moving the Field Forward, Staying the Course,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25, 4 (Summer) 2006. pp 130 – 141.

“Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History: Peddlers and the American Jewish South,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), pp. 1 – 30.

“The Vanishing Middle Ground: Religion and Culture: Views of 10 Scholars,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2004.

“American Jewish History,” Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, Martin Goodman, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). pp. 471 – 490. 

“American West, New York Jewish,” Jewish Life in the American West, Ava Kahn, ed. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003). pp. 33 – 51. 

“Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception,” Key Texts in American Jewish Culture, Jack Kugelmass, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003). pp. 210 – 222.