David N. Myers
UCLA Department of History
(310) 825-3780
Fax (310) 206-9630
email: myers@history.ucla.edu
(Updated: January 2011)
PROFESSIONAL:
2010- Chair. Department of History,
2001-
Professor of Jewish History. Department of History,
1996-2001 Associate
Professor of Jewish History. Department
of History, University of
1992-95 Assistant
Professor of Jewish History. Department
of History,
1991-92
Lecturer.
Department of History,
2003
(May) Professeur invité. École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales.
1995
(Sept.) Visiting Professor of Jewish
History.
EDUCATION:
1985-91
Ph.D (with distinction),
May 1991; Department of History (Jewish History).
M.Phil., May 1988; M.A., May 1987.
1984‑85
Ph.D candidate;
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
1982‑83 Tel‑Aviv
University; Tel‑Aviv,
M.A. candidate; Department of
Jewish History.
1981-82
1978-80 A.B.
cum laude, May 1982. Near Eastern Languages and Literature.
1977-78
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
2009-10
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow,
2008- Elected Fellow,
2008-09 Grant, UC/Utrecht University
Collaborative Grant Program.
2007-09
Book publication grant, “Europaische Traditionen
– Enzyklopädie
jüdische Kulturen,” Saxon Academy of Sciences (Collection of sources by
Simon Rawidowicz).
2007 Publication subvention, Lucius
N. Littauer Foundation.
2004-05: “UCLA in LA” Community Partnership
Grant (History of the Jews in Los
Angeles).
1997
(fall) Visiting Scholar, Institute
for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1995
(spring) Fellow, Center for Judaic
Studies,
1994-95 Leo Baeck Institute/DAAD Fellowship
in German-Jewish History.
1992-93
1992- UCLA Academic Senate Faculty
Research Grant.
1989-91 Charlotte
W. Newcombe Foundation Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship.
Fulbright‑Hays
Doctoral Dissertation Grant.
Lady Davis Trust
Doctoral Fellowship.
National Foundation for
Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship.
Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship.
President's Fellowship,
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
(Authored)
Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish
Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History.
Resisting History: Historicism and its
Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton:
Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon
Rawidowicz.
Books (Edited)
David N. Myers and William V. Rowe, eds. From
Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and
Contemporary
Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community, introduction by D. N.
Myers.
PA:
David
N. Myers and David B. Ruderman, eds. The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern
Jewish Historians, introduction by D. N. Myers.
Elisheva
Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers, eds. Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim
Yerushalmi.
Richard
Hovannisian and David N. Myers, eds. Enlightenment
and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases.
Michael Brenner and David N.
Myers, Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung
heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen.
David N. Myers et. al. Acculturation
and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience between Integration and
Exclusion.
Pini Dunner and David N. Myers, "A Haredi Attack on Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: A Battle over the Brisker Legacy," Jewish Quarterly Review 105 (Winter 20105), 131-138.
"Six Theses on the Sustainability of a Minority Culture in a Majority Society: The Jewish and Muslim Cases" Muslim World 104 (2014), 397-400.
"'Commanded War': Three Chapters in the 'Military' History of Satmar Hasidism," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2013; doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfs101
“Reflecting on the Jewish Condition in the Kaffeehaus,” Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007 (Berlin, 2012), 113-118
La ‘Civilisation’ aprčs Mordecai Kaplan: Sur l’idée d’une entité juive globale aujourd’hui in Shmuel Trigano, ed. La civilisation du judaďsme de l'exil ŕ la diaspora (Paris, 2012), 39-50
"She'elat ha-pelitim: mabat hadash `al zikaron ve-shikhekhah" (The Refugee Question: A New Look at Remembrance and Forgetting), in Meir Chazan and Uri Cohen, eds. Tarbut, zikaron ve-historyah be-hokarah le-Anita Shapira (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 2012), 655-669.
