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With the end of the academic year approaching and my newfound popularity (especially among the freshmen class ;) ), I felt it would be a good time to tell you loyal followers a little something about myself. I am boring though, lol.
I was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1944. I went to high school in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1961. OMG, I am so OLD!
I earned concurrent bachelor's degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. But I wish I went to Brandeis, LOL!! I didn't come here until 1971.
I was the first professor of Jewish history at the University of Michigan, where I established the program in Judaic Studies. I <3 JEWS!!!
In 1982, I became the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. (Yay, Brandeis!)
I am the author of over ninety articles and twenty books in various languages. My book Jew in the Modern World is one of the most widely adopted college texts in modern Jewish history. My two-volume biography of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, has won many prizes in Israel and the United States and my latest book, co-authored with the late Ben Halpern, titled Zionism and the Creation of a New Society, was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and re-issued in a revised paperback edition by Brandeis University Press.
(Not that I like to brag, or anything.)
I was appointed by President Clinton (OMG I hope I am as good a president as him!!) to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
I am married to Shulamit Reinharz (sorry girls, lol), professor of sociology and director of Women's Studies and the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. I have two daughters, Yael and Naomi.
I am going to miss all the cool new people I met this year at Brandeis!! I <3 you all so much!
KIT, you guys.
I was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1944. I went to high school in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1961. OMG, I am so OLD!
I earned concurrent bachelor's degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. But I wish I went to Brandeis, LOL!! I didn't come here until 1971.
I was the first professor of Jewish history at the University of Michigan, where I established the program in Judaic Studies. I <3 JEWS!!!
In 1982, I became the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. (Yay, Brandeis!)
I am the author of over ninety articles and twenty books in various languages. My book Jew in the Modern World is one of the most widely adopted college texts in modern Jewish history. My two-volume biography of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, has won many prizes in Israel and the United States and my latest book, co-authored with the late Ben Halpern, titled Zionism and the Creation of a New Society, was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and re-issued in a revised paperback edition by Brandeis University Press.
(Not that I like to brag, or anything.)
I was appointed by President Clinton (OMG I hope I am as good a president as him!!) to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
I am married to Shulamit Reinharz (sorry girls, lol), professor of sociology and director of Women's Studies and the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. I have two daughters, Yael and Naomi.
I am going to miss all the cool new people I met this year at Brandeis!! I <3 you all so much!
KIT, you guys.