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Jonathan Krasner
Assistant Professor of the American Jewish Experience
Jonathan Krasner is Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received his doctorate in Jewish history at Brandeis University in 2002, and wrote his dissertation on the representation of self and other in American Jewish religious school textbooks. He also holds a masters degree in education from Harvard University. Dr. Krasner's articles have been published or will appear shortly in the Journal of Jewish Education, American Jewish History, The Lion and the Unicorn, American Jewish Archives Journal, Polin and the anthology Queer Jews (Routledge, 2002). Prior to completing his doctorate in 2002, he was history department chairman at the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston. He continues to work as a freelance consultant on curriculum development issues in the day school setting.
Education
- Ed.M., Harvard University (1995)
- Ph.D., Brandeis University (2002)
Lecture Titles
- "Zion in the Eyes of American Jews"
- "The Changing Nature of American Jewish Education: How Our Past Guides our Future"
- "Teach Your Children Well: Religious School Textbooks and American Jewish Identity"
- "Teaching Israel in the Jewish School"
- "The Adventures of K'tonton and Hillel's Happy Holidays: Children's Books and the Making of American Jewish Identity"
- "Samson Benderly and his 'Boys': Masters of American Jewish Education and their 'Dream Not Yet Come True'"
Publications
- "Constructing Collective Memory: The Re-Envisioning of Eastern Europe as Seen Through American Jewish Textbooks," Polin, in
press.
- "Jewish Chautauqua, Jewish History, and a Jewish Correspondence School: A Failed Experiment in Jewish Education," American
Jewish Archives Journal, in press.
- "Jewish Education and American Jewish Education, Part II," Journal of Jewish Education, in press.
- "Jewish Education and American Jewish Education, Part I," Journal of Jewish Education 71: 121-177 (2005).
- "When the Present Took Precedence Over the Past: Social Adjustment and the Mainstreaming of American Jewish History in the
Supplementary School," Journal of Jewish Education 70: 27-39 (2004).
- "Why Teach American Jewish History," Jewish Education News 25:3 (Summer 2004), 35-37.
- "'New Jews' in an Old-New Land: Images in American Jewish Textbooks Prior to 1948," Journal of Jewish Education 69:2
(Fall-Winter, 2003), 7-22.
- "A Recipe for American Jewish Integration: The Adventures of K'tonton and Hillel's Happy Holidays," The Lion and the
Unicorn 27 (2003), 344-361.
- "Without Standing Down: The First Queer Jewish Street Protest," in Queer Jews, edited by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv (New
York: Routledge Press, 2002), 119-134.
- Book Review: P. Schine Gold, Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth Century America.
American Jewish History 91:2 (June, 2003).
- Book Review: D. E. Kaplan, American Reform Judaism. American Jewish Archives Journal, in press.
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