Stephen J. Whitfield (born 1942[1]) is the Max Richter Professor Emeritus of American Civilization at
Brandeis University, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate there in 1972 until 2016. His main interests include 20-century American political and cultural history and American Jewish history.[2][3][4]
Since 1976 Whitfield was associated with the
Southern Jewish Historical Society and he published a series of essays on the history of the Jews of Southern United States.[1]
Whitfield is the son of Jewish immigrants, a German-born father and Romanian-born mother, who escaped the Europe in 1938, before
the Holocaust. The parents married in 1940. Stephen was born in 1942 and his only sibling (brother) was born in 1945. The family belonged to the
Reform synagogue.[1]
Books
2020: Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University