Kenneth B. Moss

Kenneth B. Moss is the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and director of the Jacob and Joyce Z. Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland (2021), which received the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for History from the Jewish Book Council, the 2022 Oskar Halecki Award for Polish and East Central European History from the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America, and honorable mention for the 2022 Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies; and of Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution (2009), which received the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and has now appeared in a revised Hebrew version as Yemei ha-ma’asim: Tkhiat ha-tarbut ha-yehudit bi-tkufat ha-mahpekhah ha-rusit. With Ben Nathans and Taro Tsurumi, he coedited From Europe’s East to the Middle East (2021). From 2014 to 2020, he coedited Jewish Social Studies. He is the coeditor, with Israel Bartal, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918.