Born and raised in Queens, New York, David H. Weinberg (1945-2025) graduated from City College and earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Weinberg was Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, where he taught European history for 25 years. From 1993 through 2013, he served as Director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies and as Professor of History at Wayne State University.
He is the author of three books, A Community on Trial: The Jews of Paris in the 1930s, Between Tradition and Modernity: Haim Zhitlowski, Simon Dubnow, Ahad Ha-Am, and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Identity and Recovering a Voice: West European Jewry After the Holocaust, and of numerous scholarly articles and book reviews. Weinberg was a visiting professor in modern Jewish history at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, and at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He spoke French and Hebrew fluently and guest lectured around the world.
He is the former editor of Shoah and member of the Academic Advisory Board of Shofar. He received numerous awards, including a Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College and a Wayne State University Distinguished Faculty Fellowship and Faculty Recognition Award.
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