DOBKOWSKI, Michael N. 1947-

PERSONAL: Born May 10, 1947, in Germany; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Monik and Bronia (Kalt) Dobkowski; married Karen Gabe (a speech pathologist); children: Jessica, Jonathan, Tamar. Ethnicity: "Jewish." Education: New York University, B.A. (with honors), 1969, M.A., 1971, Ph.D. (with distinction), 1976.

ADDRESSES: Home—65 Parkwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Office—Department of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, lecturer in American history, 1973-74; Upsala College, East Orange, NJ, lecturer in modern Jewish history, 1974-75; Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, senior research fellow, 1975-76; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, assistant professor, 1976-82, associate professor, 1982-88, professor of religious studies, 1988—, department chair, 1992-95. Kean College of New Jersey, lecturer, 1975; University of Rochester, visiting assistant professor, 1979; Wroxton College, member of Goldner Holocaust Symposium, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002; guest speaker at other institutions, including Bloomsburg State College, Rider College, Siena College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Duquesne University. Hillel School of Rochester, chair of education committee, 1986-92, vice president of board of directors, 1987-89, president of board of trustees, 1992-94; Holocaust Commission of Rochester, chair, 1994-98; Ora Academy of Rochester, vice president, 1998-2002.

MEMBER: Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1974-75, and National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-78; fellow of Institute for the Teaching of the Post-Biblical Foundations of Western Civilization, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1979.

WRITINGS:

The Tarnished Dream: The Basis of American Anti-Semitism, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1979.

The Politics of Indifference: A Documentary History of Holocaust Victims in America, University Press of America (Washington, DC), 1982.

(With Isidor Wallimann) Toward the Holocaust: The Social and Economic Collapse of the Weimar Republic, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1983.

Jewish-American Voluntary Organizations, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1986.

(With Isidor Wallimann) Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1987.

(With Peter Beckman, Steven Lee, and others) The Nuclear Predicament: An Introduction, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1988, revised edition, 1991.

(Editor, with Isidor Wallimann) Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945, Monthly Review Press (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor, with Isidor Wallimann, and contributor) Genocide in Our Time, Pierian Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1992.

(With Barbara Lovenheim) A Family among Families: A History of the Jewish Home of Rochester, Jewish Home Foundation (Rochester, NY), 1998.

(Editor, with Isidor Wallimann, and contributor) The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-first Century, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY), 1998, second edition published as On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict, 2002.

(With Peter Beckman, Steven Lee, and Paul Crumlish) The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century, Prentice-Hall (Tappan, NJ), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Germany and America: Essays on Problems of International Relations and Immigration, edited by Hans L. Trefousse, Brooklyn College Press (Brooklyn, NY), 1980; Approaches to Modern Judaism, edited by Marc Lee Raphael, Scholars Press (Chico, CA), 1983; Persistent Prejudice, edited by Herbert Hirsch and Jack D. Spiro, George Mason University Press (Fairfax, VA), 1988; and Frontiers of Jewish Thought, edited by Steven T. Katz, B'nai B'rith Books (Washington, DC), 1992. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including American Quarterly, Markman Review, Studies in History and Society, Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy, Judaism, Keeping Posted, Patterns of Prejudice, and Dimensions. Coeditor of research annuals Research in Inequality and Social Conflict, 1989, 1992, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, 1993-98.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Covered Mirrors, a Holocaustera novel.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July, 1980, David H. Rosenbloom, review of The Tarnished Dream, p. 274.

Journal of American Ethnic History, spring, 1989, Henry L. Feingold, review of Jewish-American Voluntary Organizations, p. 178.

Journal of Environmental Education, summer, 1999, Jeffrey Salmon, review of The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-first Century, p. 42.

Monthly Review, November, 1991, Lukin Robinson, review of Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945, p. 43.