Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Goren-Goldstein Center for American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books in that field and in the history of American women and American immigration history. Her most recent publications include Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration; Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America; (with Beryl Lief Benderly) Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America: From Colonial Times to the Present and The Jews of the United States: 1654–2000.