Teachable Moments, or How the Irish Taught the Jews to Become American

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul And Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is also director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her research interests include American Jewish history, American immigration, and women’s history. She is currently investigating Irish and Jewish interactions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Diner received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an elected member of both the Society of American Historians and the American Academy of Jewish Research, and was previously a Guggenheim fellow.