Jarrod Tanny

Jarrod Tanny is a Canadian-American professor of history and Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.[1][2] After completing his education through a master's degree in Canada, he came to the United States (US) for a PhD in history at the University of California at Berkeley. He has made his academic career in the US.

Tanny also publishes under the pseudonym A Yid In Dixieland, and maintains an account on Twitter[3] as well as other social media profiles[4] under this name.

Biography

Tanny grew up in Montreal, Canada, and graduated from McGill University. He earned a master's degree in Russian and East European studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008.[5]

Career

Tanny, then a professor of history at Ohio University, was hired in 2010 as the inaugural Block Scholar, a professorship named in honour of the parents of former State Senator Frank Block (American politician).[6] His scholarly interests include Jewish humour and Russian Jewish history.[7][5]

Tanny's 2011 book, City of Rogues and Schnorrers, explores Jewish life in 19th-century Odessa, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), a free port and boomtown with a reputation for attracting "gangsters and swindlers..." along with ambitious men and women, some of whom attained great wealth.[8]

The Slavic and East European Journal, described City of Rogues and Schnorrers as, "serious and funny, informative and amusing, witty and well written."[9] Reviewer Anna Shternshis cited Tanny's unusual ability to draw on both Russian and Yiddish sources, which she considers to be an important contribution in a field where scholarship has often been confined to a single language.[10]

Publications
  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa. (Indiana University Press, 2011)[8][10][11]
  • "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina" (Forward, March 22, 2015).[12] Also published under the pseudonym Yid In Dixieland as "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South" (Shtetl Montreal, 2011).[13]
  • How To Boycott Israel For Dummies - New Campus Apartheid Edition. (Self-published)[14]
  • Jewish + Woke = Joke. (Self-published)[15]
  • The Gospel of Sarsour. (Self-published)[16]

References
  1. Tanny, Jarrod; 2015. "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina". The Forward. Retrieved 2020-08-08.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. Yid In Dixieland. "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South". shtetlmontreal.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  3. "https://twitter.com/ayidindixieland". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-08-07. External link in |title= (help)
  4. "A Yid In Dixieland". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  5. Steelman, Ben (24 August 2010). "UNCW professor focuses on Jewish culture". Star-News.
  6. GreeneAmanda.Greene@StarNewsOnline.com, Amanda. "UNCW hires Jewish scholar". Wilmington Star News. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  7. Greene, Amanda (29 March 2010). "UNCW hires Jewish scholar". McClatchy.
  8. "City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa (brief review)". Shofar. 31 (1): 211. Fall 2010.
  9. Katz, Michael R. The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 56, no. 4, 2012, pp. 645–646. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24392629.
  10. Anna Shternshis, Slavic Review, vol. 72, no. 4, 2013, pp. 913–914. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.72.4.0913.
  11. Meir, Natan M. The Russian Review, vol. 72, no. 4, 2013, pp. 697–698., www.jstor.org/stable/43661946.
  12. Tanny, Jarrod; 2015. "I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina". The Forward. Retrieved 2020-08-08.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. Yid In Dixieland. "Bible Belt Blues: Tales of a Professional Canadian Jew in the American Deep South". shtetlmontreal.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  14. "How To Boycott Israel For Dummies - New Campus Apartheid Edition | Zionism | Mandatory Palestine". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  15. "There once was a Jew called Woke Who was really a bit of a joke He joined JVP To set Muslims free And ended up serving The Volk". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  16. "The Gospel of Sarsour | Palestine (Region) | Palestinians". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
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