- Moses Rischin
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Moses Rischin (born 1925) is a United States Jewish historian, author, lecturer, editor, and Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University.[1][2] He coined the phrase New Mormon History in a 1969 article of the same name.[3] Rischin is from New York City.[citation needed] His undergraduate studies were at Brooklyn College.[4] Harvard University awarded him a Ph.D. in 1957.[5] In addition to his professorship, he sits on the board for the Journal of American Ethnic History and on the council of the American Jewish History Society.[6][7] There is an annual lecture given in his honor at the Western Jewish History Center, where he is director.[8][9] There is a collection of historical essays published in Rischin's honor,[10] and a supporting character in Meyer Meyer may have been partly modeled after him.[11]
Rischin is considered an authority on American ethnic and immigration history[12][13] and a pioneer in the field of American Jewish history.[14] Historian Selma Berrol, however, has challenged the minimal treatment Rischin has given the tensions between earlier German Jews and later Russian Jews in America.[15]
During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rischin was a signatory of "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" wherein 400 historians criticized efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton.[16][17]
Contents
Books
- The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914 (Harvard University Press)
- Jews of the American West, with John Livingston (Wayne State University Press) ISBN 0-8143-2171-2
Articles and essays
- “The New Mormon History,” American West 6, March 1969, 49.
- "The Jewish Experience in America: A View from the West"
- Foreword to California Jews (2003) Brandeis University Press
See also
References
- ^ My Jewish Learning: The Lower East Side
- ^ Lehrhaus Judaica - The Adult School For Jewish Studies
- ^ http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/issues/123/123-28-32.pdf
- ^ Bulletin-Faculty R & S
- ^ http://bss.sfsu.edu/history/Advising%20Materials/Program%20Booklets/Booklet-graduate.pdf
- ^ Browse Journals
- ^ AJHS: Academic Council Member
- ^ eelchron_dec05_final.indd
- ^ j. - Jewish history center marks three decades of capturing the past
- ^ An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History : In Honor of Moses Rischin by Jeffrey S. Gurock and Marc Lee Raphael (Carlson Publishing, 1996)
- ^ Daniel Traister's Home Page-MEMORY
- ^ "Utopia as a camouflage : The case of Abe Cahan and his legacy
- ^ "Abigail Rischin, David A. Moss". The New York Times. 1993-06-07. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DD123BF934A35755C0A965958260. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ^ Western Jewish History Center || The Magnes
- ^ Jason Schulman
- ^ Salon Newsreal | "Historians in Defense of the Constitution"
- ^ The Washington Post. 1998-10-30. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/petition102898.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
External links
- Works by or about Moses Rischin in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Categories:- 1925 births
- Anthologists
- Cultural historians
- Harvard University alumni
- Historians of Jews and Judaism
- Historians of the American West
- Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement
- Jewish American historians
- Living people
- Magazine writers
- San Francisco State University faculty
- Writers from California
- American essayist stubs
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