Hasia R. Diner is an American historian. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University[1] and Interim Director of Glucksman Ireland House NYU.[2]

Hasia Diner

Academic work

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In 2002 she published Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present.[3]

In 2009 she published We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962. According to Adam Kirsch, the book "drive(s) a stake, once and for all, through the heart of a historical falsehood that has proved remarkably durable. This is the notion that, as Diner’s subtitle has it, American Jews were initially 'silent' about the Holocaust—that the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewry's collective consciousness."[4]

Diner retired from her New York University professorship in 2023.[5]

Life

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Diner (born 1946) received a B.A. in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin. She went on to earn an M.A. in 1970 from the University of Chicago; and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her PhD dissertation "In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935" was directed by Professor Leo Schelbert.[6]

Awards

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Books

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora, editor, (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • 1929: Mapping the Jewish World. (NYU Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-4798-7825-3 (Winner of a 2013 National Jewish Book Award)


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References

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  1. ^ "Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History". New York University. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "Faculty: Hasia R. Diner". New York University. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
  3. ^ Hasia Diner, Beryl Benderly (2002). Her Works Praise Her: A History Of Jewish Women In America From Colonial Times To The Present. Basic Books. ISBN 0-4650-1711-8.
  4. ^ Kirsch, Adam (June 23, 2009). "All Quiet; Were postwar American Jews really 'silent' about the Holocaust?". Tablet Magazine.
  5. ^ Kranson, Rachel; Koffman, David S.; Fox, Sandra (November 29, 2023). "How scholar Hasia Diner exploded myths and changed the field of Jewish history: A symposium". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  6. ^ See Hasia Diner, "In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935" (1975)
  7. ^ "The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program: Hasia Diner". Organization of American Historians. oah.org. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  8. ^ a b "National Jewish Book Award | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  9. ^ "Fellows: Hasia R. Diner, 2010". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved 2017-02-12.