The Goldstein-Goren Center Will Research How America
Influenced — and Was Influenced by — the Jewish People.
Directed by Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor in American Jewish History, the Center will be dedicated to the study the mutual impact of the United States and the Jewish people. The Goldstein-Goren Center was made possible through the support of the Cukier Goldstein-Goren Foundation.
As part of its programming, the new center will sponsor scholarly conferences and publications that explore some of the key areas of American history and their points of engagement with the Jews who lived in the United States and elsewhere. The Center takes as the focus of its programs and publications the relationships forged between American Jewry and wider developments in American society and culture.
“Our goal as scholars and researchers is to examine the Jews as one element in a diverse polity and consider the ways in which Jews interacted with America as a society constituted by many religious and ethnic groups,” said Professor Diner. “A central mission of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish history is the funding of graduate student fellowships in order to train the next generation of scholars in this crucial field.”
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