Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, (Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, April 2007) 495 pages

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1 1 07/28/2017 CURRICULUM VITAE MIRIAM SANUA DALIN, PhD Professor Department of History / Jewish Studies Program Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL Home: Boca Ridge Drive West Boca Raton, FL Tel: cell MSDalin@fau.edu or MiriamDalin@aol.com Education Certificate, Brandeis University Summer Institute in Israel Studies (July 2005) Certificate, YIVO Summer School in Yiddish language, literature, and culture ( ) Ph.D. History, Columbia University, 1995 (Center for Israel and Jewish Studies) M.A. History, Columbia University, 1988 (Center for Israel and Jewish Studies) M.A. / Ph.D. programs, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Jewish Theological Seminary, B.A. Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs/ Near Eastern Studies, 1982 Academic Appointments Full Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Dept. of History and Jewish Studies Program, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Dept. of History and Jewish Studies Program, 2004 Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Dept. of History and Jewish Studies Program Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, Dept. of History, 1997 Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, exhibit historian/researcher/writer/docent instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Touro College, Dept. of History, 1995 (Taught at Flatbush campus) Instructor, University of Washington, (Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies) Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens College of the City of New York, Dept. of History/ Judaic Studies, (Taught History of the Holocaust) Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, Refereed Publications: Books Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, (Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, April 2007) 495 pages Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the US, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003) 416 pages Here s to Our Fraternity : One Hundred Years of Zeta Beta Tau, (Hanover, NH; University Press of New England, 1998) 335 pages

2 2 Book Chapters The Be Virtuous! Board Game: Monopoly in Contemporary Yiddish for Satmar Hasidic Girls. In Jack Wertheimer, ed., Imagining the American Jewish Community (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, Dec. 2007) pp "The ESCO Fund Committee: The Story of an American Jewish Foundation." In America and Zion: Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis, ed. by Jonathan D. Sarna and Eli Lederhendler (Wayne State University Press, Detroit: 2002): "'We Hate New York': Negative Images of the Promised City as a Source for Jewish Fraternity and Sorority Members, " In An Inventory of Promises: a Festschrift for Moses Rischin, Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed. (Carlson Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1995): "From the Pages of the Victory Bulletin: The Syrian Jews of Brooklyn during World War II." YIVO Annual, 19 (Northwestern University Press, 1990) pp Journal Articles The American Jewish Committee and Intermarriage: The Complexities of Jewish Continuity, , in the American Jewish Year Book, ed. David Singer and Lawrence Grossman (American Jewish Committee, January 2008) 107:3-32. Jewish College Fraternities in the US, : an Overview. Journal of American Ethnic History, 19 (2) (winter 2000): "Non-Recognition of Jewish College Fraternities: The Cases of Columbia and Brown Universities." American Jewish Archives, 45 (2) (Fall/Winter 1993): "The Americanization of Jewish Immigrants: Two Stories: A Review Essay." American Jewish History, 80 (2) (winter ): "Stages in the Development of Jewish Life at Princeton University." American Jewish History, 76 (4) (June 1987): Presentations Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in the American Jewish Community: The Rise of the Jewish Recovery Movement. Presented at Association for Jewish Studies annual conference, Boston, MA, December 17, Israeli Americans and Their Children: Keeping Ties to the Homeland. Presented at annual conference of Association of Israel Studies, at UCLA Los Angeles, CA June 25, There s No Galut If You Commute, 2012 American Jewish Historical Society Biennial Scholar s Conference (New York) Panel, Exiles and Outsiders in America, June 13, 2012.

