Background

Ellen M. Eisenberg was born on April 20, 1962 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Meyer and Carolyn (maiden name: Schoen) Eisenberg.

Education

Ellen graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1985. Thereafter she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990.

Career

Eisenberg worked as a research assistant with Persistent Poverty Project at the Social Science Research Council in 1988-1989. From 1990 until 1995 she worked at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon as an assistant professor, since 1995 as an associate professor of history. Between 1995 and 1996 she was a Holocaust educator at Oregon Women’s Penitentiary. She has been a contributor to periodicals, including American Jewish Archives, Communal Societies, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Rural Roots.

Achievements

• Ellen is known for her work "Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey". She also researches on Jewish immigration to the United States and Argentina and on Jews in Oregon.

Works

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  • Jewish Life in the American West
  • Jews of the Pacific Coast (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
  • Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Utopianism and Communitarianism)
  • The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII
  • California Jews (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
  • The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950-2010
  • Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950

Religion

Ellen M. Eisenberg is a supporter of Judaism.

Membership

Ellen has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Ellen married Ami Korsunsky on September 14, 1985. The couple has 2 children: Alexander Samuel, Benjamin Ze’ev.

Father:

Meyer Eisenberg

Mother:

Carolyn Eisenberg

Spouse:

Ami Korsunsky

child:

Alexander Samuel

child:

Benjamin Ze’ev