Daniel Soyer

Daniel Soyer is professor of History at Fordham University. Most recently, he is the editor of The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021), and author of Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell, 2021). His other books include, with Annie Polland, The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (NYU, 2012), winner of a National Jewish Book Award; Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (Harvard, 1997), winner of the Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society; and, with Jocelyn Cohen, My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (NYU, 2006), an anthology of selections from YIVO’s 1942 autobiography contest, translated from Yiddish.