Jacob Morrow-Spitzer

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate studying nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish history. His research interests include the intersections of Jewish life, politics, citizenship, and race/racism. His dissertation, “State Matters: American Jewish Politics in the Age of Citizenship, 1876-1924,” studies the debates and political mobilizations among Jews to create a lasting and stable citizenship in the critical decades of American state building between Reconstruction and the end of mass migration from Europe. In 2022 he published an article in American Jewish History entitled “The ‘Theoretical Jew’ Versus the ‘Southern Jew’: Black Perceptions of Jewish Whiteness in the Nineteenth-Century American South.” His work has also appeared in Southern Jewish History and Haaretz. His most recent projects have been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Jewish Archives. At Yale, he also facilitates the Modern Jewish History Colloquium and is a Graduate Writing Fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.