Hasia Diner
Hasia R. Diner is an American historian. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of
American Jewish History
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; Professor of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies
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, History; Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
and Interim Director of Glucksman Ireland House NYU.
Life
Diner received a B.A. in 1968 from the
University of Wisconsin
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. She went on to earn an M.A. in 1970 from the
University of Chicago
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; and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the
University of Illinois at Chicago
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. Her PhD dissertation "In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935" was directed by Professor Leo Schelbert.
In 2002 she published ''Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present''.
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
Adam Kirsch (born 1976) is an American poet and literary critic. He is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, and has taught at YIVO.
Life and career
Kirsch was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He is the son of ...
, 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
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
—that the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewry’s collective consciousness."
Awards
* 2009-2010 OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program
*2009
National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.
Books
* ''The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora'', editor, (Oxford University Press, 2021)
*''1929: Mapping the Jewish World''. (NYU Press, 2013) (Winner of a 2013