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Gary P. Zola
Dr. Zola is the Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience. He was ordained at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati and served for many years as National Dean of Admissions, Student Affairs, and Alumni Relations. His area of expertise is American Jewish history.
Education
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (1982)
- Ph.D., HUC-JIR (1991)
Lecture Titles
- The Beginnings of Reform Judaism in America
- Reform Judaism in America: Are there limits?
- Isaac Mayer Wise and His College
- The Great Voice of Reform Judaism: The Recorded Sermons of Stephen Samuel Wise
- "Like Grapes in the Wilderness": Modern Hebrew Literature in America
- The Jew in American History
In the News
Publications
- Books and Study Guides
- American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader, edited, with notes and
introduction by Gary P. Zola and Marc Dollinger (University Press of
New England, forthcoming)
- A Place of Our Own: The Beginnings of Reform Jewish Camping in America edited, with an introduction by
Gary P. Zola and Michael M. Lorge (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 2006).
- Three Hundred Fifty Years: An Album of American Jewish Memory selected, written, and compiled by Michael
Feldberg, Karla Goldman, Scott-Martin Kosofsky, Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Gary P. Zola (New York:
American Jewish Historical Society and the American Jewish Archives , 2005)
- The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus's Essays on American Jewry, edited, with
introduction and notes by Gary P. Zola (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004).
- Women Rabbis: Exploration and Celebration edited by Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati, HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alumni
Association Press, 1996).
- Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion -- A Centennial History,1875-1975 by Michael A. Meyer and
edited by Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press: 1992).
- To Learn and To Teach: Your Future as a Rabbi by Alfred Gottschalk and revised by Gary P. Zola (New York,
Richards Rosen Press: 1988).
- Isaac Harby of Charleston: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press,
1994).
- Articles
- "The Ascendancy of Reform Judaism in the American South During the Nineteenth Century" in A New History of the
Southern Jewish Experience edited by Marcie C. Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press).
- "The 2003 Concurrent Resolution of Congress to Commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the American Jewish Community "
in American Jewish History: Volume 91, Numbers 3 & 4, September and December 2003 (The Johns Hopkins University
Press)
- "Historical Reflections on 350 years of American Jewish History" in CCAR Journal: , Fall 2004
- "Foreword" in From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish life in America edited by Michael Grunberger (New York:
George Braziller in association with the Library of Congress, 2004).
- "N.A.T.E.'s Place in the History of Jewish Education in America: An Afterword" in Vision and the Will: A History of
the National Association of Temple Educators, 1954-2004 by Alan D. Bennett (New York: Union for Reform Judaism, 2004).
- "Jewish Camping and its Relationship to the Organized Camping Movement in America" in The Beginnings of Reform
Jewish Camping in America: Essays Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc,
Wisconsin, edited, with an introduction by Gary P. Zola and Michael M. Lorge (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of
Alabama, 2006).
- "A Brief History of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, UAHC" in The Beginnings of Reform Jewish Camping in America:
Essays Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, edited, with
an introduction by Gary P. Zola and Michael M. Lorge (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama, 2006).
- "Southern Rabbis and the Founding of the First National Association of Rabbis" [reprint] in Mark Bauman (ed) Southern
Jewish History: An Anthology (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press).
- "The First Reform Prayer Book in America: The Liturgy of the Reformed Society of Israelites" in Dana Evan Kaplan
(ed.) Platforms and Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism (New York:
Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2002) pp. 99-118.
- "The Common Places of American Reform Judaism's Conflicting Platforms" in Hebrew Union College Annual,
Volume 72 (2001): pp 155-191.
- "The Man Behind the Name: Stephen S. Wise" in Stephen S. Wise Temple Bulletin (October 2001) pp 6-7.
- "An Account of the Jews and Judaism 34 Years Ago in New York (Circa 1870)" by Zvi Hirsch Bernstein (annotated and
translated from the Hebrew by Gary P. Zola) in The American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol. L, 1998, No. 1 and 2,
pp 110-130.
- "Why Study Southern Jewish History" in Southern Jewish History (Vol. 1, No. 1 1998) pp. 1-21.
- "The Rabbinate" in Contemporary American Religion, edited by Wade Clark Roof (New York: Macmillan Reference
USA, 1999).
- "What Price Amos?: Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum's Career in Jackson, Mississippi" in Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin
(eds.) The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights (Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University of Alabama
Press: 1997), pp. 230-257
- "Southern Rabbis and the Emergence of a National Association of Rabbis" in American Jewish History December
1997 (Vol. LXXXV, No. 4), pp. 353-372.
- "Funding Rabbinic Education: Retrospect and Prospect" in CCAR Journal Winter, 1997 (Vol. XLIV, No. 1), pp.
9-24.
- "Reform Judaism Magazine" in Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, edited by Mark
Flacker (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1995).
- "Isaac Harby" in Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Reform Judaism, edited by Marc
Lee Raphael, Lance Sussman and Kerry Olitzky (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1993).
- "Maximillian Heller" in Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Reform Judaism, edited
by Marc Lee Raphael, Lance Sussman and Kerry Olitzky (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1993).
- "Gustavus Poznanski" in Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Reform Judaism, edited
by Marc Lee Raphael, Lance Sussman and Kerry Olitzky (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1993).
