Jeffrey Blutinger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, Co-Director of Jewish Studies California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 562 985-2196 | Fax: 562 985-5431 Jeffrey.Blutinger@csulb.edu | Office: FO2-210

Research Interests

Modern Jewish History
Jewish Historiography
Zionism and Jewish Nationalism
Holocaust Memorialization

Education

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984 (English Literature)
J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1988
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1997 (History)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 (History)

Selected Publications

“‘So-Called Orthodoxy’: the History of an Unwanted Label,” Modern Judaism (July 2007).

“Bearing Witness: Teaching the Holocaust from a Victim-Centered Perspective,” The History Teacher, (forthcoming).

Book Review, “Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur,” in Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Summer 2006).

Book Review, “Auschwitz: A New History” in The History Teacher, Vol. 39, No. 4 (August 2006), 552-553.