Professor

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mark.raider@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Dr. Mark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is also a Research Associate in UC's Center for Studies in Jewish Education & Culture and a Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He earned his PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 1996. His publications include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine. A Critical Edition, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); a comprehensive study of the American Jewish experience for the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (2006); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He has served as a guest editor of The Journal of Israeli History as well as American Jewish History. He is currently working on an edited volume titled Free Associations: Selected and Annotated Essays of Hayim Greenberg and a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders. He teaches courses on the American Jewish experience, modern Jewish history, and Zionist history.