3 The Changing Faces of American Jewry: Jewish Immigration to the US Since Delivered at the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC December 19, Diaspora Rebellions: US Jews React to the Who is a Jew Debate in Israel. Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC December 21, 2008 (unable to attend due to illness; paper was delivered by proxy) Survey of US History from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, Florida Atlantic University Lifelong Learning Society, fall 2008; History of World Civilization from Ancient Times to the Early Modern Period Spring African American and Jewish Relationships. Black History Month Opening Ceremony, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, February 7, 2008 "North Encounters South: The Role of Southern Colleges in the National Jewish Fraternity System, " Southern Jewish Historical Society, Bethesda, MD November 1, 2007 American Jews and the Issue of Who is a Jew? in Israel, at Florida Atlantic University, Florida-Israel Institute, March 14, South Florida Re-shtetlment : A History of the Century Village Retirement Communities, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Conference on The Jews of South Florida, January 14, Live Virtuously! a Yiddish Monopoly Game for Satmar Hasidic Girls. Presented at conference Imagining the American Jewish Community, at Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, March 17, (This work and the book chapter that resulted from it were based on my ability to translate material in the Yiddish language, which is spoken by many ultra-orthodox Jews, into English.) Romansas and Kantigas: The Recapture and Transmission of Sephardic Culture through Story and Song. Conference of Florida Folklore Society/Society for Ethnomusicology SE Chapter, Tarpon Springs, FL, March 1, Book Reviews (Refereed Journals) Newcomb College : Higher Education for Women in New Orleans. Edited by Susan Tucker and Beth Willinger. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, In journal Louisiana History, Winter Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America by M.M Silver. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, In journal American Jewish History, October 2014; 98 (4) City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (three volumes) ed. by Deborah Dash Moore. New York, New York University Press, For The Yearbook of German-American Studies, 2012 (University of Kansas Press, published summer 2014) 47:2012, The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity By Laurie A. Wilkie. (University of California Press, 2010). For journal Men and Masculinities, (SAGE Publications), August 2012, 15:

4 4 The Greening of American Orthodox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s. By Benny Kraut. (Hebrew Union College Press, 2011). In American Jewish Archives (December 2011) vol. 63 no We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, By Hasia Diner. (New York: New York University Press, 2009) for H-NET Judaic, October 6, Hadassah and the Zionist Project. By Erica B. Simmons. (Landham, MD: Roman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006) in Israel Studies Forum, (1) The Jews of South Florida, Andrea Greenbaum, ed. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005) in American Jewish History (2004) 92:3; pp A Global Community: the Jews of Aleppo, Syria by Walter Zenner (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2001) in the AJS Review (publication of the Association for Jewish Studies) 27:2, America-Holy Land Studies IV: With Eyes Toward Zion by Moshe Davis. In Hadoar, October 1995 (Publication of the Histadruth Ivrith of America; Hebrew translation by Ed.) English original also appeared in the Jerusalem Post Magazine May 3, 1996, p. 26. What is American about the American Jewish Experience? Edited by Marc Lee Raphael (Dept. of Religion, College of William and Mary) in Religious Studies Review, 20 (4) (Oct. 1994):349. Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Mel Scult. In Religious Studies Review, 20 (4) (Oct. 1994): 349. Unfulfilled Promise: Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States, by Judith Tydor Baumel. In Journal of American Ethnic History, 12 (2) (winter 1993): The German-Jewish Legacy in America, : From Bildung to the Bill of Rights, edited and introduced by Abraham J. Peck. Religious Studies Review, 17 (3) (July 1991): 324 Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism by Marc Lee Raphael. In Religious Studies Review, 16 (2) (April 1990): 242 Smashing the Idols: A Jewish Inquiry into the Cult Phenomenon, edited by Gary D. Eisenberg. In Religious Studies Review, vol. 16 no. 2, April 1990: 242. Encyclopedia Entries "Jews and Jewish Americans, 1940-Present." In Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration, ed. by Elliott Robert Barkan. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013, 3: Jewish Fraternities and Sororities, in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jewish Religion, History and Culture, edited by Judith Baskin, ABC-Clio Books, 2011, "Jewish Participation in Higher Education in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. James J.F. Forest and Kevin Kinser. (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2002):