“A Novel Look at Moshe Idel's East-West Problem" Jewish Quarterly Review 102:2 (Spring 2012), 289-296.
“Rethinking the Jewish Nation: An Exercise in Applied Jewish Studies," Habruta 6 (Winter 2011), 26-33.
“Jenseits
des Einfluesses: Hin zu einer neuen Kulturgeschichte?”
Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 18/19
(2009), 495-507.
“Kitaj’s Napkin Map.” Jewish Quarterly Review 99:4 (Fall 2009) 547–550
“Ben Yisrael le-`amim:
hirhurim `al matsav limude ha-historyah ha-yehudit be-Yisrael” (Between
“Philosophy
and Kabbalah in Wissenschaft des Judentums: Rethinking
the Narrative of Neglect.” Studia Judaica (
“Simon
Rawidowicz on the Arab Question: A Prescient Gaze into the ‘New History.’” Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner, Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends
in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Michael
A. Meyer (
“Discourses
of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif.”
Jeremy Cohen and Richard I. Cohen, eds. The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (
“Glaube und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship in German-Jewish Culture.”
Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness, edited by A. Gotzmann
and C. Wiese (
“R.
B. Kitaj and the State of ‘Jew-on-the-Brain.’” The
Jewish Role in American Life 5 (2007), 69-73.
“Can
there be a Principled Anti-Zionism?:
On the Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism
in Modern Jewish Thought.” Journal of Israeli History 25 (March 2006),
33-50.
“A
Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon
Rawidowicz ‘On Interpretation.’” History and Literature: New
“Selbstreflexion
im modernen Erinnerungsdiskurs.” Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen,
Positionen, Kontroversen.
“Rebel
in
“Between Yiddish
and Hebrew—and Greek? Thoughts on the Language(s) of Jewish History.”
Commentary to roundtable
discussion in Jewish Book Annual 55/56 (1997-1999), 45-52.
“Hazono
shel Hazony, or Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream.”
“Hermann Cohen and
the Quest for Protestant Judaism.” Leo Baeck
Institute Year Book 46 (2001), 195-214.
'Mehabevin
et ha-tsarot': Crusade Memories and Modern Jewish Martyrologies."
Jewish History 13:2 (Fall 1999), 49-64.
Introduction
and commentary, Enlightenment and Diaspora:
The Armenian and Jewish Cases (
“Derrida’s
Yerushalmi, Yerushalmi’s Freud: History, Memory and Hope in a Post-Holocaust
Age.”
La Sho’ah tra intrepetazione e memoria (
“Response
to Jay Harris’
"Mashber
ha-historicism u-misud mada`e ha-Yahadut" (The Crisis of Historicism
and the Institutionalization of Jewish Studies).
Mada`e ha-Yahadut (Journal
of the World Union of Jewish Studies) (Fall 1998).
"Of
Marranos and Memory: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History."
Jewish
History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, (Hanover, NH, 1998), 1-21.
Introduction
and "Between Diaspora and
Introduction
and "'The Blessing of Assimilation' Reconsidered: An Inquiry into
Jewish Cultural Studies," From
Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the
Jewish Community (Scranton, PA, 1997), vii-xviii, 17-36..
"The
Ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums." Daniel Frank and Oliver Leaman, eds., History of
Jewish Philosophy (
"A
New Scholarly Colony in
1996),
142-159.
"'Distant
Relatives Happening onto the Same
and Cultural
Ideal." Jewish
Social Studies I:2 (1994/95), 75-100.
“Was
there a ‘
"Eugen
Täubler: The Personification of 'Judaism as Tragic Existence'." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (39) 1994,
131-150.
In
Search of the "Harmonious Jew":
Memorial
Lecture.
"The
Fall and Rise of Jewish Historicism: The Evolution of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des
Judentums (1919-1934)."
"Remembering
Zakhor: A Super-Commentary."
History and Memory 4 (Fall/Winter 1992),
129-146.
