163:. He has written nine books, several of which and collectively have been critically admired and recognized by honors and awards. In addition to the National Jewish Book Award in History, Sorin received the Saul Viener Prize for the best book in Jewish American History, 2001–2002. He was also the recipient of The Lee Max Friedman Medal, 2006, awarded by the
64:, the Max Weinreich Institute for Jewish Research. He became the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz in 1983, the Chair of the History Department in 1986, and was the founder of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life in 1989, which he continues to direct.
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American Studies in the Netherlands at the University of Utrecht's School of Journalism in 1992, and at Nijmegen University in 1998 as the Fulbright Association's John Adams Distinguished Chair of American Studies; he continues to serve on the executive board of the American
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American social and political history and culture, and taught a wide variety of courses, including several on slavery and the coming of the Civil War. His first two books were
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Brownsville Boys Club to the American Jewish Committee: Irving Levine and the Persistence of Jewish Liberalism, in
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Mutual
Contempt, Mutual Benefit: The Strained Encounter Between German and Eastern European Jews in the United States,
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for a lifetime of outstanding service and scholarly contribution to
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A Time for
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American Jewish
Socialists and the Psychological Dimensions of Marginality, in
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Tradition and Change: American Jewish Socialists as Agents of Acculturation,
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The Making of a Jewish Liberal Activist: Irving Levine and Brownsville, in
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Black Antisemitism on Campus: Political Opportunism and Academic Betrayal,
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The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920
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Saul Viener Prize for Best Book in American Jewish History, 2002-2003
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Jewish Historical Society and on the Managing Editorial Board of
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The New York Abolitionists: A Case Study in Political Radicalism
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The New York Abolitionists: A Case Study in Political Radicalism
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An Inventory of Promises: Essays in *Honor of Moses Rischin
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Cultural Pluralism and Democracy: Roots and Prospects, in
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The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals
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Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"
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Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
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Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
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122:, which is part of the acclaimed five-volume series
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357:Black and Jewish Resistance to Depersonalization,
281:(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
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424:, eds. Diederik Oostdijk and Mathilde Roza (1998)
318:Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane
333:(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024)
320:(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
262:(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985)
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