5 5 For Richard J.H. Gottheil in American National Biography, Vol. IX, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999): Awards Research Grant for , Lucius N. Littauer Foundation National Jewish Book Award, finalist for best book in American Jewish Studies for 2007 for Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, (Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press) Creative Scholar of the Year Award, Florida Atlantic University, for (at assistant professor level) Courses Taught at Florida Atlantic University Modern Jewish Civilization (JST 4930) American Jewish History (JST 4415) Jews of Spain and the Middle East (JST 4930) History of Zionism and Israel (JST 4930) Modern Israel (Graduate Readings Course, WHO 5935) Jewish Life in the U.S. Since the Holocaust (JST 4930) Senior Seminar (HIS 4935) History of American Immigration and Ethnicity (AMH 3530) Survey, US Since 1877 (AMH 2020) Survey, US to 1877 (AMH 2010) World Civilization I (WHO 2012) Directed Independent Study (JST 4905) History of U.S. Drug and Alcohol Use (AMH 4930) Graduate Readings in US History Introduction to Historical Methods Committees and Service Florida Atlantic University Secondary Teacher Education Coordinating Committee (STECC) social science representative, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University Research and Other Creative Activity Committee (ROCA) departmental representative ) Religious Studies Development Task Force ( ) Faculty Assembly Representative ( ) Johnston-Chastain Middle East Studies Exploratory Committee ( ) Jewish Studies Program Executive Committee ( present) FAU Departmental

6 6 Jewish Studies Executive Committee Chair, Jewish Studies Awards Committee Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Dept. of History (2013- ) Search Committee, American history position ( ) FEC (Promotion and Tenure Dept. of History) ( , ) Awards and Outreach Committee, Dept. of History ( ) Professional Editorial Board, American Jewish Year Book, (2014- ) Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society (1999 present) Evaluator of fellowship applications, National Foundation for Jewish Culture Peer reviewer, American Jewish History Journal Peer reviewer, Jewish Quarterly Review journal Peer reviewer, European Journal of American Studies Peer reviewer, Louisiana History journal Consultant, documentary film on rescue of Jewish community of Syria, for director-producer Chloe Sosa- Sims of Silence and Space Productions (2016 present) Consultant, documentary film on current conspiracy theories related to Zionism and antisemitism by Joseph Duenas of CSI Productions (2016- present) Community Service Academic adviser and Board member, interviewer, Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum s Jewish Community Oral History Project (2016- present) Congregation B nai Torah, Lillian and Philip Cooperman Academy for Adult Jewish Learning, annual six session class Winter Dec.-Jan.; 2015, To the Golden Land: History of the Jews of the United States ; 2016, Jews of Spain and the Middle East ; 2017, History of Israel. Academic adviser for CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting) ( ) Guest speaker, The Pentecostals of Cooper City Church, Stand With Israel Summit, address on the history of Zionism and Israel, March 13, 2015 Guest speaker, Boca Raton Synagogue, lecture on History of Zionism and Israel, for annual Israel Week program, January 7, 2015 Guest speaker, Fifth Annual Jewish Women s Study Day, theme, Jewish Women Lean In. At Temple Beth-El, Boca Raton, FL March 27, Lecture on Dona Gracia Nasi. Boca Raton Synagogue, Lunch and Learn Program, February 19 and 26, 2014 Scholar-in-Residence, Palm Beach Synagogue, May 14-15, 2013 Board of Directors, Jewish Cultural Society, Florida Atlantic University,

7 7 Board of Directors, American Jewish Committee, Palm Beach County Chapter, Delray Beach Public Library, Lifelong Learning Community Institute, Fall 2012 The World of Sephardic Music and Culture, Concert, April 10, 2011 for the Jewish Cultural Society (Florida Atlantic University, Wimberly Library) President, Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County ( ) Director of Education and Outreach, ( ) Your Heart s Desire: Sex and Love in the Jewish Tradition, series of five lectures on Jewish literature, West Palm Beach Public Library, Lecture Series on Jewish Literature at the Century Plaza Public Library (Deerfield Beach) November- December 2008.