David E. Kaufman

David E. Kaufman is associate professor of American Jewish studies at the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. The author of Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History, he has written articles on American synagogue history, synagogue architecture, the history of American Jewish education, and contemporary congregational transformation. He is currently working on a study of Jewish celebrity and American popular culture during the early 1960s.