New York University, United States
Prof. Dr. Hasia R. Diner, Emerita
Professor Emerita of History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Department of History
Official University Profile: New York University – Hasia R. Diner
Expertise: American Jewish History; Jewish Immigration; Jewish Communities in the United States; American Immigration History; Jewish Women’s History; Holocaust Memory; Ethnic History; Modern Jewish History.
Member of Editorial Board of European Hebrew Journal
CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Profile
Prof. Dr. Hasia R. Diner is Professor Emerita in the Department of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She previously served as Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History and is internationally recognized as one of the leading historians of American Jewish life.
Her scholarship examines the history of Jewish immigration to the United States, the development of American Jewish communities, ethnic identity, women’s history, food history, Holocaust memory, and the interaction between Jewish and American culture.
Throughout her academic career, Prof. Diner has authored numerous influential books that have reshaped the study of American Jewish history and immigration. Her work combines social history, cultural history, and archival research to explore the experiences of Jewish communities from the colonial period to the present.
QUALIFICATIONS
1968
B.A. in History, University of Wisconsin.
1970
M.A. in History, University of Chicago.
1975
Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois at Chicago.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Professor Emerita, Department of History, New York University.
Professor Emerita, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.
Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.
Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland.
Fulbright Professor, University of Haifa.
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute.
Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research, Princeton University.
RESEARCH
Prof. Diner’s research focuses on the history of Jews in the United States, emphasizing immigration, ethnicity, gender, urban history, and cultural identity. She has explored how Jewish immigrants adapted to American society while preserving religious, social, and cultural traditions.
A major aspect of her scholarship concerns Holocaust remembrance in the United States, demonstrating how American Jews publicly commemorated the Holocaust well before the 1960s. Her work has significantly influenced modern interpretations of American Jewish memory and identity.
She has also written extensively on food history, Irish and Italian immigration, women’s history, philanthropy, and the broader immigrant experience in America.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
American Jewish History
Jewish Immigration
American Immigration History
Modern Jewish History
Jewish Women’s History
Ethnic History
Holocaust Memory
Jewish Communities in the United States
Urban History
Food History
Cultural History
Social History
Jewish Identity
American Religious History
HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Member, American Academy of Jewish Research.
Member, Society of American Historians.
Guggenheim Fellow.
Fulbright Professor.
Numerous awards for contributions to American Jewish history.
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Publications
The Jews of the United States, 1654–2000. University of California Press.
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Harvard University Press.
We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962. New York University Press.
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. Yale University Press.
Immigration: An American History. (with Carl J. Bon Tempo).
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915–1935.
Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present.
Numerous articles on American Jewish history, immigration, women’s history, Holocaust memory, and ethnic history published in leading scholarly journals and edited volumes.