David Sorkin

David Sorkin
Alma mater	University of California
Main interests	Jewish Studies
Notable ideas	Port Jew

David Sorkin is an award-winning author and professor specializing in the intersection of Jewish and European history. Sorkin has published several prominent books on Jewish and European history and currently teaches modern Jewish History at Yale University.

Sorkin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa). In 1977 he received a Masters degree in Comparative Literature, and in 1983 a PhD in History from the University of California-Berkeley.

From 1983 to 1986 he worked as Assistant Professor of Judaic studies at Brown University. In 1986 he became a Research Fellow and in 1990 a Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University. He was a Governing Body Fellow at St. Antony's College and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. From 1992 to 2011 he was Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2011 to 2014 he served as Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 2014 he moved to Yale where he is the Lucy G. Moses Professor in the Department of History and Program in Judaic Studies.

Sorkin has published several prominent works on Jewish history. His first book, The Transformation of Germany Jewry, 1780-1840 published in 1987, argued that Jewish culture in the German states constituted a “subculture.” In 1996 he wrote Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, a concise study of Mendelssohn's Jewish thought in which he emphasized the neglected Hebrew writings. The book has been translated into French, German, and Italian.

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