Writing

I am the author of International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge University Press 2021) [US distribution], National Jewish Book Award Winner for Writing Based on Archival Material. It tells the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands in war’s wake. I am taking related speaking and teaching engagements.
See my published academic articles related to the above research: “Waging Relief,” “La philanthropie de la communauté juive américaine pendant la Grande Guerre,” and “Les associations juives à la Société des Nations.” I also have a chapter in a book on the history of the Joint Distribution Committee.
I served as Co-Investigator for a cooperative research and heritage engagement project on Jewish country houses in Europe from 2019-2026. I am editing a collective volume deriving from this project on Conceptualising Jewish Business Dynasties for publication in 2027. I also led strands of this project related to the Holocaust, philanthropy, gender, and heritage educator training.
I am deeply into a project on gender and Jewish international activism. I published and introduced a special journal issue on gendering Jewish internationalism in the long twentieth century. I am now writing my second book, Jewish Women and Human Rights: Internationalism from the Salon to the NGO, and presenting new research towards it.
I am happy to serve as an expert historian for the press or as a public intellectual elsewhere. My portfolio includes my published pieces: “Solomon & Gaenor and #MeToo” (JewThink), “Bevis Marks: Britain’s oldest synagogue is central to London’s history – here’s why it needs protecting” (the Conversation UK), “Why the Pittsburgh Shooter Raged About Immigration” (Washington Post), “A History of Anti-HIAS Hate” (Slate), and “Pittsburgh showed the difference between US and UK antisemitism” (Guardian). I served extensively as an expert for Alliance Magazine’s June 2025 piece “Foreign Waters” on our post-aid future, predicting (correctly) how less development aid might mean more war. Listen to interviews: live interview on anti-Jewish violence in Britain in May 2026 (BBC Radio Wales), on the six-pointed star (BBC Radio Wales All Things Considered), on the podcast drama “Special Occasions” by Amy Ng (Fizzy Sherbet Podcast), and on Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 (BBC Radio Wales).