Name Robert Weisbord | ||
Books Israel in the Black American, Ebony kinship; Africa - Afr, The Chief Rabbi - the Pope - an, Racism and the Olympics, Genocide?: Birth Control a |
Robert G. Weisbord is professor emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island. He has published six books and numerous articles dealing with issues of racism in sports, the Vatican, and the Holocaust. He taught an Afro-American history course at the University of Rhode Island in 1966 which was the first such offering at a New England state university. His work has been reviewed in Jewish Social Studies, African Affairs, The Journal of American History, The Black Scholar, Phylon, The Journal of Sex Research, The Journal of Southern History, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Political Science Quarterly, Middle East Journal, American Journal of Sociology, Family Planning Perspectives,Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,Shofar, and Contemporary Sociology.
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Weisbord received his BA in History from New York University in 1955 and his Phd in History from New York University in 1966.
In 1993, the Chicago Tribune reported on research conducted by Weisbord and Norbert Hedderich which changed the historical view of boxer Max Schmeling from a Nazi sympathizer to someone who aided Jews. American scholar and author Harry J. Cargas, said Weisbord's book, The Chief Rabbi, The Pope, and The Holocaust, "shows excellent scholarship, and is a valuable contribution to both the Holocaust literature and the literature of Jewish-Catholic relation."