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Barry Trachtenberg is a historian and author who works as the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University.[1]
Education and career edit
Trachtenberg is originally from Newington, Connecticut. His parents were a salesman and a receptionist, and he was educated in the local public school system.[2] He is a 1991 graduate of Glassboro State College (now Rowan University). After earning a master's degree at the University of Vermont and a postgraduate diploma from the University of Oxford's Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he completed a Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
After lecturing at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2003, he obtained an assistant professorship there in 2004, and was promoted to associate professor in 2010. He moved to Wake Forest in 2016 as associate professor and Michael R. & Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History; in 2023 he was promoted to full professor. He directed the programs in Judaic Studies and Hebrew Studies at the University at Albany from 2010 to 2016, and the Jewish Studies Program at Wake Forest from 2017 to 2020.[3]
Books edit
Trachtenberg's books include:
- Trachtenberg, Barry (2008). The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5136-9.[4]
- Trachtenberg, Barry (2018). The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-6720-8.[5]
- Trachtenberg, Barry (2022). The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-1-9788-2549-9.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Barry Trachtenberg – Department of History". Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ ""A Genuine Gift": Barry Trachtenberg ('91) Remembers Days of Activism and Growth". Rowan University. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae". Retrieved 2024-05-05.
- ^ Reviews of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish:
- Marc Caplan, Comparative Literature Studies, doi:10.5325/complitstudies.48.1.0114, JSTOR 10.5325/complitstudies.48.1.0114
- Jeremy Dauber, Shofar, JSTOR 10.5703/shofar.29.1.181
- Sabine Haenni, "How to create a national literature", Twentieth Century Literature, JSTOR 41062473
- Kenneth Moss, East European Jewish Affairs, doi:10.1080/13501674.2010.494063
- David G. Roskies, Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 25), doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199793495.003.0012, [1]
- Jeffrey Veidlinger, Slavic Review, doi:10.1017/S0037677900017137, JSTOR 25621772
- ^ Reviews of The United States and the Nazi Holocaust:
- David Hamilton Golland, Journal of American History, doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz284
- Severin A. Hochberg, American Jewish History, doi:10.1353/ajh.2019.0034
- Rafael Medoff, H-Net Network on Judaica and Jewish History, [2]
- ^ Reviews of The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish:
- Miriam Chorley-Schulz, Central European History, doi:10.1017/S0008938923000948
- Lewis Glinert, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, doi:10.1080/01434632.2022.2127614
- Sonia Gollance, George L. Mosse Program in History, University of Wisconsin, [3]
- Allison Schachter, PaRDeS, doi:10.25932/publishup-58583
- Mark L. Smith, AJS Review, doi:10.1353/ajs.2023.a911553
- Samuel J. Spinner, In Geveb, [4]
- Jeffrey Veidlinger, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, doi:10.1093/hgs/dcad015