Gerald Sorin

Gerald Sorin is the former Chairman of the History Department (1986-1996) at SUNY, New Paltz and continues there, since 1983, as Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Director of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. He has delivered more than 90 talks locally, nationally, and internationally, and has published 150 articles, essays, and reviews in magazines and newspapers as well as in the professional journals. His most recent book Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (NYU, 2002), won the National Jewish Book Award in History for 2002.