- "NFTY After Fifty Years: A Symposium" in Journal of Reform Judaism Fall, 1989 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 4),
pp. 1-3. "Jews" in Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America, edited by John Mack Faragher
(New York: Sachem Publishing Associates, 1990):216-217.
- "The American Rabbinate, 1960-1986: A Bibliographic Essay," (Cincinnati, American Jewish Archives: 1988).
- "Louis Kraft" in Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America, edited by Walter I. Trattner
(Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1986).
- "Louis H. Levin" in Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America, edited by Walter I. Trattner
(Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press: 1986).
- "A History of the Communitarian Settlement Known as 'New Odessa'" (a translation of Herman Rosenthal's Hebrew
essay with introduction by Zola) in The American Jewish Farmer (Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives: 1986).
- "You Are in Canada Now: Zvi Hirsch Masliansky on Montreal Jews - 1898" in Canadian Jewish Historical Society,
Spring 1985 (Vol. 9, No. 1), pp 31-40.
- "HUC, JTS and Women Rabbis" in Journal of Reform Judaism, Fall 1984 (Vol. XXXI, No. 4), pp. 39-45.
- "Reform Judaism's Pioneer Zionist: Maximillian Heller" in American Jewish History, June 1984 (Vol. LXXIII, No.
4) pp. 398-421.
- "My People Jacob: Thy Tents have Grown Old: A Manual for Organizing Weekend Kallot for Older Adults," (New York,
U.A.H.C.: 1981)."The High School Community Period" (with Kerry M. Olitzky) in The Jewish Principal's Handbook,
edited by Audrey Friedman Marcus and Raymond A. Zwerin (Denver, Colorado, Alternatives in Religious Education:
1983), pp. 327-336.
- Encyclopedia Articles
- "American Jewish Archives" in Encyclopaedia Judaica (revised edition) edited by Michael Berenbaum (forthcoming).
- "Gustavus Poznanski in Encyclopaedia Judaica (revised edition) edited by Michael Berenbaum (forthcoming).
- "Bertram W. Korn" in Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, edited by Stephen H. Norwood ad Eunice
Pollack (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio), forthcoming.
- "Jacob Rader Marcus" in Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, edited by Stephen H. Norwood ad Eunice
Pollack (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio), forthcoming.
- "Isaac Harby" in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press), forthcoming.
- "Isaac Harby" in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, edited by Walter Edgar (Columbia, SC: Institute for
Southern Studies).
- "Penina Moïse" in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, edited by Thomas M. Downey (Columbia, SC: Institute
for Southern Studies).
- "Julius Eckstein" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "Solomon B. Freehof" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "James K. Gutheim" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "Isaac Harby" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "Edgar F. Magnin" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "David Neumark" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "Benjamin Szold" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- "Jacob Voorsanger" in American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
- Edited Journals
- The American Jewish Archives Journal
- Volume 49 1997 (1999), with Editor's Introduction
- Volume 50 1998 (2000), with Editor's Introduction
- Volume 51 1999 (2001), with Editor's Introduction
- Volume 52 2000 (2001), with Editor's Introduction
- Volume 53 2001 (2002), with Editor's Introduction
- Volume 54 2002 (2003), with Editor's Introduction
- Book Reviews
- Review: A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by David S. Wyman and
Rafael Medoff (New Press: New York, 2004) in Jewish Culture and History (forthcoming).
- Review: Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights by Clive Webb (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2001) in The North Carolina Historical Review (October 2001).
- Review: Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner,
1860-1929 by Bobbie Malone in AJS Review (Vol. XXIV, No. 1, 1999).
- Review: Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820-1914 by Avraham
Barkai in The International History Review (Vol. XX2: June 1998).
- Review: The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora by Robert P. Swierenga in
Journal of the Early Republic Summer, 1995 (Vol. 15, No. 2), pp. 305-307.
- Review: This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston by James William Hagy in
American Jewish Archives Fall/Winter, 1994 (Vol XLVII, No. 2), pp. 357-362.
- Review: Guts and Ruts: The Jewish Pioneer on the Trail in the American Southwest by Floyd S. Fierman in
The Western Historical Quarterly (April 1987).
- Review: Jerry Falwell and the Jews by Merrill Simon in Religious Studies Review (Vol. II,
No. 3/July 1985).
- Contemporary Religious Concerns
- "A Rose Among the Thorns"; A Tiny Wellspring, A Thundering River"; and "Written on the Heart" in For Praying Out
Loud: Interfaith Prayers for Public Occasions, edited by L. Annie Foerster, (Skinner House Books, 2003) pp. 78-800,
101-103, 134, 135.
- "Lessons from 180 Years of American Reform Judaism" in Torah at the Center (UAHC, 2003) pp. 7-9.
- "Are Jews the Chosen People?" Allan L. Smith (ed.), Where We Stand: Jewish Consciousness on Campus
(New York: UAHC Press, 1997), pp. 60-65.
- "On Being A Blessing" in The Orchard: A Compendium of Sermonic and Other Material Fall 1997, pp. 9-10.
- "Becoming A Rabbi: A Wonderful Occupation" in Shofar, November 1989 (Vol. 7, No. 2), pp. 24-25.
- "Who Will Lead Us Tomorrow?" in Reform Judaism, Fall 1988 (Vol. 17, No. 1), pp. 4-6.
- "Becoming a Rabbi" in Keeping Posted (Vol. XXXIII, No. 6), pp. 14-15.
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