Hasia Diner is an American historian. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University

New York University

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Diner received her Ph.D., 1976, University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...

, M.A., 1970, University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, and B.A., 1968, University of Wisconsin.

In 2009 she published We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962. According to Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic.-Early life and education:Kirsch is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar Jonathan Kirsch, and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College.-Career:...

, the book "drive(s) a stake, once and for all, through the heart of a historical falsehood that has proved remarkably durable. This is the notion that, as Diner’s subtitle has it, American Jews were initially “silent” about the Holocaust—that the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewry’s collective consciousness."

Awards

• 2009-2010 OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Books

• We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962, NYU Press, 2009, ISBN 9780814719930
• The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 9780520248489
• Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780674006058
• Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (with Beryl Lieff Benderly) (New York: Basic Books, 2002) ISBN 9780465017119
• The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America. (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2000.) ISBN 9780253337887
• American Jews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).(Part of a series for young readers) -Reissued, 2003, as A New Promised Land: A History of the Jews in America. Oxford University Press US, 2003, ISBN 9780195158267
• In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks. 1915-1935 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 ISBN 9780801850653; reissue of 1977 edition Greenwood Press, 1977, ISBN 9780837194004)
• A Time for Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration, Vol. 2 in, The Jewish People in America, Henry Feingold, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) ISBN 9780801851216
• Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) ISBN 9780801828720