Stephen J. Whitfield (born 1942) is the Max Richter Professor Emeritus of American Civilization at Brandeis University, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate there in 1972 until 2016. His main interests include 20-century American political and cultural history and American Jewish history.Stephen Whitfield. Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, Emeritus
profile @ Brandeis University"Stephen J. Whitfield"
''Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women'' Stephen Whitfield has also served as a visiting professor at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, the

University of Paris IV Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

(The Sorbonne) and the

Ludwig-Maximilians University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

of Munich. Since 1976 Whitfield was associated with the Southern Jewish Historical Society and he published a series of essays on the history of the Jews of Southern United States. He earned the following degrees: Brandeis University, Ph.D. (1972), Yale University, M.A., Tulane University, B.A.

Personal

Whitfield is the son of Jewish immigrants, a German-born father and Romanian-born mother, who escaped the Europe in 1938, before the Holocaust. The parents married in 1940. Stephen was born in 1942 and his only sibling (brother) was born in 1945. The family belonged to the Reform synagogue. Deborah R. Weiner
"“A Sense of Connection to Others”: A Profile of Stephen Whitfield"
''Southern Jewish History'', vol. 7, 2004 -- a detailed essay on Whitfield's research interests

Books

*2020: ''Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University'' *2003: ''Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: A History of

Fiddler on the Roof ''Fiddler on the Roof'' is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on ''Tevye and his Daughters'' (or ''Tevye the ...

'' *1999, 2001: ''In Search of American Jewish Culture'' *1991, 1996: ''The Culture of the Cold War' *1988, 1991: '' Death in the Delta; The Story of

Emmett Till Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery ...

'' *1988, 1996: ''American Space, Jewish Time'' *1984: ''Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought'' *1984: ''New World Crossword Dictionary'' *1984: ''A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald'' *1980: ''Into the Dark:

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born ...

and Totalitarianism'' *1974: '' Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism'' (Whitfield's 1972 Ph.D. thesis)"Whitfield Reflects on Living Through and Teaching American History"
by Julian Cardillo, December 13, 2016, Brandeis University NEws & Events

References

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