About the Author

Robert H. Abzug(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of History and American Studies, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies, and founding director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests focus on American cultural history, history of psychology and religion, and the history of the Holocaust. His major publications includeCosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination; Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps;andPassionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform."