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American historian and author
Barry Trachtenberg is a historian and author who works as the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at
Wake Forest University.[1]
After lecturing at the
University at Albany, SUNY in 2003, he obtained an assistant professorship there in 2004, and was promoted to associate professor in 2010. He moved to Wake Forest in 2016 as associate professor and Michael R. & Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History; in 2023 he was promoted to full professor. He directed the programs in Judaic Studies and Hebrew Studies at the University at Albany from 2010 to 2016, and the Jewish Studies Program at Wake Forest from 2017 to 2020.[3]
Books
Trachtenberg's books include:
Trachtenberg, Barry (2008). The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917. Syracuse University Press.
ISBN978-0-8156-5136-9.[4]
Trachtenberg, Barry (2018). The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance. Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN978-1-4725-6720-8.[5]
Trachtenberg, Barry (2022). The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. Rutgers University Press.
ISBN978-1-9788-2549-9.[6]