Jarrod Tanny
Jarrod Tanny is a Canadian American professor of history and Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.[1] After completing his education through a master's degree in Canada, he came to the United States (US) for a PhD in history at the University of California at Berkeley. He has made his academic career in the US.
Biography[edit]
Tanny grew up in Montreal, Canada, and graduated from McGill University. He earned a master's degree in Russian and East European studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008.[2]
Career[edit]
Tanny, then a professor of history at Ohio University, was hired in 2010 as the inaugural Block Scholar, a professorship named in honour of the parents of former State Senator Frank Block (American politician).[3] His scholarly interests include Jewish humour and Russian Jewish history.[4][2]
Tanny's 2011 book, City of Rogues and Schnorrers, explores Jewish life in 19th-century Odesa, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), a free port and boomtown with a reputation for attracting "gangsters and swindlers..." along with ambitious men and women, some of whom attained great wealth.[5][6]
The Slavic and East European Journal, described City of Rogues and Schnorrers as, "serious and funny, informative and amusing, witty and well written."[7] Reviewer Anna Shternshis cited Tanny's unusual ability to draw on both Russian and Yiddish sources, which she considers to be an important contribution in a field where scholarship has often been confined to a single language.[8]
Publications[edit]
- City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odesa. (Indiana University Press, 2011)[6][8][9]
- "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina" (Forward, March 22, 2015).[1] Also published under the pseudonym Yid In Dixieland as "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South" (Shtetl Montreal, 2011).[10]
- How To Boycott Israel For Dummies - New Campus Apartheid Edition. (Self-published)[11]
- Jewish + Woke = Joke. (Self-published)[12]
- The Gospel of Sarsour. (Self-published)[13]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Tanny, Jarrod (2015). "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina". The Forward. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ a b Steelman, Ben (24 August 2010). "UNCW professor focuses on Jewish culture". Star-News.
- ^ Greene, Amanda. "UNCW hires Jewish scholar". Wilmington Star News. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Greene, Amanda (29 March 2010). "UNCW hires Jewish scholar". McClatchy.
- ^ https://iupress.org/9780253223289/city-of-rogues-and-schnorrers/
- ^ a b "City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odesa (brief review)". Shofar. 31 (1): 211. Fall 2010.
- ^ Katz, Michael R. The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 56, no. 4, 2012, pp. 645–646. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24392629.
- ^ a b Anna Shternshis, Slavic Review, vol. 72, no. 4, 2013, pp. 913–914. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.72.4.0913.
- ^ Meir, Natan M. The Russian Review, vol. 72, no. 4, 2013, pp. 697–698., www.jstor.org/stable/43661946.
- ^ Yid In Dixieland. "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South". shtetlmontreal.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ "How To Boycott Israel For Dummies - New Campus Apartheid Edition | Zionism | Mandatory Palestine". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ "There once was a Jew called Woke Who was really a bit of a joke He joined JVP To set Muslims free And ended up serving The Volk". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ "The Gospel of Sarsour | Palestine (Region) | Palestinians". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.