Tony Michels
George Mosse Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Dept. of History, 5220 Humanities
Office: 608-265-2521
aemichels@wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History. His book, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005) won the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy of Jewish Research in 2006. During the last academic year, Michels delivered lectures and papers at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, the Scholars Conference of the American Jewish Historical Society, University of Washington, Seattle, University of California, Los Angeles, The Museum at Eldridge Street, and the San Francisco Jewish Public Library. He co-organized, with Professor Rebecca Kobrin of Columbia University, a two-day conference entitled “Jews and American Capitalism,” which took place in March 2008 at Columbia and New York University. He has recently completed a documentary reader entitled, “Jewish Radicals” that will be published by New York University Press. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he taught a new course on Jewish political history in Russia, Israel, and the United States, in addition to courses in American Jewish history and immigration history.
