Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land

About Monty Noam Penkower

Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate Center of Jewish Studies Jerusalem. He was Victor J. Selmanowitz Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College in New York City and also taught at Bard College Rutgers University and Stern College and in the graduate history departments of New York University and Yeshiva University. His numerous publications include The Federal Writersa (TM) Project (1977); The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust (1983); The Emergence of Zionist Thought (1986); The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty (1994); and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America Britain and Wartime Diplomacy 1939-1945 (2002). The Jews Were Expendable received the Ba (TM)nai Ba (TM)rith A.D.L. Merit for Educational Distinction and together with The Emergence of Zionist Thought garnered the second Samuel Belkin Memorial Literary Award from Yeshiva University.