Max Daniel

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Public Historian and Jewish Heritage Collection Coordinator

Education
PhD in History, UCLA
MA in History, UCLA
BA in Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
BA in American Studies, Columbia University

Research Interest
Max Modiano Daniel is the public historian and Jewish Heritage Collection coordinator at Special Collections in the Addlestone Library. He also teaches in Jewish Studies. His areas of research include Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews, American Jewish history, race and ethnicity, and Jewish languages.

Selected Publications

• “Women, Cookbooks, and the Making of American Sephardic Culture," American Jewish History, Vol. 107, no. 2/3 (2023), 633-658.
• “Jews, Immigration, and the Limits of Empathy,” Oasis: The Magazine of the Skirball Cultural Center (2023), 31-33.
• “A Judeo-Spanish Love Letter (New York, 1913),” Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492-Present, ed. Adriana Brodsky and Laura Leibman (New York: NYU Press, 2023), 307-309 .
• “Sephardic Jewish persons are classified as white’: Education, Race, and Sephardic Jews in the 1970s,” Jewish Identities in the American West: Relational Perspectives, ed. Ellen Eisenberg, (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2022), 290-325.
• “The UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative: Finding the Keys to an Untold History,” Judaica Librarianship 21 (2020), 38-48.

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