NYU Professor and NYU Press author Hasia Diner has received a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities – Intellectual & Cultural History. Her book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
In her Guggenheim year she will be working on her newest project, “Peddlers: A New World Jewish History,” which will look at the role of on-the-road peddling as a force which stimulated Jewish migration to and integration in nearly every place in the “new world,” including the British Isles, North, South, and Central America, South Africa, and the Antipodes. How, she wants to know, did this utterly prosaic and familiar occupation serve as an engine which shaped modern Jewish history and the histories of all those places.
