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Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
Areas of expertise:
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
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(518) 442-3078
Biography:
Barry Trachtenberg is an assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the University at Albany. He received his doctorate in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a post-graduate diploma in Jewish studies at Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a master's degree in U.S. history from the University of Vermont. He is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of the 1905 Russian Revolution in the creation of Yiddish studies and he is a member of a collaborative research project examining the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
Barry Trachtenberg is an assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the University at Albany. He received his doctorate in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a post-graduate diploma in Jewish studies at Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a master's degree in U.S. history from the University of Vermont. He is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of the 1905 Russian Revolution in the creation of Yiddish studies and he is a member of a collaborative research project examining the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
