19 Facts About Rafael Medoff

Rafael Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere.

Rafael Medoff has served on the editorial boards of American Jewish History, Southern Jewish History, Shofar and Menorah Review.

Rafael Medoff has been closely associated and Academic Council member of American Jewish Historical Society for many years.

Rafael Medoff has served on its Academic Council since 1995, authored installments of its "Chapters in American Jewish History" series, and served as associate book review editor and then associate editor of its scholarly journal, American Jewish History.

Rafael Medoff has served as a consultant to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland.

Rafael Medoff has accused the US State Department of downplaying official antisemitism in the Arab world, and made comparisons with State Department's downplaying of official German antisemitism in the 1930s.

Rafael Medoff is the author or editor of 16 books about American Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.

Any historian of the complex relationship of American Jews and Israel, indeed every serious student of American Jewish history, must confront the American Jewish dilemma that Rafael Medoff has explored and explained in this fine monograph.

Rafael Medoff coauthored the Historical Dictionary of Zionism with Prof.

Rafael Medoff deserves praise for elucidating with great charm and authenticity the doomed efforts of an important segment of American Jewry to rescue persecuted European Jews and avert Arab-Israel conflict.

In 2008, Rafael Medoff authored "Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Haskel Lookstein", a lengthy biographical essay published as a paperback by Ktav.

Subsequently, an updated version of that book was included in the two-volume Rav Chesed: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, which Rafael Medoff edited, and was published by Ktav in 2009.

Rafael Medoff authored installments of American Jewish Historical Society's "Chapters in American Jewish History" series, and served as associate book review editor and then associate editor of its scholarly journal, American Jewish History.

Rafael Medoff's essays have appeared in various scholarly journals, including Studies in Zionism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Journal of Genocide Research, American Jewish History, and American Jewish Archives.

Rafael Medoff served as guest editor for the autumn 2004 issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

Rafael Medoff authored the essay "New Yorkers and the Birth of Israel", which was featured in the May 1998 New York Times supplement commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Israel.

Rafael Medoff has published op-eds concerning the Holocaust and related issues in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Detroit Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Sun, Ha'aretz, the Jerusalem Report, the Jerusalem Post, and Germany's largest daily newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung.

Rafael Medoff has authored entries for numerous encyclopedias and reference books, including the Encyclopaedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of the Diaspora, the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, the Columbia History of the Jewish People in America, American National Biography, the Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, and Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

Rafael Medoff teamed up with comic book artist Sal Amendola on a full-page political cartoon about US athletes who boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which appeared in The New Republic in August 2008.