Neil Kramer, Ph.D.

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Neil Kramer

Lecturer in History

nkramer@faculty.ncjhs.org

Education

Union College N.Y., B.A. with Honors (History) 1970

Claremont Graduate School, M.A., 1974, Ph.D., 1978 (History)

 

Biography

Neil Kramer has previously served as Dean of Faculty at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills since 2002. He was also on the faculties of Windward School, Marlborough School and Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. He is the former Southern California Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress and former Public Affairs Director in Los Angeles for the American Jewish Committee. Dr. Kramer has been a member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies faculty since 2007.

Publications

Centropa Summer Academy, 2010 (Prague, Vienna, Budapest), 2009 (Frankfurt), 2008 (Berlin); Centropa Winter Seminar 2008 (Baltimore). Pilot teacher for online lessons published by Centropa. Centropa is a Vienna and Budapest-based non-profit NGO that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Baltics, and then uses those same technologies to disseminate lessons in creative and innovative ways.
“Growing a Day School Faculty,” Jewish Education News, 28:26-29 (2007).
 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship for Teachers, “Divining America: Religion and the National Culture,” National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1993, directed by Grant Wacker, Catherine Heyrmann, and Donald Scott.
 “Modern German History.” A study-tour sponsored by the (West) German Foreign Office, 1984.