Hasia Diner Hasia R. Diner is an American historian. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of

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; Professor of Hebrew and

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, History; Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at

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and Interim Director of Glucksman Ireland House NYU.

Academic work

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

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, 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

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—that the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewry's collective consciousness." Diner retired from her New York University professorship in 2023.

Life

Diner (born 1946) received a B.A. in 1968 from the

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. She went on to earn an M.A. in 1970 from the

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; and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the

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. Her PhD dissertation "In the Almost Promised Land: Jewish Leaders and Blacks, 1915-1935" was directed by Professor Leo Schelbert.

Awards

* 2009-2010 OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program *2009

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of qual ...

for ''We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962'' * 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship *2013

for ''1929: Mapping the Jewish World''

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

)
''We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962''
NYU Press, 2009, (Winner of a 2009

)
''The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000''
University of California Press, 2006,
''Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration''
(Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2002)
''Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present''
(with Beryl Lieff Benderly) (New York: Basic Books, 2002)
''The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America.''
(Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2000.) * ''American Jews ''(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). (Part of a series for young readers) -Reissued, 2003, a
''A New Promised Land: A History of the Jews in America''
Oxford University Press US, 2003,
''In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks. 1915-1935''
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 ; reissue of 1977 edition Greenwood Press, 1977,
online review

''A Time for Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration''
Vol. 2 in, ''The Jewish People in America'', Henry Feingold, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
''Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century''
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)
''Women and urban society: a guide to information sources''"> ''Women and urban society: a guide to information sources''
(Gale Research Co., 1979)

External links

Hasia Diner Papers
at New York University Archives

References

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