Dr. David Shneer
Dr. David Shneer, a co-founder of Jewish Mosaic, is an associate professor of history and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. His work concentrates on modern Jewish culture, Soviet Jewish history, and Jews and sexuality. His most recent books include “Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture” (Cambridge, 2004) and “New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora” (NYU Press, 2005) co-authored with Caryn Aviv. |
Shneer and Aviv are also co-authors of the forthcoming textbook “American Queer, Now and Then” (Paradigm Publishers, 2006) and co-edited the groundbreaking anthology “Queer Jews” (Routledge, 2002). His latest book project, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust, looks at the lives and work of two dozen World War II military photographers to examine how Soviet Jewish photographers encountered evidence of Nazi genocide on the Eastern Front. As a board member of Jewish Mosaic and as a scholar, Shneer speaks widely about issues of Jews and sexuality, most recently giving talks about the role of LGBT Jews in advancing Jewish culture at Rejewvenation: The Future of Jewish Cultures, a conference held at the University of Toronto in October 2005. Shneer earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley. |