Todd M. Endelman (born 1946) is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the

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. He specializes in the social history of Jews in Western Europe 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

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program. He was succeeded as director by fellow historian Deborah Dash Moore in 2005. Endelman served as the Frankel Institutes's Head Fellow for the 2008–09 academic year.

Awards

1980:

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in the Jewish History category for ''The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society''

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