Rebecca KobrinRebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University where she is also the co-director of Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. In addition to her book Jewsh Bialystok and Its Diaspora: (Indiana University Press, 2010) which awarded the Jordan Schnitzer prize for best book in modern Jewish history (2012). She is also the editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), Salo Baron: Using the Past to Shape the Future of Jewish Studies in America (Columbia University Press, 2022) and is co-editor with Adam Teller of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Jewish History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Read More Read Less