Michael Alexander (academic)

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

Books
  • Jazz Age Jews. Princeton University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-691-11653-2.

Articles
  • “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

References
  1. "Michael Alexander – UCR - Department of Religious Studies". religiousstudies.ucr.edu. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-24.



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