• Raul Hilberg: Historian prepared to risk his career to expose the Holocaust 

  Joffe, Lawrence (The Guardian, 2007-09-24)

  Raul Hilberg, a refugee from Austria, whose family fled Austria to New York City to escape the Holocaust, dedicated his scholarly career to documenting and contextualizing the facts about the Holocaust. He studied at ...
• HowardZinn.org 

  Zinn, Howard (2021)

  A Web Site devoted to Howard Zinn. It includes biographical information, archival material from Zinn's papers a various repositories, articles he wrote, interviews with him, information about his many projects, etc. Click ...
• For Historian Howard Zinn, Political Struggle Trumped All Private Concerns 

  Thrope, Samuel (Haaretz, 2012-12-17)

  This article discusses the book, "Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left" by Martin Duberman. Zinn was a prominent historian in the 20th century. He was committed to an approach to history that tells the stories of the marginalized ...
• Stanley Aronowitz, longtime labor and civil rights activist, dies at 88 

  Kampeas, Stanley (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2021-08-21)

  "Stanley Aronowitz, a longtime activist and theorist who was hugely influential in the labor and civil rights movements, has died at 88." Click on the link above to access the rest of this biographical obituary.
• Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88 

  Roberts, Sam (The New York Times, 2021-08-23)

  "Professor Aronowitz, a social theorist who taught at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, called himself a “working-class intellectual.” He maintained that direct action was a more potent weapon for workers ...
• Alan Greenspan 

  Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020)

  Alan Greenspan is an economist who earned his BA and MA in economics at New York University and went on to enroll in the doctoral program at Columbia University. There he met and became close to Ayn Rand and was highly ...
• Jewish Leader Irving Abella at 80: An Appreciation 

  Koffman, David S. (TheJ.ca, 2020-07-12)

  An article about Irving Abella, Professor Emeritus at York University and eminent historian. Written to honor Abella on his 89th birthday, discusses his many notable achievements, his membership in the Order of Canada, his ...
• Uriel Weinreich: Contact Linguist, Historical Linguist, and Yiddishist Par Excellence 

  Bleaman, Isaac L. (BRILL - Journal of Jewish Languages, 2017)

  Uriel Weinreich was a renowned linguist, who, in addition to his work on linguistics generally, made significant contributions to both the study and teaching of Yiddish. This article is part of a special issue of the Journal ...
• Janet L. Yellen - Research 

  Brookings Institute (Brookings Institute, 2020)

  Links to several presentations Janet Yellen gave at the Brookings Institute, in which she discusses her research. Click on the link above to visit the site.
• Janet Yellen: Background And Philosophy 

  Cussen, Mark P. (Investopeida, 2020-11-23)

  Nominated by President Barack Obama in 2013, Janet Yellen was the first woman to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2020 President elect Joe Biden nominated her to be the first woman to serve as Secretary of ...
• Jeffrey D. Sachs: American economist 

  The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica (The Encyclopedia Britannica, 2019-11-01)

  The Encyclopedia Birtannica's biographical article on Jeffrey Sacks discusses the prominent economist, Jeffrey Sachs and some of his notable achievements. His current initiatives are focused around issues of poverty, the ...
• Sustainable Development Goals and Health: Toward a Revolution in Values 

  Sachs, Jeffrey (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Jeffrey Sachs contributed the chapter, "Sustainable Development Goals and Health: Toward a Revolution in Values," to the open access book, "Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air ...
• Information and the Change of the Paradigm in Economics 

  Stiglitz, Joseph E. (NobelPrize.org, 2001-12-08)

  Joseph Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. He shared the prize with George Al Akelof and Michael Spence. Their research for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize focused on the interrelationship between ...
• Joseph E. Stiglitz: American economist 

  The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica (The Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020-02-05)

  A brief biography of economistm Joseph Stiglitz in the Encyclopedia Britannica. The article discusses Stiglitz's career and research. Click on the link to read the article.
• The Increasing Returns Revolution in Trade and Geography (Nobel Prize Lecture) 

  Krugman, Paul (nobelprize.org, 2008)

  Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize Lecture delivered on 8 December 2008 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. In it he discusses the ides that led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Click on the link above to ...
• Henry A. Kissinger: United States statesman 

  The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (Encylopedia Britannica, 2020-02-11)

  A biography of Henry Kissinger and description of his career whose service in various cabinet positions spanned ss many presidents. He has served as Secretary of State, national security advisor In 1973 he was awarded the ...
• Empirical Linguistics of Zellig S. Harris 

  Harris, Zellig (zelligharris.org, 2015)

  Contains source material on the work of Zellig Harris in language, information, applied mathematics, and the foundations of linguistics. Also includes ongoing research and applications in linguistics, informatics, computer ...
• The Neglected Situation 

  Goffman, Erving (American Anthropologist, 1964-12)

  "Face-to-face interaction has its own regulations; it has its own processes and its own structure, and these don't seem to be intrinsically linguistic in character, however often expressed through a linguistic medium." ...
• Erving Goffman 

  Henry, Philip M. (Institute of Dialogue Studies, 2016)

  A discussion of the life and ideas of Erving Goffman, a widely read Jewish Canadian sociologist, whose works include the well-known "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life." Click on the icon below to access the article.
• Zellig Sabbatai Harris 1909 1992: A Biographical Memoir 

  Watt, W. C. (The National Academies Press (National Acedemy of Sciences), 2005)

  A biographical memoir about the prominent Jewish American linguist, Zellig Harris. His most well known student was a fellow named Noam Chomsky. Click on the icon below to access the memoir.

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