DAVID C. ITZKOWITZ

           

1922 Sargent Avenue                                                             Department of History

St. Paul, MN  55105                                                               Macalester College

651.699.1014 (Home)                                                             St. Paul, MN 55105

e-mail: itzkowitz@macalester.edu                                          651.696.6216 (Office)

                                                                        651.696.6498 (Fax)

 

           

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph. D.    Columbia University, 1972, History

M. A.     Columbia University, 1966, History                        

B. A.      Amherst College, 1965, History

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

            Professor of History, 1989-present

            Associate Professor of History, 1981-1989

            Assistant Professor of History, 1974-1981

           

Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY

            Assistant Professor of History, 1972-1974

 

New York City Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

            Lecturer in History, 1966-1967

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Book

 

Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885, The Harvester Press,                     Hassocks, Sussex, England, 1977

 

Articles

 

“Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in                 Victorian England,” (revised version) in Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt, eds.,

Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture, Indiana University

Press, forthcoming

 

PUBLICATIONS (continued):

 

Articles (continued)

 

“Myth and Ideal,”  selections from Peculiar Privilege, in Alan Tomlinson, ed., The Sports

 StudiesReader,  Routledge, 2007

 

“Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in                             Victorian England,” Victorian Studies, Autumn 2002

 

"The Jews of Europe and the Limits of Religious Freedom," in Richard Helmstadter, ed., Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, Stanford University Press, 1997

 

"The (Other) Great Evil: Gambling, Scandal, and the National Anti-Gambling League," in K. 

Garrigan, ed., Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class, Ohio               University Press, 1992

 

"Cultural Pluralism and the Board of Deputies of British Jews," in R. W. Davis and R.                   Helmstadter eds., Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R.         K.Webb, Routledge, 1992

 

"Victorian Bookmakers and their Customers," Victorian Studies, Autumn 1988

 

"Gambling," and "Royal Family," in Sally Mitchell, ed., Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia,           Garland Publishing, 1988

 

Reviews

 

"Gin Lane," Reviews in European History, March 1977

           

Book Reviews in Albion, A Journal Concerned with British Studies

 

Israel Finestein, Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry, 1800-2000, Spring, 2004

 

Daniel Pick, Svengali’s Web, Summer, 2001

 

William D. Rubinstein and Hilary L. Rubinstein, Philosemitism, Fall, 2000

 

Jessica Gerard, Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815-1914, Fall, 1997

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (continued):

 

Reviews (continued)

 

Book reviews in American Historical Review  

 

Norman Gash, Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society, February, 1995

Wray Vamplew, Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain 1875-1914,           April, 1991

 

Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian               Age, June 1989

 

E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, February 1979

 

Robert W. Malcolmson, Popular Recreations in English Society, October 1974

 

            J.C. Reid, Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England, February 1973              

 

Book Reviews in The Historian

 

            Peter Stansky, Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, Summer 2005

 

Stanley Weintraub, Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story, Deccember, 2004

           

Book Reviews in Shofar, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

 

            David Cesarani, The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991, Spring 1995

 

            Gerry Black, Lender to the Lords, Giver to the Poor, Spring 1995

 

Journalistic publications

 

“Town vs. Country.  Red Coats vs. Foxes,” Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2004

 

“The Double Journey of a Jewish-American Academic,” Macalester International, Autumn

            2000

 

"Aspects of History: The Civil War," Current, London, 1983


 

 

PUBLICATIONS (continued):

 

Journalistic publications (continued)

 

"Meet the Reagans," Current, London, 1982

 

"Guide to American Politics," Current, London, 1982

 

"The Football Bowls" (with Vicki Itzkowitz), Campus Magazine, London, 1980

 

"Different Regions/ Different Ways of Living" (with Vicki Itzkowitz), Campus Magazine,                       London, 1977

 

"Who Are Your Heroes?" (with Vicki Itzkowitz), Campus Magazine, London, 1977

 

"What is right with America? What is wrong with America?"  (with Vicki Itzkowitz),                     

            Campus Magazine, London, 1977

 

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

 

