Employed:
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
(610) 330-5174

Home address:
3230 Highfield Circle
Bethlehem, PA 18017
(610) 882-2223

Department: History
Current Position: Professor and  Jewish Chaplain
Status: Married, three children
Born: Philadelphia, PA, 8/9/43
 

Education:

Hebrew Teaching Certificate, Gratz Hebrew College,

Philadelphia, PA, 1963

A.B., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1965, History Major

M.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1967, Modern Europe

Ph.D., Rutgers University, completed summer, 1973, "Paul Cambon and the Making of the Entente Cordiale"
 
 

College Teaching Experience:

Lafayette College, 1969-present (Department Head 1987-1993)

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Director, Contemporary Civilization Core, 1979-1987

Summer School Teaching at Baltimore Hebrew College Graduate School and Lehigh University (1978, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1991)
 

Courses Taught Recently:

Western Civilization

Contemporary World Civilization

Europe, 1850-1917

Europe, 1917-Present

World War I (film course)

The Origins of World War II (seminar)

Modern Jewish History

American Jewish History

French History and Literature: 1919-1945

Twentieth Century France

Europe Since 1945

Europe in A Global Age

The History of Politics and Modern Israel

(Interdisciplinary Interim Session Course in Israel)

The New Germany in a New Europe

(Interdisciplinary Interim Session Course, Berlin, Prague, Munich)
 
 
 
 

Recent Publications and Scholarly Presentations:
"French Jewish Images of America: The Case of Dijon," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting, XXV (1998), 79-87.

"French Jews and Israel: The Jews of the Dijon," paper presented at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, June 1997.

"Perceptions of Antisemitism and Selective Responses among the Jews of Dijon," paper presented at a "New Europe" Conference, York,England, August 1996.

"Coming of Age: The Jewish Community of Dijon," paper presented at the Western Society for French History Conference," Oct. 1994.

Panelist on a session entitled "The Vichy Syndrome," Western Society for French History Conference, Oct. 1993.

"Commentary, Jews and Protestants Under the Second Empire and Third Republic," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, XVII (1990), 413-15.

"Commentary, Nineteenth Century French Diplomacy and Imperial Expansion in the Middle East and Africa," Proceedings of the French Colonial Historical Society, XIII-XIV (1990), 179-83.

"Commentary, French Diplomacy and Imperialism in Egypt, Algeria, and Vietnam," Proceedings of the French Colonial Historical Society, XII-XIV (1990), 135-39.

"On Interviewing French Jews: The Case for Oral History," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, XVI (1989), 316-25.

"Perspectives on French Jewry in the 1980’s: Crisis and Renewal," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, XIII (1986), 251-60.

Recent Awards, Grants, and Summer Institutes

Lafayette College Student Government Superior Teaching Award for the Arts, 1998-1999.(also received in 1973-74, 1978-79, 1986-87, and 1989-90)

Lafayette College Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, 1996-1997

also received the Lafayette College Christian and  Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and Service to the college Community, 1974-1975

Columbia University Oral History Institute, Summer 1994

NEH Summer Seminar,"Europe Since 1945," NYU 1993

Lafayette College Student EXCEL Scholars, 1992-present, including five summers; two Lafayette College Committee on Advanced Study Grants (1993-1995) for work on "The Jews of Dijon".
 

Work In Progress

Essays on the Jews of Dijon and on the Contemporary French Jewish Community

Voices of French Jewry: The Jews of Dijon (an anthology of oral history interviews)
 
 

Languages:

French, Hebrew, German (basic knowledge)