Jerold Auerbach (born 1936) is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College. His work principally addresses the modern history of the legal profession, Native Americans, and

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and the Jewish people. Auerbach earned the B.A. at

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and the Ph.D. at

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in 1965. He taught at Queens College and at

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before joining the Wellesley faculty in 1971. Writing in the

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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.

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professor Joseph W. Bishop, writing in Commentary, 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

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book review by Harvard law 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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