Background
Ralph Melnick was born on September 14, 1946 in New York City, into the family of Lester and Evelyn Melnick.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
After finishing his studying at New York University, Melnick left for Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Science in Liberal Studies in 1970, a Master of Arts in 1974, a Master of Philosophy in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
After finishing his studying at New York University, Melnick left for Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Science in Liberal Studies in 1970, a Master of Arts in 1974, a Master of Philosophy in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977.
New York, NY 10003, USA
Ralph Melnick started his higher education at New York University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1968.
(As one of the first American journalists to enter the new...)
As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tell the tale, he helped to arrange for its American publication and secured from Anne's father the right to adapt it for the theater.
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1997
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Angelina Jaramillo, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prominent New Mexico family, was raped, bludgeoned, and stabbed to death in her bedroom on November 16, 1931. Thomas Johnson, an African American laborer with a prison record in four states was convicted of the crime and executed. Now more than seventy years later this meticulously researched account of the case substantiates a longstanding rumor that the wrong man was put to death.
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2002
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In the winter of 1892 the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, introduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of Basket Ball. An immediate if unexpected success, the game spread to other women's schools across the country, and soon its founder, Senda Berenson (1868–1954), was called upon to codify its distinctive set of gender-specific rules. Emphasizing team passing and position over individual play, the version she instituted defined women's basketball for seventy years and eventually earned her the honor of being the first female elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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2007
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An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism.
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2018
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Ralph Melnick was born on September 14, 1946 in New York City, into the family of Lester and Evelyn Melnick.
Ralph Melnick started his higher education at New York University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1968. After finishing his studying at New York University, Melnick left for Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Science in Liberal Studies in 1970, a Master of Arts in 1974, a Master of Philosophy in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977.
Ralph Melnick started his academic career as a caseworker in New York City Department of Social Services in 1970 and took that position for one year. In 1971 he was appointed a supervisor and counselor of drug rehabilitation program in Atlantic Counseling Center. During 1971 - 1972 he also worked as an archivist and librarian in American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham.
Melnick continued connecting his work with libraries from 1975 to 2003 and worked as an archivist and librarian in Zionist Archives and Library for three years, then as a head of special collections at library and associate professor of religion and history at the College of Charleston for about eight years, also an archivist and librarian in American Jewish Historical Society and finally as a library director and teacher of religion at Williston Northampton School in Easthampton.
Dr. Melnick specializes in the post-Medieval Jewish experience with particular interest in European and American Jewry, the Jewish-Christian relationship, Jewish intellectual and cultural history of all periods, as well as African-American history and the Jewish/African-American social and cultural encounter. His published articles have appeared in the following journals: American Jewish Archives, Athenaeum Columns, Civil War History, Factotum, Georgia Archive, Journal of Religion, Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman Period, Library Journal, Library Scene, and South Carolina Historical Magazine.
(An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during ...)
2018(In the winter of 1892 the new instructor of physical trai...)
2007(As one of the first American journalists to enter the new...)
1997(Angelina Jaramillo, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a p...)
2002Ralph Melnick described his political views as “independent and often outraged.”
Quotations:
"I write primarily as a way of responding to what bothers me in the society around me, with the hope that some small bit of change may ultimately result from my efforts. The Lewisohn biography addressed issues of ethnic identity, regressive politics, and the life of the artist in America. The story of Meyer Levin's struggle to have his adaptation of Anne Frank's diary produced on the stage dealt with the suppression of free expression and the misuse of the Holocaust for ideological promotion. Thomas Johnson's legal lynching in Santa Fe is a sad tale of racism and the evils of capital punishment. My interest in Senda Berenson has grown out of her Jewish origins and her critique of athletics as outsized in America, which she noticed a century ago."
"The study of Raina Simons is an attempt to recapture a time when the passion for social and economic change was not yet dampened by the harsh recognition of ulterior motives by leaders on all sides. The examination of Anne Frank's spiritual development is an effort to restore to her the depth of perception that other, more shallow treatments have left behind."
"I write because it lends excitement, meaning, and deeply felt joy to my life."
Ralph Melnick has been married to the teacher of English as a second language Rachel Shana Levy since June 1, 1969 and they have two children - Joshua Jacob and Ross David.