Leonard Dinnerstein
Leonard Dinnerstein (May 5, 1934 – January 22, 2019) was an American historian and author. He was a professor at the University of Arizona.
He was born in the Bronx, to parents Abraham and Lillian, née Kubrick. The Dinnerstein's were of Jewish descent, with ancestors from Austria, Romania, and 'the pale of the settlement' what became Belarus.
He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, and graduated from the City College of New York before pursuing further study in American history at Columbia University.
After completing his doctorate, Dinnerstein taught at New York Institute of Technology and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[1][2] He then joined the University of Arizona faculty as professor from 1970 to 2004.[3]
Dinnerstein died of complications from kidney failure at the age of 84, in Tucson, Arizona.[1]
Awards[]
1994: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for Antisemitism in America[4]
Books[]
- The Leo Frank Case, 1968. Columbia University Press
- Ethnic Americans : a history of immigration
- Antisemitism in America
- Jews in the South
- American vistas (1971)
- America and the survivors of the Holocaust (1982)
- Natives and strangers : a multicultural history of Americans [5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Roberts, Sam (January 31, 2019). "Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, Dies; Scholar of Anti-Semitism in U.S." New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^ Langer, Emily (February 1, 2019). "Leonard Dinnerstein, distinguished historian of anti-Semitism in America, dies at 84". Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^ Braun, Phyllis (February 1, 2019). "Leonard Dinnerstein, scholar of U.S. anti-Semitism and UA professor, dies at 84". Arizona Jewish Post. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81057154/
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