Jonathan Karp

Jonathan Karp is an associate professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University (SUNY). From 2010–2013, he served as executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848, and has coedited five volumes on a wide array of topics, including The Cambridge History of Judaism in the Early Modern World and World War I and the Jews. His forthcoming book looks at how Blacks and Jews together transformed American popular music.