Nomi
Maya Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "Community,
Constitution and Culture: The Case of the Jewish Kehilah."
"History
as Ideology: The Case of Ben Zion Dinur, Zionist Historian 'Par Excellence'."
Modern Judaism, May 1988, 167‑194.
"The
Scholem‑Kurzweil Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography." Modern
Judaism, October
1986,
261‑285.
"Between
Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David
N. Myers," AJS Review 34 (2010), 495-403. AJS Review, 34:2
(2010), 400-403.
“Victory
and Sorrow,” review of Khirbet Khizeh
by S. Yizhar. The New Republic, October 22, 2008, 44-47.
Review
of The Jewish Century by Yuri
Slezkine.
Review of Mémoire juive et nationalité
allemande: Les juifs berlinois ŕ la Belle Époque by Jacques
Ehrenfreund. Jewish History, fall 2003.
"Ha‑Yahadut
ha‑reformit: teguvah yehudit le‑modernah." Ha -Doar,
2.24.89, 14‑17. (Review essay
of
Michael A. Meyer, Response to Modernity.)
Review
of Fateful Months: Essays on the
Emergence of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning. Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1988.
Review
of Political Principles in Maimonidean
Halakha (Hebrew) by Gerald J. Blidstein. AJS
Review, Fall 1987, 282‑290.
Review
of Hitler and the Armenian Genocide
by Kevork Bardakjian. Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1987.
"Geschichte" (entry) in Enzyklopädie jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, vol. II, 437-450
“The
Fading Faith of a Jewish Moral Exceptionalist.”
Sh’ma 40/664 (Nov. 2009), 5-6.
“What
does Kiryas Joel Tell Us about Liberalism in
“R. B.
Kitaj (1932-2007) and the Jewish Archive.”
American Art (Summer 2008),
98-100.
“R.
B. Kitaj and the Idea of ‘Jewish Art.’”
R. B. Kitaj: Passion and Memory (Exhibition catalogue from the
Editor’s
Introductions in the Jewish Quarterly
Review 94: 1 (2004),
94:4 (2003); 95:
3 (2005), 97:4 (2007), 99:4 (2009).
Section
Introduction, Western State Jewish
History (special issue devoted to Pioneer Jews of Los Angeles in the
Nineteenth Century) 38 (Spring/Summer 2006), 154-156.
Roundtable
Special Feature: “The Israeli Settlements.”
Yale
Interview,
“Zu ‘Diaspora’ und den ‘Segnungen der Assimilation.’” Kalonymus
4 (2001), 23-27.
Entries
in The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion,
Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Zeman
Yehudi hadash.
"Dual
Loyalty in a Post-Zionist Era". Judaism, summer 1989, 333-343.
Historical
Appendix in Reuven Porat, The History of
the Kibbutz: Collective Education, 1904-1929.
Opinion
pieces in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, the Jewish Forward, Los Angeles
Times, and Agos (
RECENT LECTURES
“Between the Deprivatization of Religion and Neo-Secularism: Lessons
Learned from
Concluding Remarks, conference on “Secularism and its Discontents: The
View from Jewish Studies.”
Panel Discussion, Moshe Idel, Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism
and Twentieth-Century Thought,
“Past and Present: Why History Matters.” Conference,
“Civilization" after Mordecai Kaplan: On the Prospects of a Global
Jewish Collective Today.” Lecture, 150th
Anniversary Conference of the
“Between Sacred and Profane: Jews and the
Panel discussion, “Jewish
History and Jewish Thought.” Session
sponsored by the
Conference Summary,
“Transforming Berlin’s Urban Space.”
Conference, Freie Universität
“The Political-Theological Origins of
“The Kingdom is Divided: Kiryas Joel, Malkhus
Satmar,
and the Legacy of Hungarian Sectarianism.”
Lecture, International Conference,
“The Concept of Influence in Modern Jewish
History: A Response to Moshe Rosman.”
