Robert Weisbord

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.^[1] His work has been reviewed in Jewish Social Studies, African Affairs,^[2] The Journal of American History,^[3] The Black Scholar,^[3] Phylon,^[4] The Journal of Sex Research, ^[5] The Journal of Southern History, ^[6] The International Journal of African Historical Studies, ^[7] Political Science Quarterly,^[8] Middle East Journal,^[8] American Journal of Sociology, ^[9] Family Planning Perspectives, ^[10]Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, ^[11]Shofar,^[12] and Contemporary Sociology.^[13]

Biography

Weisbord received his BA in History from New York University in 1955 and his Phd in History from New York University in 1966.^[1]

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.^[14][15] 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." ^[16]

Publications

• The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992), written with Wallace P. Sillanpoa. ISBN 1412807913.
• Israel in the Black American Perspective (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985), assisted by Richard Kazarian. ISBN 0313240167.
• Genocide?: Birth Control and the Black American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press and Two Continents, 1975). ISBN 0837180848.
• Ebony Kinship: African, Africans, and the Afro-American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1973). ISBN 0837164168.
• Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew (Westport, Connecticut: Negro University Press, 1970), written with Arthur Stein. ISBN 0805203656.
• African Zion; the attempt to establish a Jewish colony in the East Africa Protectorate, 1903-1905 Jewish Publication Society of America; First edition (1968). ASIN: B00005VBE6.

Awards

• 1987: URI Foundations Scholarly Excellence Award.^[17]
• 2007: URI Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship for the project “Black Power and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.”^[18]
• 2010: URI Faculty Research Grant for the project “Racial Questions in the Modern Olympics: The Case of South Africa.”^[18]

References

1. "Faculty Profile". www.uri.edu. University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
2. "African Zion by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
3. "Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
4. "Interrelations of Afro-Americans and Africans". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
5. "Genocide? by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
6. "Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American by Robert G. Weisbord; Floyd B. McKissick". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
7. "Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
8. "Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
9. "Black-Jewish Relations in New York City. by Louis Harris; Bert E. Swanson; Bittersweet Encounter. by Robert G. Weisbord; Arthur Stein". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
10. "The Genocide Debate". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
11. "Breaking the Bonds of Racism by Paul Lindsey; Ouida Lindsey; Ebony Kinship by Robert G. Weisbord". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
12. "The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust by Robert G. Weisbord; Wallace P. Sillanpoa". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
13. "The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. by Lucy S. Dawidowicz; Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American. by Robert Weisbord; Wallace P. Sillanpoa". www.jstor.org. JSTOR. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
14. "Schmeling aided Jews, study says". Chicago Tribune. June 24, 1993. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
15. Goldstein, Gerald (June 27, 1993). "Historians erase Schmeling blot". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
16. "Editorial Reviews". http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. Retrieved 29 May 2015. External link in |website= (help)
17. "Excellence Award Winners". http://www.urifoundation.org. Retrieved 14 May 2015. External link in |website= (help)
18. "Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards". www.uri.edu. University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

• Kempton, Murray. "What a Problem!" The New York Review of Books. 29 June 1972.
• "The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations" Printed Matter. 29 March 2009.