Noam Pianko

Noam F. Pianko is an American academic. He is the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies and the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington.[1]

Noam Pianko in 2007

Pianko obtained his PhD at Yale University,[1] writing his dissertation on Simon Rawidowicz, Mordechai Kaplan, and Hans Kohn.[2][3] He has also written Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation (Rutgers University Press, 2015).

Pianko served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2019 to 2021, when he resigned after receiving criticism for participating in a Zoom meeting with Steven M. Cohen, who had been accused of sexual harassment.[4][5]

References

  1. "Noam Pianko". University of Washington. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. Pianko, Noam (2010). Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn. Indiana University Press.
  3. Myers, David N. (2009). Between Jew & Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz. University Press of New England. p. 14. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. "Leadership Announcement from the AJS Executive Committee". Association for Jewish Studies. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  5. Wisse, Ruth R. "The Hounding of Noam Pianko". Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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