Faculty bio-Natan Meir

Natan M. Meir Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies Ph.D. Columbia University (2004) Contact Info: Neuberger Hall 315 503-725-4038 meir @ pdx.edu Office hours: Tues 4:00-5:00, Wed 12:00-2:00  and by appointment

Fields of Expertise:
Modern Jewish history; social and cultural history of East European Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He is the author of Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, 1861-1914 (Indiana University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History (Indiana, 2010). 

Courses taught: 

·         HST 199/399, Introduction to Judaism

·         HST 399, Jewish History II: From the Middle Ages to the Present

·         HST 399, The Holocaust

·         HST 399, History of Zionism

·         HST 405E/505E, Colloquium in East European Jewish History: The Shtetl

·         HST 407E/507E, Seminar in East European Jewish History: The Shtetl

·         HST 410/510, Portland Jews, U.S. Jews