Jonathan Daniel Sarna

University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History as well as Director of Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. Leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. Chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Past President, Association for Jewish Studies. Treasurer, American Academy of Religion.    Also, contributor to the Forward newspaper and member of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's Academic Advisory Board. Recipient of three honorary doctoral degrees as well as the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry's Marshall Sklare Award and the American Jewish Historical Society's Lee M. Friedman Award. Wrote or edited more than thirty books, including the acclaimed American Judaism: A History (2004), winner of the Jewish Book Council's Jewish Book of the Year Award in 2004. Other books include (with Benjamin Shapell) Lincoln and the Jews: A History  (2015) winner of awards from the Civil War Roundtable and the Lincoln Group of New York.