Michael Alexander (academic)
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Michael Scott Alexander (born 1970) is an associate professor and Maimonides Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies in the religious studies department of the University of California, Riverside.[1]
He attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate and received his PhD in 1999 from Yale University.[1]
Published works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Jazz Age Jews. Princeton University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-691-11653-2.
Articles
[edit]- “Frankfurter Among the Anarchists: ‘The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.’” Studies in Contemporary Jewry Vol. XVII. Edited by Eli Lederhendler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: 175-191.[1]
- “Exile and Alienation in America.” American Jewish History 90(2) (June 2002): 165-171.[1]
- “The Triumph of the Jewish Therapeutic.” Reviews in American History 33(2) (June 2005): 287-292.[1]
- “The Meaning of American Jewish History.” Jewish Quarterly Review 96(3) (Summer 2006): 423-432.[1]
- “The Jewish Bookmaker: Gambling, Legitimacy, and the American Political Economy.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry Vol. XXIII. Edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, 54-69. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.[1]
- “Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Personas They Denied,” in Gender and Jewish History. Editors: Marion A. Kaplan, Deborah Dash Moore. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010: 320-335.[1]
Awards
[edit]- 2002: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish-Christian Relations category for Jazz Age Jews[1][2]
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