Lecture, World Congress of Jewish Studies.
“Ha-im
kayemet umah yehudit? (Does a Jewish Nation Exist?)” Lecture, World Congress of Jewish
Studies.
“Kiryas
Joel between Religion and Politics.”
Lecture (with Nomi Stolzenberg), “For God’s Sake: Religion and Politics
in the West.”
“The
Jewish Question as Arab Question.” The
Paul Spiegel Lecture.
“The
Palestinian Refugees as a Jewish Question.”
Lecture, Weinstein/Mosse Center for Jewish Studies.
“After
“Remembrance
of Things Past: The Place of History and Historians in Modern Jewish Culture.” The Eckstein Lecture in Jewish Studies.
“Jewish
Studies in the University: Provincial or Global?”
“The Curious Case of Kiryas
Joel.” The Max Weber Forum, The European
University Institute,.
“An American Shtetl: Politics
and Piety in Kiryas Joel.” Lecture
series on Synagogue and State. The Menasseh
Ben Israel Institute.
“Von Dubnow zu Rawidowicz. Über eine jüdische Nation
jenseits des Nationalstaats.” The Ninth
Annual Simon Dubnow Lecture. The Simon
Dubnow Institute.
“On the Idea of a Jewish Nation: Before and Beyond
Statism.” Presentation at UC-Utrecht
Symposium on Jewish Politics and Political Behavior. UCLA.
October 12, 2008.
“From ‘Holy Community’ to
“The Refugee Question: A New Look at Remembrance and
Forgetting.” International conference on “History and Memory” in Honor of Anita
Shapira.
“Rethinking
Jewish Collectivity: What was the Jewish Nation? What is the Jewish Nation?” The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in
Judaic Studies.
“Philosophy
and Kabbalah in Wissenschaft des
Judentums: A Reconsideration.”
International Conference on “Philosophy and Kabbalah” at the
“What
does Kiryas Joel Tell us about Liberalism in
Panel
Discussion: “
“
“Beyond
Statism: Rethinking Jewish Collectivity.”
Seminar on Jewish Political Theory.
Panel
Discussion, “Out of the Quagmire:
”Two Keys to Jewish Survival.” The
Richard Franklin Memorial Lecture.
Congregation Kol Emet.
Discussant, “The Myth of the
People of the Book.” People of the Book
Festival.
“Post-Zionism and its Roots: Shifting Currents in Israeli Historical
Consciousness.” Institute for Cultural History,
Discussant,
“Hasia Diner: American Jewish Historian.”
Western Jewish Studies Association Conference.
“
Roundtable
Panel, “Jewish Masculinities in
“Between
Segregation and Integration: The Case of Kiryas Joel.” World Congress for Jewish Studies.
Introductory
remarks and “Recovering the ‘Lonely Man’: The Significance of Simon Rawidowicz
to Modern Jewish History.” International
symposium on “Babylonia and
“From
the Burden of Segregation to the Blessing of Assimilation: Two Unlikely Keys to
Jewish Survival.” Lecture at
international conference on “What Enabled the Jews to Survive in History?” The Jerusalem Spinoza Institute.
Chair
and Commentator, “German-Jewish Discourses of Ethics and Power.” Association for Jewish Studies
conference.
“Response
to R. B. Kitaj.” Commentary at Jerome
Nemer Lecture. USC.
“
“An
American Shtetl.” Lecture at
“Discourses
of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif.” Lecture at
international conference on “The Jewish Contribution to Civilization.”
“The
Jewish Question as Arab Question:
“Politics
and Piety in Kiryas Joel.” Lecture at
conference on “Ethics of the Neighbor.”
