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David G. Dalin (born 28 June 1949) is an American rabbi and historian, and the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Dalin received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and a second M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
He is currently a senior research fellow at the Bernard G. and Rhoda G. Center at Brandeis University. He has taught Jewish Studies at several universities, has been a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and George Washington University, and has been the Taube Research Fellow in American History at Stanford University. During the 2002–2003 academic year, Dalin was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Since 2006, he has been a member of Princeton University's James Madison Society.
Dalin's numerous articles and book reviews have appeared in American Jewish History, Commentary, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and the American Jewish Year Book. He has served as a member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of the journal First Things , of the editorial board of the journal Conservative Judaism , and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Dalin's book Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (co-authored with Professor Jonathan D. Sarna of Brandeis University), published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1997, was selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.
Dalin's newest book, Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, from Brandeis to Kagan: Their Lives and Legacies, published by Brandeis University Press in 2017, is the first history of the eight Jewish men and women who have served or who currently serve as justices of the Supreme Court. This book was selected as a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award. [1]
He has also published major articles about baseball's great Jewish superstars, Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax.
Dalin serves as a member of the academic advisory and editorial board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and as a member of the board of directors of the Palm Beach County (Florida) Region of the American Jewish Committee.
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