Gerald Sorin is a Distinguished Professor of American and Jewish Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He has written eight books, including Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America (1997); Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (2002), Winner, National Jewish Book Award (2003); and Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane (2012), Winner, National Jewish Book Award (2013). He also served as the Fulbright Association’s John Adams Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the Royal University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1998.