Jerome Chanes bio

Jerome Chanes has taught American Jewish sociology, Jewish public policy issues, and biblical Hebrew at Barnard College, Stern College, Harvard University, Brandeis and Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor most recently of A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (1998), and is the author of A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages (2000) and of the widely-used monograph A Primer on the American Jewish Community (1999), as well as an author and editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica.