Dr. Hasia R. Diner is professor emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. She is the former series editor for the Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish History. Among her many books are Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration; The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000;We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After theHolocaust, 1945–1962; and Immigration: An American History, with Carl Bon Tempo.
Israelism captures a concerted effort that admonishes American Jews to see Israel as a — or maybe the — pillar of Jewish identity, synonymous with their Jewishness.