Moses Rischin

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Moses Rischin (1925-2020 [1] ) was an American historian, author, lecturer, editor, and emeritus professor of history at San Francisco State University. [2] [3] He coined the phrase new Mormon history in a 1969 article of the same name. [4]

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Rischin is considered an authority on American ethnic and immigration history [5] [6] and a pioneer in the field of American Jewish history. [7] Historian Selma Berrol, however, has challenged the minimal treatment Rischin has given to the tensions between earlier German Jews and later Russian Jews in America. [8]

Biography

Rischin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. [1] His undergraduate studies were at Brooklyn College. [9] Harvard University awarded him a Ph.D. in 1957. [10]

Ruschin became a professor at San Francisco State University in 1964. [11] In addition to his professorship, he sat on the board for the Journal of American Ethnic History and on the council of the American Jewish History Society. [12] [13] During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rischin was a signatory of "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" wherein 400 historians criticized efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton. [14] [15]

He was the longtime director of the Western Jewish History Center, at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, from its founding in 1967; [16] [17] from 2005 until approximately 2010, an annual lecture was given there in his name. [18]

A collection of historical essays was published in Rischin's honor in 1996. [19]

A character in the 1967 novel Meyer Meyer by Helen Hudson may have been partly modeled after him. [20]

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Articles and essays

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Passing of Professor Moses Rischin". H-Judaic. 2020-08-21. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  2. ↑ My Jewish Learning: The Lower East Side Archived 2008-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Lehrhaus Judaica – The Adult School For Jewish Studies Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/issues/123/123-28-32.pdf%5B%5D
  5. ↑ "Utopia as a camouflage : The case of Abe Cahan and his legacy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  6. ↑ "Abigail Rischin, David A. Moss". The New York Times. 1993-06-07. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  7. ↑ Western Jewish History Center || The Magnes Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Jason Schulman Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Bulletin-Faculty R & S
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2008-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "Moses Rischin". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. Farmington Hills, Mich.: 2001. Retrieved via Gale In Context: Biography database, 2020-08-22.
  12. ↑ Browse Journals
  13. ↑ AJHS: Academic Council Member
  14. ↑ Salon Newsreal | "Historians in Defense of the Constitution"
  15. ↑ "Historians' Statement on Impeachment". The Washington Post. 1998-10-30. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  16. ↑ Katz, Leslie (1997-01-17). "Jewish History Center Marks Three Decades of Capturing the Past". J. The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California . Archived from the original on 2006-05-10.
  17. ↑ "Western Jewish History Center". The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley. 15 March 2010. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  18. ↑ "Mazel Tov!" (PDF). The Temple Chronicle. San Francisco, Calif. 2005-12-01. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-10. "To Dr. Moses Rischin and Dr. Ruth Rischin on the establishment of The Moses Rischin Annual Lecture at the Western Jewish History Center."
  19. ↑ An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History: In Honor of Moses Rischin by Jeffrey S. Gurock and Marc Lee Raphael (Carlson Publishing, 1996)
  20. ↑ Traister, Daniel. "'You Must Remember This'; or, Libraries as a Locus of Cultural Memories". Daniel Traister's Home Page, University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  21. ↑ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
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