Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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. 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).

Career

Endelman was awarded a B.A. in 1968 from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and his Ph.D. in 1976 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He taught at Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

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 and Indiana University

Indiana University

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, then moved to Michigan in 1985. While at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of 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

Deborah Dash Moore

Deborah Dash Moore is the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.-Early life and education:...

in 2005. Endelman will serve as the Frankel Institutes's Head Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year.