Noah Gelfand

Noah L. Gelfand is a doctoral lecturer at Hunter College, where he teaches the first half of the US history survey, as well as courses on Colonial America, the American Revolution, and American Indian history. He earned a BA in History from the University of Connecticut, an MA in US History from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in Atlantic History and US History to 1877 from New York University in 2008.

Noah has received numerous awards, including a Quinn Foundation fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and a Touro National Heritage Trust fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library. He has published several articles and book chapters, including “Jacob Leisler: A Life and Death in the Atlantic World, 1640-1691,” in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, and “To Live and Trade: The Status of Sephardi Mercantile Communities in the Atlantic Word During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Caribbean Jewry. His current book project explores the intersection of religion and commerce in the Jewish Atlantic world during the early modern era.

• New York University (PhD)

• “The Gomez Family and Atlantic Patterns in the Development of New York’s Jewish Community,” in Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History (July 2020).
•  “Opportunities and Insults: Understanding the Minimal Jewish Presence in New Netherland,” in de Halve Maen: Magazine of the Dutch Colonial Period in America XCI (Winter 2019).
• “Religious Diversity in New Amsterdam,” in Life in New Amsterdam Educator Resource Guide (The Museum of the City of New York, 2015).
• “To Live and Trade: The Status of Sephardi Mercantile Communities in the Atlantic Word During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Caribbean Jewry, edited by Jane S. Gerber London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013).
• “Jacob Leisler: A Life and Death in the Atlantic World, 1640-1691,” in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, edited by Karen Racine and Beatriz Galloti Mamigonian (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).