About the lecturer

Professor Monty N. Penkower is Professor of History and chairman of the History department at Touro College. He graduated magna cum laude from Yeshiva College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American History from Columbia University. He also taught at City College and Bard College, and gave the first course on the Holocaust offered by New York University's graduate History program. His books include The Jews Were Expendable: Essays on the Diplomacy of the Holocaust, and he is currently working on a volume on Anglo-American foreign relations regarding Palestine during World War II. His writings on American and contemporary Jewish history, particularly on the Holocaust and Zionism, have appeared in numerous journals.