Moses Rischin (1925-2020[1]) was an American historian, author, lecturer, editor, and emeritus professor of history at San Francisco State University.[2][3] He coined the phrase new Mormon history in a 1969 article of the same name.[4]
Rischin is considered an authority on American ethnic and immigration history[5][6] and a pioneer in the field of American Jewish history.[7] Historian Selma Berrol, however, has challenged the minimal treatment Rischin has given to the tensions between earlier German Jews and later Russian Jews in America.[8]
Rischin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.[1] His undergraduate studies were at Brooklyn College.[9] Harvard University awarded him a Ph.D. in 1957.[10]
Ruschin became a professor at San Francisco State University in 1964.[11] In addition to his professorship, he sat on the board for the Journal of American Ethnic History and on the council of the American Jewish History Society.[12][13] During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rischin was a signatory of "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" wherein 400 historians criticized efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton.[14][15]
He was the longtime director of the Western Jewish History Center, at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, from its founding in 1967;[16][17] from 2005 until approximately 2010, an annual lecture was given there in his name.[18]
A collection of historical essays was published in Rischin's honor in 1996.[19]
A character in the 1967 novel Meyer Meyer by Helen Hudson may have been partly modeled after him.[20]
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