Hasia Din­er is a pro­fes­sor of Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry and for­mer chair of the Irish Stud­ies pro­gram at New York Uni­ver­si­ty. She is the author of numer­ous books on Jew­ish and Irish his­to­ries in the U.S., includ­ing the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award-win­ning We Remem­ber with Rev­er­ence and Love, which also earned the Saul Vein­er Prize for most out­stand­ing book in Amer­i­can Jew­ish his­to­ry, and the James Beard final­ist Hun­ger­ing for Amer­i­ca. Din­er has also held Guggen­heim and Ful­bright fel­low­ships and served as Direc­tor of the Goren Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Jew­ish History.