David G. Dalin

David Gil Dalin is an American historian and author. Dalin co-author of several books on Jewish history. He is currently a professor of history and political science at the Roman Catholic Ave Maria University, and was previously associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Hartford. Dalin, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is also a practicing Conservative rabbi. Dalin holds the degrees of B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Dalin received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's and doctorate from Brandeis University, and his Rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

In 2001 Joseph Bottum commissioned Dalin to write an omnibus review article on the books relating to Pope Pius XII, who was the centre of controversy in the wake of John Cornwall's book "Hitler's Pope", the Weekly Standard. Published in February 2001, it concluded that Pius XII was as a Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the Holocaust. Bottum asserted the "essay that went far beyond any claim I had been willing to make." The reviews were mixed. At a Holocaust symposium the next summer, one conservative editor, who had previously supported Bottum's approach, declared he would never read another word David Dalin wrote. Bottum asserts that in "conservative Catholic" circles where "a hunger to flee to small fellowships of the saved and away from the corruption of the public square, an embracing of a self-image as victims" it was well received. Bottum concluded that "thereby they confirm, for those whom the essay only angered, that David Dalin let himself be used as a Jew to advance a sectarian Catholic agenda".^[1]

Works

• Public Affairs and the Jewish Community: The Changing Political World of San Francisco Jews (1977) doctoral dissertation
• American Jews and the Separationist Faith. A New Debate on Religion in Public Life (1993) editor
• From Marxism to Judaism: Selected Essays of Will Herberg (1997) editor
• Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford (1997) with Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry (1999) editor with Elliott Abrams
• The Presidents of the United States and the Jews (2000) with Alfred J. Kolatch
• Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (2000) editor with Jonathan D. Sarna
• The Pius War : Responses to the Critics of Pius XII (2004) with Joseph Bottum
• The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis (2005)
• Icon of Evil Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (2008) with John F. Rothmann

External links

• Dalin article on Pope Pius XII
• Pius XII and the Jews

References

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