The Leo Frank Case

Leonard Dinnerstein was born in the Bronx, New York on May 5, 1934. He received a bachelor's degree in history in 1955 from City College of New York and a master's degree and doctorate in American history from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation, The Leo Frank Case, was published in 1968 and has never been out of print. He taught at the New York Institute of Technology and at Fairleigh Dickinson University before moving to the University of Arizona in Tucson. He was a professor of history there from 1970 through 2004 and director of Judaic Studies from 1993 through 2000.

He wrote several books including Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation written with David M. Reimers; Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of Modern America written with Roger L. Nichols and David M. Reimers, America and the Survivors of the Holocaust; and Anti-Semitism in America. He died from complications of kidney failure on January 22, 2019 at the age of 84.

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