Lowenstein, Steven

Steven Lowenstein, scholar, teacher, and a writer was born in New York in 1945 into a family of German–Jewish refugees.

He received his master’s degree from Princeton University in 1969 and went on earning a doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1972.

He taught at a number of universities, including Columbia University and Monmouth College, and worked as a researcher and an assistant archivist at YIVO and Leo Baeck Institute.

In the late 1970s Dr. Lowenstein moved to California, teaching Jewish history at the American Jewish University.

Beginning in the late 1970s Steven Lowenstein served as Isadore Levine Professor of Jewish History at the, American Jewish University.

He is the author of a large number of scholarly works, including The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions ; The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 ; and Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, Its structure and Culture .