Lila Corwin Berman

Lila Corwin Berman is Professor of History at Temple University, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She received her B.A. from Amherst College and her Ph.D. from Yale. Berman is author of _The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion Dollar Institution_ (Princeton, 2020), as well as _Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity_ (California, 2009) and _Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit (Chicago, 2015)_. Her articles have appeared in the _Washington Post_, the _Forward_, and the _Jewish Week_, as well as several scholarly journals. She is a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.