Daniel Soyer
Associate Professor, PhD, NYU
American immigration and ethnicity; urban; New York
City; Jewish
Dr.
Soyer's research interests include the formation of American ethnic
identities through fraternalism, the relationship of immigrant
communities with communities of origin; Jewish immigrant radicalism; and
New York politics. With Dr. Jocelyn Cohen, Dr. Soyer has edited and
translated an anthology of immigrant autobiographies from the archives
of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Entitled My Future Is in
America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants, it
is available from New York University Press (2006). Dr. Soyer is also
the editor of A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and
Reform in the New York City Garment Industry was published in 2005
by Fordham University Press. His eaarlier book, Jewish Immigrant
Associations and American Identity in New York , 1880-1939
(Harvard, 1997; paperback, Wayne State University Press, 2001), won the
Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society and the
Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press. He has published
articles in a number of journals and advised a variety of film and
exhibition projects at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, WNET-TV, the
Museum of the City of New York, and elsewhere, and is a member of the
academic council of the American Jewish Historical Society.