Todd Endelman
Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the social history of Jews in Western Europe and in Anglo-Jewish history. He is the author of The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society (1979), Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History, 1656-1945 (1990), and The Jews of Britain, 1656-2000 (2002).[1]
Career
Endelman was awarded a B.A. in 1968 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in 1976 at Harvard University. He taught at Yeshiva University and Indiana University, then moved to Michigan in 1985. While at the University of Michigan, Endelman served as director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies intermittently for 11 years. His tenure as director included significant growth for the program, including the creation of a Masters program and the establishment of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies with a $20 million endowment - the largest gift ever given to a Jewish Studies program. He was succeeded as director by fellow historian, Deborah Dash Moore in 2005. Endelman will serve as the Frankel Institutes's Head Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year.
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- ↑ "Todd M. Endelman", Dept of History, University of Michigan, retrieved April 22, 2006