Who We Are
Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
Wayne State University
2311 Faculty Administration Building
656 W. Kirby
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-2679
Fax: (313) 577-8136
E-mail: aa2690@wayne.edu
Staff:
David Weinberg, Director Sandy Loeffler, Administrative Assistant
David Weinberg is
Director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies and Professor of
History at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has been a visiting
professor in modern Jewish history at the University of Michigan, the
University of Wisconsin, the
University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the
Hebrew University, and the University of New South Wales in Sydney,
Australia.
Dr. Weinberg earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He is former editor of Shoah and is presently a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Shofar. Dr. Weinberg also serves on the Academic Advisory boards of the Wayne State University Press and the Holocaust Memorial Center of Detroit. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College, and a Wayne State University Distinguished Faculty Fellowship and Faculty Recognition Award.
Dr. Weinberg is the author of Community on Trial: The Jews of Paris in the 1930s and Between Tradition and Modernity: Haim Zhitlowski, Simon Dubnow, Ahad Ha-Am, and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Identity. He has published and lectured extensively in America, Europe, Australia and Israel on Modern European Jewish History and the Holocaust. Dr. Weinberg is presently preparing a study of the reconstruction of European Jewish life after World War II.
Dr. Weinberg is available for public lectures. For more information, click on Director's Lecture Topics.
Sandy joined the Center in September 1995. She is responsible for
the daily administrative functioning of the Center, coordinating speakers
and conferences and developing contacts in the community. Sandy has
worked in the field of Jewish communal service both as a professional and
as a volunteer since she was a student. From 1976-78, she lived in
Israel where she worked at the Sourasky Library of Tel-Aviv University and
at Bet ha-Tefutsot (Museum of the Diaspora). In 2001, she received an award from the
Office of the President for Exceptional Service to Wayne State University.
Earlier this year, she participated in the Sar-el program (
Volunteers for Israel ) and served as a volunteer on an Israeli army base
near Tel-Aviv. Sandy and her family have lived in the Detroit area
since 1987.
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Advisory Board |
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| George M. Zeltzer, Chair | |
| Cynthia I. Brody | Paul S. Magy |
| Sanford N. Cohen, M.D. | Dr. Phoebe Mainster |
| Prof. Martin M. Herman | Prof. Rosyln Abt Schindler |
| Jane Hoehner | Prof. Claude Schochet |
| Howard Jacobson | Dr. Howard N. Shapiro |
| Evelyn Hoffman Kasle | Charles A. Soberman |
| Jonathan D. Lowe | Prof. Guy Stern |