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Annelise Orleck

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Annelise Orleck
Born (1959-01-22) January 22, 1959 (age 65)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education
Occupation(s)Historian, University Teacher, Sociologist
Notable work
  • Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
  • Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
  • Rethinking American Women's Activism

Annelise Orleck (born January 22, 1959) is an American historian and professor at Dartmouth College. Her work primarily focuses on the working class and Jewish-American experience, with notable publications including Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 and Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. In 2024, she was involved in pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, leading to her arrest and temporary ban from Dartmouth College.

Life and career

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Annelise Orleck was born on January 22, 1959 in Brooklyn, the daughter of Norman and Thelma Orelick. She earned a BA from Evergreen State College in 1979 and a PhD from New York University in 1989.[1] She has taught at Dartmouth College since 1990, where she has chaired both the women's and gender studies department and the Jewish studies department.[2]

Much of her work has focused on the working class and Jewish-American experience. Her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, focuses on four Jewish-American women activists, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman. Her book Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty examined how African-American women on public assistance fought for their rights and against negative stereotypes.[1]

During the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, riot police arrested 90 people at Dartmouth College, including Orleck. Orleck was assaulted by police, dragged to the ground, and arrested.[3][4][5] Orleck was banned from Dartmouth as a condition of bail, but Dartmouth later announced that it would not enforce the ban.[6] Later that week, her bail conditions were "corrected" to temporarily banning her from only specific sites on campus instead of the entire campus.[7]

Bibliography

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  • Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1995.[1]
  • (Editor, with Alexis Jetter and Diana Taylor) The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (essays), University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1997.[1]
  • The Soviet Jewish Americans, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1999, reprinted, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 2001.[1]
  • Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 2005.[1]
  • (Editor, with L.G. Hazirjian) The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980, 2011[8]
  • Rethinking American Women's Activism, 2015.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Annelise Orleck." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2007. Gale In Context: Biography.
  2. ^ Zeranski, Lauren (2005). "PROFILE: Annelise Orleck". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  3. ^ "Campus encampments live updates: Protests yield mass arrests". The Dartmouth. May 1, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  4. ^ Ketschke, Ross (2024-05-02). "Dozens of people arrested at pro-Palestine protest at Dartmouth College". WMUR-TV. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  5. ^ Lapin, Andrew (2024-05-02). "Former Dartmouth Jewish studies chair thrown to the ground by police as 90 protesters are arrested". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  6. ^ "College clarifies stance on professor Annelise Orleck's arrest". The Dartmouth. May 2, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  7. ^ "Conditions of Annelise Orleck's bail 'corrected'". Conditions of Annelise Orleck’s bail ‘corrected’ - The Dartmouth. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  8. ^ a b "Annelise Orleck." The Writers Directory, St. James Press, 2018. Gale In Context: Biography.
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