UCLA,
“Beyond
a History of ‘Suffering and Learning’: From Text to Texture in Jewish
History.” Lecture at Gruss Colloquium on
“Challenging Boundaries: History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies” at the
“Beyond Despair: The Israel-Palestine Conflict Today.” The Feinberg Lecture in Jewish
Studies at
“’Between
Jew and Arab’: Simon Rawidowicz and the Jewish Politics of the Arab
Question.” The 41st Simon
Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture.
“Against
Time and Space: Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought.”
Lecture at international symposium on “Convergence and Divergence: Antisemitism
and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective.”
“Between
False Messiahs and Free Thinkers: Dick Popkin and the Rethinking of Jewish
History.” Lecture at Clark Library
celebration of Richard Popkin.
“Between
Insularity and Engagement: Kiryas Joel in Historical Perspective.” Lecture at the 35th Association
for Jewish Studies conference.
“Beyond
Influence: Toward a New Cultural History?”
Keynote address at international conference on “Between Languages:
Strategies of Jewish Self-Preservation in Trans-Cultural Processes.”
“The
Case of Kiryas Joel: Politics and Piety in an American Shtetl” (with Nomi
Stolzenberg). Presentation as part of
the working group on law and culture sponsored by the Social Science Research
Council and the Russell Sage Foundation.
“Mein Leben als Weltjude: Nahum Goldman
as a World Jew.” Commentary at an
international conference on “Nahum Goldmann: Statesman without a State.”
SELECTED PAST LECTURES
“World
Jewry: Retrospective and Prospective.”
Lecture at academic symposium on the occasion of Rabbi David Ellenson’s
inauguration as President of Hebrew Union College.
“The
Question of Influence—at the Crossroads of Civilization.” Lecture presented at UCLA conference on
“Jewish Civilization and its Discontents.”
“A
Case of Hashpaitis: Influence and its
Discontents in Jewish Historiography.”
The 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies.
“From
Dream to Nightmare?
“The
Problem of History in German-Jewish Thought.”
The Samuel Braun Lecture in Prussian-Jewish History at
“Rebel
in
“The
Culture(s) of Modern Jews: A New Chain of Tradition?” Lecture presented at
"From
International
conference on German Zionism at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut,
Introduction
and commentary, conference on “Marranos and Modernity.” UCLA. February 1997.
"Historicism
and Anti-Historicism in Modern Jewish Studies." Lecture presented at
Ben-Gurion and
"Mashber
ha-historicism u-misud mada`e ha-Yahadut."
The 12th World Congress for Jewish Studies.
"Derrida,
Yerushalmi, and Freud: History and Hope in a Post-Holocaust Age." Lecture
presented at
an
international conference on the Holocaust.
"Jews
and the University: An Historical Perspective." Lecture presented at UCLA
Hillel Faculty Reception.
"Zionism
and History: A Relationship Reconsidered." Lecture presented at an international conference on
the centenary of the Zionist movement,
"Jewish
Cultural Vitality in Urban
Club,
"'Mehabevin
et ha-tsarot': Crusades Memories and Modern Jewish Martyrologies." International
Conference
on the Crusades and the Jews.
"Beyond
History: Anti-Historicism in Modern Jewish Thought." Lecture presented at
the University Seminar on Jewish Studies,
"'The
Blessings of Assimilation' Reconsidered: An Inquiry into Jewish Cultural
Studies." Lecture,
Emancipation?:
Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community"
which I
organized
at the
"Voluntary
Community: An Anomaly?" Lecture,
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College,
Introduction
and commentary, conference on “Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and
Jewish Cases.”
Commentary,
conference on “Enlightenment and Tolerance.”
"The
Meeting of Hebrew, Yiddish, and German-Jewish Cultures in
"
Presence
in Europe: The
RECENT CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
2010 Co-Convener:
“Looking Past, Looking Forward: The History and the Future of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Conference
sponsored by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
2009 Convener:
“Jewish Urban History in the
2008: Lead
convener: “The Jew in French Philosophy after the Holocaust.” Symposium at UCLA. December 7, 2008.
