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]
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]
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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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]
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]
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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