Michael
Hoberman
Michael Hoberman
Research Topic
Theodore Seixas Solomons: Jewish Conservationist of the High Sierra
Bio
Michael Hoberman is a professor of American literature at Fitchburg State University. Michael Hoberman's shorter writings on Jewish history in North America can be found in Tablet Magazine and other popular and scholarly venues. His current project explores the early life of Theodore Seixas Solomons, the San Francisco-born scion of a Jewish family whose North American roots go back to the late seventeenth century. The story of Solomons's upbringing in late nineteenth-century San Francisco and his youthful exploration in the Sierra offers insight into the formative role that landscapes and ideas about wilderness have played in the shifting cultural and religious perspectives of Jewish Americans.
Hoberman received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Selected publications
- Imagining American Jews (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).
- A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History. (Rutgers University Press, 2019).
