Barry Trachtenberg
Barry Trachtenberg is an American historian and professor, currently holding the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University.[1] As a Jewish scholar specializing in Jewish history, Trachtenberg has been an outspoken critic of both American support for Israel and Israeli policies.[2] [3][4]
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.[5] 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.[6]
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;[7] 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.[6][8]
Books[edit]
Trachtenberg has authored several academic books including The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (2008),[9][10] The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (2018),[11][12] and The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (2022),[13] contributing to the academic discourse on Jewish history.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ "Barry Trachtenberg – Department of History". Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "The New Kherem, or 'Barry Trachtenberg Does Not Represent Us!': On speaking for and against Jewish self-interests". Mondoweiss. 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-studies-professor-to-congress-no-anti-semitism-on-college-campuses-nothing-wrong-with-comparing-israel-to-nazis
- ^ Younes, Ali. "Critics call Israel's nation-state law 'provocative and racist'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ ""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.
- ^ https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20171107/106610/HHRG-115-JU00-Wstate-TrachtenbergB-20171107.pdf
- ^ "Trachtenberg, Barry". Wake Forest News. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ Trachtenberg, Barry (2008). The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5136-9.
- ^ 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
- ^ Trachtenberg, Barry (2018). The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-6720-8.
- ^ 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]
- ^ Trachtenberg, Barry (2022). The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-1-9788-2549-9.
- ^ 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
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- Historians of Jews and Judaism
- People from Newington, Connecticut
- Rowan University alumni
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University at Albany, SUNY faculty
- Wake Forest University faculty
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American Jews
- Historians from Connecticut