David Shneer

David Shneer is director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Denver. His most recent book New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (New York University, 2005) questions whether Jews around the world still see themselves living “in diaspora.” His previous books include Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture (Cambridge, 2004) and Queer Jews (Routledge 2002). He is currently working on a book on Soviet Jewish photographers and World War II.