David G. Dalin
Encyclopedia
David G. Dalin is an American
Conservative
rabbi
and historian, is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations. He is currently a professor of history and politics at Ave Maria University
, in Florida. He was previously an associate professor of American Jewish history
at the University of Hartford
,
a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
, and the Taube Research Fellow in American History at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University
. During the 2002-2003 academic year, Dalin was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
at Princeton University
.
Dalin's numerous articles and book reviews have appeared in American Jewish History
, Commentary
, First Things
, The Weekly Standard
, and the American Jewish Year Book
. He has served as a member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of the journal First Things
, of the Editorial Board of the journal Conservative Judaism, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the American Jewish Historical Society
.
Dalin received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley
, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University
, and a second M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Conservative
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism,...
rabbi
Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
and historian, is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations. He is currently a professor of history and politics at Ave Maria University
Ave Maria University
Ave Maria University or AMU is a private Catholic university in southwest Florida, United States, founded in 2003. The university moved to its permanent campus, situated in the planned town of Ave Maria, east of Naples, Florida, in August 2007...
, in Florida. He was previously an associate professor of American Jewish history
American Jewish History
American Jewish History is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society. The journal was established in 1892 and focuses on all aspects of the American Jewish experience including discussions of culture, religion, and politics...
at the University of Hartford
University of Hartford
The University of Hartford is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest levels of accreditation available in the US, including the Engineering Accreditation Commission of...
,
a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.JTS operates five schools: Albert A...
, and the Taube Research Fellow in American History at the Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. During the 2002-2003 academic year, Dalin was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University that is "dedicated to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought."...
at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
.
Dalin's numerous articles and book reviews have appeared in American Jewish History
American Jewish History
American Jewish History is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society. The journal was established in 1892 and focuses on all aspects of the American Jewish experience including discussions of culture, religion, and politics...
, Commentary
Commentary (magazine)
Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becoming a strong voice for the...
, First Things
First Things
First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...
, The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
, and the American Jewish Year Book
American Jewish Year Book
The American Jewish Year Book , which has been published annually since 1899, is regarded as the authoritative record of events and trends in Jewish life in the United States and around the world by many Jewish organizations....
. He has served as a member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of the journal First Things
First Things
First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...
, of the Editorial Board of the journal Conservative Judaism, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the American Jewish Historical Society
American Jewish Historical Society
The American Jewish Historical Society was founded in 1892 with the mission to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American...
.
Dalin received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, and a second M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.JTS operates five schools: Albert A...
.
Books
- From Marxism to Judaism: Selected Essays of Will HerbergWill HerbergWill Herberg was an American Jewish writer, intellectual and scholar. He was known as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian.-Early life:...
(1989) editor - American Jews and the Separationist Faith: A New Debate on Religion in Public Life (1992) editor
- Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford (1997) with Jonathan RosenbaumJonathan RosenbaumJonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65...
- Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (1997), with Jonathan D. Sarna
- Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry (1999) editor with Elliott AbramsElliott AbramsElliott Abrams is an American attorney and neoconservative policy analyst who served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan and in the State Department, Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer...
- The Presidents of the United States and the Jews (2000) with Alfred J. Kolatch
- The Pius War : Responses to the Critics of Pius XII (2004) with Joseph Bottum
- The Myth of Hitler's PopeThe Myth of Hitler's PopeThe Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis is a book written by American historian and Rabbi David G. Dalin and published in 2005 by Regnery Publishing.- Background :...
: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis (2005) - Icon of EvilIcon of EvilIcon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam is a 2008 book by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann initially published by Random House; the 2009 version of the book by Transaction Publishers has an introduction by Alan Dershowitz. It is a biography of Haj Amin al-Husseini , who was...
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (2008) with John RothmannJohn RothmannJohn Rothmann is a radio talk show host on KGO 810 AM in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.According to his biography posted by KGO 810 AM, Rothmann is a frequent lecturer on American politics and the Presidency, and has spoken at over 150 campuses throughout the United... - John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue (2008), editor with Matthew Levering.
Articles and book chapters
- "Jews and the American Presidency," in Gaston Espinosa (edited) Religion, Race and the American Presidency (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
- "John Paul II and the Jews," in David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering (edited) John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
- "Charges of Catholic Anti-Semitism Have Been Exaggerated," in Mary E. Williams (edited) The Catholic Church: Opposing Viewpoints (Detroit: Thomson and Gale, 2006)
- "Jewish Critics of Strict Separationism," in Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna and Robert Licht (edited) Jews and the American Public Square: Debating Religion and Republic (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
- "Presidents, Presidential Appointments and Jews," in L. Sandy Maisel and Ira N. Forman (edited) Jews in American Politics (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).
- Pius XII and the Jews, The Weekly Standard, Feb 26, 2001
- "America Seems Ready for a Jewish Vice President," Connecticut Jewish LedgerJewish LedgerThe Jewish Ledger is Connecticut's only weekly Jewish newspaper.It was founded in April 1929 by Samuel Neusner and Rabbi Abraham Feldman. Berthold Gaster, whose father had survived the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, became the newspaper's managing editor in 1958...
, June 30, 2000. - "Tzedakah With Dignity: Jewish Charity and Self-Help in Rabbinic Tradition," Conservative Judaism, Fall 1999.
- "The Jewish Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel," Weekly Standard, January 4, 1999.
- "How High the Wall? American Jews and the Church-State Debate," in Kenneth L. Grasso and Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo (edited) Liberty Under Law: American Constitutionalism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1997)
- Contributor to Symposium: "What Do American Jews Believe?" Commentary, August 1996.
- "Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life," in Jeffrey S. Gurock and Marc Raphael Lee Raphael (edited) An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History in Honor of Moses Rischin (Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1995).
- "Will Herberg's Path From Marxism to Judaism," in Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen (edited) The Americanization of the Jews (New York: New York University Press, 1995).
- "The Enduring Legacy of Will Herberg," Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, Fall 1994.
- "The American Element in the Thought of Will Herberg," American Jewish History, Spring-Summer 1994.
- "Will Herberg," in Steven T. Katz (edited) Interpreters of Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: B'nai B'rith Books, 1994).
- "Cyrus Adler," in Jack Fischel and Sanford Pinsker (edited) Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992)
- "Heidegger and Nazism: A Review Essay," Conservative Judaism, Summer 1991.
- Contributor to Symposium: "Judaism in American Public Life," First Things, March 1991.
- "Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars," American Jewish History, March 1989.
- "The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt," Conservative Judaism, Fall 1988.
- "Will Herberg in Retrospect," Commentary, July 1988.
- "Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions," Association for Jewish Studies Review, Spring 1985.
- "Israel Abrahams: Leader of Liturgical Reform in England," Journal of Reform Judaism, Winter 1985.
- Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties, American Jewish Yearbook, 1980
- "Jewish and Non-Partisan Republicanism in San Francisco, 1911-1963," in Moses Rischin(edited) The Jews of the West: The Metropolitan Years (Waltham, Massachusetts: American Jewish Historical Society, 1979)