Allan Amanik

Education:

Ph.D., New York University - 2014 (History and Judaic Studies)

M.A., Brandeis University - 2008 (Near Eastern Judaic Studies)

Areas of Expertise:

Amanik specializes in U.S. history, American Jewish history, immigration, ethnicity, and gender studies. His research interests include New York City, Brooklyn, local history, social welfare policy in the United States, death and dying in America, and history of the family.

Books and Publications

"Introduction" in Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed eds. Allan Amanik and Kami Fletcher. University Press of Mississippi. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020

Amanik, Allan and Kami Fletcher eds. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Jackson: University Press of Mississipi. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2020

Amanik, Allan. Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York (New York: New York University Press, 2019). (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2019

Book review: Daniel Judson, "Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money." American Jewish History (Summer 2019). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2019

"Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade." In Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, 25-47. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2018. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018

"'All Will Be Fine, Jewish and Promptly Attended': Tradition and the Rise of New York Jewish Undertakers, 1890-1950," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 35, no. 4 (Summer 2017): 91-109. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017

Book Review: Peter Adams, "Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 109, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 329-330 (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2016

Research Activities

Mellon Transfer Student Research Program, Fall 2020 2020

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Cemetery," as part of Street and Sanctuary: Jews and Visibility in American Public Spaces, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Fall Colloquium, December 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

"Grief, Mourning, Race, and National Memorial: A Conversation with the editors of Till Death Do Us Part," University Press of Mississippi Book Talk, June 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

"Jewish and African American Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed," The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at New England Historic Genealogical Society, December 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

"The National Council of Jewish Women, Social Welfare, and Incarceration in Postwar New York," Biennial Scholars Conference on American Jewish History, American Jewish Historical Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

"Matters of Grave Insurance: Landsmanshaftn, Widows'Cemetery Privileges, and Early New York Social Welfare Programs,"organizer and presenter. Panel: "Jews, Gender, and the State," Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019

"Jewish Rural Cemeteries and Local Constructions of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century New York City," presenter and organizer. Panel: ?The Workings of Race and Nationhood in African America, Arab, Chaldean, Chinese, and Jewish Cemeteries in Nineteenth-Century America,? American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

"Naturalization and Jewish Merchants in British North America, 1740-1790," presenter. Panel: "Jews, Law and Trade in the Eighteenth Century," Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Conference, Washington, DC, December 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017

"Overseas Trade and Eighteenth-Century Family Dynamics among Early American Jewish Merchants," CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Jewish Studies Lecture Series, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

"The Society of Righteous Women: Gender, Tradition, and Benevolent Societies in New York City's Nineteenth-Century German Jewish Congregation Ahawath Chesed," Family History Today Lecture Series, Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute and Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, May 23, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

"Brooklyn Women Work for Unity: Jewish, Italian, and African American Cooperation in the Brownsville Women's Non-Partisan Committee for Civic Rights, 1944" at the Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015

"A Beautiful Garden Consecrated to the Lord: Jewish Boundaries and Belonging in New York City?s Rural Cemetery Movement" at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, GA April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

"Urban Planning, Public Health and the Rise of the Jewish Undertaker, New York City, 1850-1920,? at the Annual Researching New York Conference, University at Albany, SUNY, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

"Workingmen & Widows: New York Jewish Fraternalism and the Emergent Welfare State, 1900-1930,? at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

Professional Leadership

Phi Beta Kappa Admissions Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020

Committee on Course and Standing, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019

Phi Beta Kappa Admissions Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019

Committee on Course and Standing, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018

Committee on the Review of Student Records, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017

Committee on the Review of Student Records, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016

Working Group to review COACHE survey data to enhance overall faculty satisfaction, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016

Community Activities

Curriculum Consultant / Instructor. Junior Scholars Program, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, July. 2015

Other Professional Activities

Executive Committee, Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society. 2020

Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society. 2016

Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society. 2015