Jerold Auerbach (born 1936) is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at
Wellesley College
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.
Auerbach earned the B.A. at
Oberlin College
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and the Ph.D. at
Columbia University
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in 1965.
He taught at
Queens College
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and at
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
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before joining the Wellesley faculty in 1971.
[
Writing in the ]Harvard Law Review
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, Judge Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., described Auerbach's ''Unequal Justice'' (1976) as having, "a cogency built on careful scholarship not impaired by fanaticism."[ Not all reviews were as complimentary. ]Yale Law School
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professor Joseph W. Bishop, writing in Commentary
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, accused Auerbach of having "marred his argument by suggestion of the false, suppression of the true, distortion of his adversaries' arguments, and the frequent use of half-truth and sometimes simple untruth". A New York Times
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book review by Harvard law
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Each class ...
professor Alan Dershowitz was more favorable.
Books
* ''Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016)'' (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
* ''Against the Grain: A Historian's Journey,'' (Quid Pro Books, 2012)
* ''Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena,'' (Quid Pro Books, 2011)
* ''Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel,'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
* ''Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land,'' (New Mexico, 2006)
* ''Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel,'' (Rutgers, 2001)
* ''Jacob's Voices,'' (Southern Illinois, 1996)
* ''Rabbis and Lawyers,'' (Indiana, 1990)
* ''Justice Without Law?'' (Oxford, 1983)
* ''Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America.'' (Oxford, 1976)
* ''Labor and Liberty.'' (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)
References
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1936 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Wellesley College faculty
Oberlin College alumni
Columbia University alumni
Queens College, City University of New York faculty
Brandeis University faculty
American male non-fiction writers