Endelman, Todd M(ichael) 1946-

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ENDELMAN, Todd M(ichael) 1946-

PERSONAL: Born November 10, 1946, in Fresno, CA; son of Albert L. (a merchant) and Marcelle N. (a homemaker; maiden name, Todresic) Endelman; married Judith Epstein (a librarian), June 16, 1968; children: Michael, Flora. Education: University of California—Berkeley, B.A., 1968; Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA, B.H.L., 1972; Harvard University, A.M., 1972, Ph.D., 1976.

ADDRESSES: Home—3519 Paisley Ct., Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Offıce—Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003. E-mail— [email protected].

CAREER: Yeshiva University, New York, NY, assistant professor of Jewish history, 1976-79; Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY, lecturer in history, 1979; Indiana University—Bloomington, Bloomington, assistant professor, 1979-81, associate professor of modern Jewish and European history, 1981-85; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, 1985—, and director of Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Leo Baeck Institute, Association for Jewish Studies, Jewish Historical Society of England.

AWARDS, HONORS: Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award, National Jewish Welfare Board, 1980; A. S. Diamond Memorial Prize, Jewish Historical Society of England, and National Jewish Book Award, both 1980, for The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society.

WRITINGS:

The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society, Jewish Publication Society of America (Philadelphia, PA), 1979.

(Editor and contributor) Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, Holmes & Meier (New York, NY), 1987.

Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1990.

The Jews of Modern Britain, 1656 to 2000, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2002.

(Editor and author of introduction) Comparing Jewish Societies, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1997.

(Editor, with Tony Kushner) Disraeli's Jewishness, Vallentine Mitchell (Portland, OR), 2002.

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2002.

Contributor to books, including The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact, edited by David Berger, Brooklyn College Press (Brooklyn, NY), 1983; The Middle East, Israel, and U.S. National Interests, edited by Harry S. Allen and Ivan Volgyes, Praeger (New York, NY), 1983; History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism, edited by David Berger, Jewish Publication Society of America (Philadelphia, PA), 1986; Living With Antisemitism: Modern Jewish Responses, edited by Jehuda Reinharz, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1987; and The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851, edited by Charles Richmond and Paul Smith, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2000. Contributor to history and Jewish studies journals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Jewish History, summer, 1991, Lloyd P. Gartner, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, p. 566.

American Political Science Review, December, 1999, Alan S. Zuckerman, review of Comparing Jewish Societies, p. 935.

Canadian Journal of History, December, 2000, Paul T. Phillips, review of The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851, p. 575.

Choice, September, 1990, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, p. 194; September, 2002, F. Krome, review of The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, p. 172.

English Historical Review, January, 1989, Steven Beller, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 146; April, 1994, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, p. 475.

Ethnic and Racial Studies, January, 1991, Panikos Panayi, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, p. 114; November, 1998, Donald Harman Akenson, review of Comparing Jewish Societies, p. 1205.

History: Journal of the Historical Association, October, 1990, David Waines, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 245.

History: Reviews of New Books, winter, 1989, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 90.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies, spring, 1989, Alice L. Eckardt, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 367.

Journal of Modern History, June, 1993, Eugene C. Black, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, p. 393.

Journal of Religion, July, 1989, Marsha Rozenblit, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 446.

Religious Studies Review, July, 1989, review of Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, p. 276.

Times Literary Supplement, November 23, 1990, Robert S. Wistrich, review of Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1045, p. 1261; June 21, 2002, David Vital, review of The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, pp. 34-35.