2008: Co-Convener. The UC-Utrecht Symposium on Jewish Politics
and Political Behavior. UCLA. October 13, 2008.
2008: Lead convener. “The Idea of the
Arab Jew.” International symposium at
UCLA.
Feb. 3-4, 2008.
2008
Convener. “From Past to Present: The State of
Relations.” International conference at UCLA. January 13-14, 2008.
2008: Organizer and co-curator. “Portrait of a Jewish Artist: R. B. Kitaj in
Text and
Image.” Exhibit at the Young Research Library
Department of Special
Collections. January 7, 2008.
2007: Co-convener. “History as
Reflected in Israeli Literature.”
Conference at UCLA.
March 11-13, 2007.
2007: Co-convener. “The Blessing of Assimilation
Reconsidered.” Conference
at
2006: Convener. Viterbi Colloquium in Italian Jewish
Studies. UCLA. 2005-06.
2006: Co-convener. “The State
of
Conference
at UCLA. February 12-13.
2005: Co-convener. “Jewish LA: Then and Now.” Conference at UCLA and Autry
2005: Co-convener. “Babylonia and
2005: Co-convener. “Jewish Messianism
in the Time of Jesus: Historical Echoes, Present
Impact.” Conference at UCLA. March 13-14.
2004-05: Co-convener. “The History of Jews in
UCLA and the
2004-05: Co-convener. “Jewish Question/Muslim Question: The Burden
of Assimilation in
European Society.” Year-long research seminar at UCLA.
SELECT UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2010- Director,
2004-2009
1996-2000
2002-04 Vice Chair for Academic Personnel,
UCLA History Department.
2005-07 Member, Academic Personnel Committee,
UCLA History Department.
2005-06 Chair, Bylaws Committee, UCLA History
Department.
2001-02
1998-2000 Member, Advisory Committee, Von Grunebaum
Center for Near Eastern Studies.
1997- Member, 1939 Club Holocaust
Memorial Committee.
1997-99 Chair, Maurice Amado Advisory
Committee for Sephardic Studies.
1996-2000 Chair, Search Committee for Maurice Amado
Chair in Sephardic Studies.
1992-96 Member, Chancellor's Committee on
Religion, Ethics, and Values.
1992-2008 Jewish History Field Coordinator, UCLA
History Department.
1992-95 Chair, Graduate Placement, UCLA
History Department.
SELECT EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
2002-
Co-editor, Jewish
Quarterly Review.
Member, editorial
boards: Judaism, Simon Dubnow Jahrbuch, and transversal.
2010 Co-Chair, Dissertation Fellowship Committee,
Foundation for Jewish Culture.
2009-10 Academic Advisory Committee, Legacy Heritage Jewish
Studies Project.
Association
for Jewish Studies.
2009 North American Scholars’ Circle. Shalom Hartman Institute.
2009 Instructor. Online Course, “Are Jews a Nation?” Nahum Goldmann Fellowship Program, Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture.
June-July, 2009.
2008- Member, Progressive Jewish
2006- Advisory Council,
2003- Member, Progressive Jewish
2002-2007 Member,
2002-2004 Member,
2001- Member, UCLA Hillel Board.
2000-01 Member, Program Committee (History of
the Jewish People), Thirteenth World
Congress
of Jewish Studies,
1999-2004 Consultant,
Curricular Revision Project (joint Jewish-World History), UCLA-
1996-2005 Member, Board of Directors, Association
for Jewish Studies.
1996-2004 Member, Board of Academic Advisors,
Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies.
2004- Instructor, Wexner Heritage
Fellows Program.
1995-97
1995: Consultant and author of report
on Israel-Diaspora relations, Jewish Federation of
Greater
1994: Referee for scholarly presses
including
Chicago,
Cornell, Fordham, Indiana, Littman Library, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rutgers,
University Press of New England, University Press of Virginia, Wayne State, and
Yale.