“The Idea of Jewish History,” Lecture at Beth Jacob Congregation, May 2007

 

“Speculate to Win,” Presentation at the Macalester College Alumni Gathering, Mt. Vernon,

            Washington, July 2007

 

“Hollywood and the Holocaust,” Presentation at the Minnesota Historical Society, September

2006

 

“The Historical Roots of the State of Israel,” Lecture at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church,

            November, 2002

 

“Jews Confront the World and Themselves: The Age of Emancipation,” Lecture in the Annual History Lecture Series, Beth Jacob Congregation, February, 2002

 

"The Jews of Western Europe and the Definition of Religious Freedom," presented at                     planning session for volume in the Making of Modern Freedom series, Washington              University, October, 1994

 

"Freedom of Religion and the Jews of Western Europe in the Nineteenth Century," Center                       for the History of Freedom, Washington University, April 1993

 

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: (continued)

 

 

"The Anti-Gambling League and Late Victorian Reform," Institute of Historical Research,                        University of London, January, 1990

 

"Marriage in the Romantic Era," Address to the Women's Issues Study Group, House of 

            Hope Presbyterian Church, April 1988   

 

"Twenty Years of a United Jerusalem," Panel presentation, Beth Jacob Congregation, July                        1987         

 

"Victorian Bookmakers and their Customers," Northeast Victorian Studies Association, May                    1987

 

"Scandal, Gambling, and the National Anti-Gambling League," Midwest Victorian Studies                           Association, April l987

 

"Victorian Horserace Gambling," Indiana University Victorian Studies Group, April 1985

 

"The English State Lottery," Institute of Historical Research, University of London, February                   1982

 

"A Speculative Essay on Gambling," Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University                      of London, July 1979

"The Bicentennial: A View from the Enemy Camp," Address to the St. Paul Informal Club,            

            November 1976

 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

 

The Cheapest of Luxuries: A Social History of Gambling in England, book MS in preparation                                            

 

Social History of Victorian Anglo-Jewry.  Research in progress

 

 

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Seminar on Jewish Studies. Member, Planning

             Committee and local host, 1995

 

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for College Teachers Program.                     Member, European History Selection Panel

 

Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Executive Committee

 

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: (continued)

 

Referee for MSS submitted to Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press and

                several journals

 

Outside personnel reviewer for Bowdoin College and Hamline University

 

St. Paul Institute of Adult Jewish Studies, Planning Committee, 1974-1978

 

Consultant to Scholastic Book Services, New York, NY, for a proposed community college                      textbook series, 1973

 

 

MACALESTER COLLEGE SERVICE:

 

Presiding Officer of the Faculty, 1993-1994

 

Department of History, Chair, 1993-1996

 

Educational Policy and Governance Committee, 2002-2005; Chair, 2002-2003

 

Curriculum Committee, 1976-1978, 1994-1996, 1998-2000; Chair, 1977-1978, 1994-1995,                  

            1998-1999

           

Faculty Advisory Council, 1979-1981; Chair, 1980-1981

 

Faculty Personnel Committee, 1984-1985, 1990-1992; Chair, 1990-1991

 

Faculty Allocation Committee, 1994-1995

 

Grants Committee, 2002-2003

 

Academic Liaison Committee, 2002-2003

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

 

Beth Jacob Congregation, Board of Directors, 1989-1990, Vice President, 1990-1994

 

University of Minnesota Hillel Foundation, Board of Directors, 1996-1998

 

St Paul United Jewish Fund and Council, Subcommittee on Jewish Affiliation and Continuity,                 1993-1998

 

St. Paul United Jewish Fund and Council, Community Relations Sub-Committee, 1988

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE:  (continued)

 

Cub Scout Pack 13, Committee Chair, 1987-1988

 

Shaare Shalom Congregation, President, 1980-1981, 1988-1989

 

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

 

Macalester College. Wallace Research Grant, 2001

 

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. Research Grant, 1989-1990

 

National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1981-1982

 

National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar, "English Culture in the                      

             Eighteenth Century," University of California, Berkeley, Summer, 1978