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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 and was a specialist on Antisemitism in the United States.[1]

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, what became Belarus.

He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in New York City, and graduated from the City College of New York before pursuing further study in American history at Columbia University. His dissertation was directed by William Leuchtenburg.[2] In 1961, he married Myra Anne Rosenberg, who would become the founding director of the women's studies department at the University of Arizona.[3]

After completing his doctorate, Dinnerstein taught at New York Institute of Technology and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[2][4] He then joined the University of Arizona faculty as professor from 1970 to 2004.[5]

Dinnerstein died of complications from kidney failure at the age of 84, in Tucson, Arizona.[2]

Awards edit

1994: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for Antisemitism in America[6]

Books edit

  • 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 [7]

References edit

  1. ^ Gerber, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Roberts, Sam (January 31, 2019). "Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, Dies; Scholar of Anti-Semitism in U.S." New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Morlock, Blake (May 16, 2003). "Retiring UA Professors Leave Behind Thriving Legacy". Tucson Citizen. Tucson, Arizona. pp. 1A, 4A. Retrieved April 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Langer, Emily (February 1, 2019). "Leonard Dinnerstein, distinguished historian of anti-Semitism in America, dies at 84". Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  7. ^ http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81057154/[bare URL]

Further reading edit

  • Gerber, David A. "Leonard Dinnerstein (1934–2019): The Historian and His Subject." American Jewish History 105.1 (2021): 235-245. online

External links edit

  • Leonard Dinnerstein at IMDb  

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