Leonard Dinnerstein

Leonard Dinnerstein (born May 5, 1934 in New York City ; died January 22, 2019 in Tucson ) was an American historian .

Life

Leonard Dinnerstein studied at City College of New York (BSS 1955) and at Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis on the Leo Frank case ; for the book he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1969 . From 1960 to 1965 he was an instructor at the New York Institute of Technology , from 1967 to 1970 Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and from 1970 Professor of History at the University of Arizona . Since 1993 he has been director of Judaic Studies there. In 1994 he received the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History from the Jewish Book Council for the book Antisemitism in America . Anti-Semitism was one of his main research interests . In 2004 he retired.

Dinnerstein had been married since 1961 and had two children. He died in January 2019 at the age of 84.

Fonts (selection)

• The Leo Frank Case . Columbia University Press, 1968
• with Fred Jaher (Ed.): The Aliens: A History of Ethnic Minorities in America . Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1970
• with Kenneth T. Jackson (Ed.): American Vistas . 2 volumes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
• (Ed.): Antisemitism in the United States . Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1971
• with Mary Dale Palsson (ed.): Jews in the South . Louisiana State University Press, 1973
• with Jean Christie (Ed.): Decisions and Revisions: Interpretations of 20th Century American History . Praeger, 1975
• with David M. Reimers. Dodd, Mead: Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation . Harper & Row, 1975
• with Jean Christie (Ed.): America Since World War II: Historical Interpretations . Praeger, 1976
• with Roger L. Nichols , David M. Reimers: Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of Modern America . Oxford University Press, 1979 ISBN 978-0-19-509083-3
• America and the Survivors of the Holocaust . Columbia University Press, 1982
• Uneasy at Home: Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience . Collection of essays. Columbia University Press, 1987
• Antisemitism in America . Oxford University Press, New York 1994
• British and American DP policy , translation by Irmgard Hölscher, in: Fritz Bauer Institute (Ed.): Survived and on the move: Jewish displaced persons in post-war Germany . 1997 yearbook on the history and impact of the Holocaust. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1997, pp. 109–117

Web links

• Literature by and about Leonard Dinnerstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Leonard Dinnerstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Leonard Dinnerstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leonard Dinnerstein , at University of Arizona
• Leonard Dinnerstein , at prabook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sam Roberts: Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, Dies; Scholar of Anti-Semitism in US In: The New York Times . January 31, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019 .