Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the

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. He specializes in the social history of

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and in Anglo-Jewish history. He is the author of ''The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society'' (1979), ''Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History, 1656-1945'' (1990), and ''The Jews of Britain, 1656-2000'' (2002). __TOC__

Career

Endelman was awarded a B.A. in 1968 from the

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, and his Ph.D. in 1976 at

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. He taught at

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and

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, then moved to

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in 1985. While at the

, Endelman served as director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies intermittently for 11 years. During his tenure as director, there was a significant growth for the program, including the creation of a Masters program and the establishment of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies with a $20 million endowment. At the time, it was the largest gift ever given to a Jewish Studies program. He was succeeded as director by fellow historian

Deborah Dash Moore Deborah Dash Moore (born 1946, in New York City) is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Early li ...

in 2005. Endelman served as the Frankel Institutes's Head Fellow for the 2008–09 academic year.

Awards

1980:

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