Robert Weisbord

Robert G. Weisbord is professor emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island. He has published six books and numerous articles dealing with issues of racism in sports, the Vatican, and the Holocaust.^[1] His work has been reviewed in Jewish Social Studies, African Affairs,^[2] The Journal of American History,^[3] The Black Scholar,^[3] Phylon,^[4] The Journal of Sex Research,^[5] The Journal of Southern History,^[6] The International Journal of African Historical Studies,^[7] Political Science Quarterly,^[8] Middle East Journal,^[8] American Journal of Sociology,^[9] Family Planning Perspectives,^[10]Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,^[11]Shofar,^[12] and Contemporary Sociology.^[13]

Biography

Weisbord received his BA in History from New York University in 1955 and his Phd in History from New York University in 1966.^[1]

In 1993, the Chicago Tribune reported on research conducted by Weisbord and Norbert Hedderich which changed the historical view of boxer Max Schmeling from a Nazi sympathizer to someone who aided Jews.^[14][15] American scholar and author Harry J. Cargas, said Weisbord's book, The Chief Rabbi, The Pope, and The Holocaust, "shows excellent scholarship, and is a valuable contribution to both the Holocaust literature and the literature of Jewish-Catholic relation." ^[16]

Publications

• The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992), written with Wallace P. Sillanpoa. ISBN 1412807913.
• Israel in the Black American Perspective (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985), assisted by Richard Kazarian. ISBN 0313240167.
• Genocide?: Birth Control and the Black American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press and Two Continents, 1975). ISBN 0837180848.
• Ebony Kinship: African, Africans, and the Afro-American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1973). ISBN 0837164168.
• Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew (Westport, Connecticut: Negro University Press, 1970), written with Arthur Stein. ISBN 0805203656.
• African Zion; the attempt to establish a Jewish colony in the East Africa Protectorate, 1903-1905 Jewish Publication Society of America; First edition (1968). ASIN: B00005VBE6.

Awards

• 1987: URI Foundations Scholarly Excellence Award.^[17]
• 2007: URI Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship for the project “Black Power and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.”^[18]
• 2010: URI Faculty Research Grant for the project “Racial Questions in the Modern Olympics: The Case of South Africa.”^[18]

References

1. "Faculty Profile". University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
2. M., G. H. "Review of African Zion". African Affairs. 69 (277): 411–411. JSTOR 720239.
3. Krueger, Thomas A. (1 January 1976). "Review of Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American". The Journal of American History. 63 (3): 782–783. doi:10.2307/1887456. JSTOR 1887456.
4. H.B.R. (1 January 1975). Weisbord, Robert G., ed. "Interrelations of Afro-Americans and Africans". Phylon (1960-). 36 (1): 93–94. doi:10.2307/274850. JSTOR 274850.
5. Wollman, Leo (1 January 1976). "Review of Genocide?". The Journal of Sex Research. 12 (3): 245–245. JSTOR 3811721.
6. Lord, Donald C. (1 January 1974). "Review of Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American". The Journal of Southern History. 40 (2): 343–344. doi:10.2307/2206935. JSTOR 2206935.
7. Schmokel, Wolfe W. (1 January 1976). "Review of Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 9 (1): 129–131. doi:10.2307/217409. JSTOR 217409.
8. Robinson, Pearl T. (1 January 1974). "Review of Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American". Political Science Quarterly. 89 (4): 899–901. doi:10.2307/2148926. JSTOR 2148926.
9. Dinnerstein, Leonard (1 January 1971). "Review of Black-Jewish Relations in New York City., , ; Bittersweet Encounter". American Journal of Sociology. 77 (3): 629–632. JSTOR 2776211.
10. Attah, E. B. (1 January 1976). Weisbord, Robert G., ed. "The Genocide Debate". Family Planning Perspectives. 8 (2): 94–95. doi:10.2307/2133997. JSTOR 2133997.
11. Burgess, M. Elaine (1 January 1975). "Review of Breaking the Bonds of Racism, , ; Ebony Kinship". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 421: 185–186. JSTOR 1040912.
12. Cargas, Harry James (1 January 1993). "Review of The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust". Shofar. 11 (2): 180–181. JSTOR 42941819.
13. Porter, Jack Nusan (1 January 1976). "Review of The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945., ; Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American". Contemporary Sociology. 5 (4): 490–492. doi:10.2307/2063837. JSTOR 2063837.
14. "Schmeling aided Jews, study says". Chicago Tribune. June 24, 1993. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
15. Goldstein, Gerald (June 27, 1993). "Historians erase Schmeling blot". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
16. "Editorial Reviews". Barnes & Nobles. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
17. "Excellence Award Winners". URI Foundation. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
18. "Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards". University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

• Kempton, Murray. "What a Problem!" The New York Review of Books. 29 June 1972.
• "The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations" Printed Matter. 29 March 2009.