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Brandeis University (/ ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s /) is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational university, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University.
David S. Katz FRHistS (born 1953) is Director of the History of Ideas Program and a member of the Department of History at Brandeis University and Professor Emeritus of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he taught from 1978 until retiring in 2019. He held the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books ...
Mickey Fisher: Basketball coach and Brandeis Athletic Director; Benny Friedman: Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback; Brandeis Athletic Director and last football coach; Lawrence "Larry" Fuchs: Founder of the American Studies Department at Brandeis and immigration policy expert; Paul Georges: Member of National Academy Museum
David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University.Fischer's major works have covered topics ranging from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (Albion's Seed, The Great Wave) to narrative histories of significant events (Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which ...
In 2018 she was appointed to the department of history and the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. [ 4 ] She has held a number of research grants and fellowships including from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities , the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) (2014–15), [ 5 ] and ...
He became a leader of the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation, founded at the University of Illinois, serving as director of the Illinois sector from 1929 to 1933, national director of the Hillel Foundation from 1933 to 1947, and chairman of the National Hillel Commission from 1948 to 1955, when he retired to become president of Brandeis University.
Silvia Marina Arrom (born 26 August 1949) is an American historian of Mexico. She is the Jane's Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies at Brandeis University. [1] [2]Arrom has published on groups and issues that have largely been ignored in traditional accounts, including women, gender, the family, social welfare, popular politics, and the poor, with particular attention to the nineteenth ...
Jay Berkovitz completed his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1983. [2] He taught at Spertus College in Chicago, Bar Ilan University, Hebrew College, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Touro College, Trinity College, and the University of Connecticut Storrs. At Amherst he is an adjunct member of both the History Department and the Department of ...