Professor Stephen Berk
Stephen M. Berk is the Henry and Sally Schaffer Chair of Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Union. Widely known as a superb lecturer and teacher, he is the author of “Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882” and the author of many articles on Eastern Europe, Russian Jewish History, anti-Semitism and American policy in the Middle East. Professor Berk has lectured in numerous cities for the UJA and Israel Bonds and at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has led trips to Russia, Spain, Europe, Israel and Eastern Europe. For more information, call the Office of Alumni Relations at (518) 388-6168.