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2005-6 Prof. Tony Michels
Professor Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has taught since 1998. For his first book, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005), Prof. Michels was a 2007 finalist for both the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award and the Saul Viener Book Prize (American Historical Society). As the 2006-7 Goldstein-Goren fellow, he worked on two book projects: a collection of unpublished autobiographies by Jewish radicals and a history of Jewish Communists and their opponents between the 1920s and 1950s.
2008-9 Prof. Joyce Antler
Professor Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of ten books, including The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America, and You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother. As the 2008-9 Goldstein-Goren Fellow, she plans to produce a new edition of Sophie Tuckers "Some of These Days." |
