Evolve Web Conversation: When Race, Politics, & Jewish Studies Collide: Censorship and the Debate Over Black Power, Jewish Politics with Professor Marc Dollinger

Dr. Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He has served as research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, where he coordinated the program in Jewish studies. Dollinger is author of four scholarly books in American Jewish history, most recently Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. He has published entries in the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, and the Encyclopedia of African American Education. His next project, an academic memoir titled Laundering Antisemitism: Identity Politics, Ethnic Studies, and the University, Indiana University Press, traces his experiences as an identified Jewish (and Zionist) professor in the current political climate. Dollinger currently serves on the executive board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is also board president of URJ Camp Newman. The professor is a past president of both the Jewish Community High School of the Bay and Brandeis Hillel Day School. He also currently serves on the boards of the American Jewish Historical Society, where he chairs the academic council; T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; and the Judah Magnes Museum Foundation. He sat on the California advisory committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was named Volunteer of the Year by the SF Jewish Community Federation and has been awarded the San Francisco JCRC’s Courageous Leader award.