Jewish Past

What is it about?

Henry Abramson serves as a Dean of Touro College. A native of northern Ontario, Canada, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto and held post-doctoral and visiting appointments at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research has been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and he received the Excellence in the Academy Award from the National Education Association. The author of several books, his popular online lectures include the Jewish History in Daf Yomi podcast. He currently lives in the Five Towns, where he serves as Resident Scholar of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst.