Research Fields
- 19th Century American History
- History of American Communication
- Communications in the American Civil War
- American Rabbinics
- Jewish Orthodox Culture in America
- Jewish Diasporic Communication
- Communication in the Bible
- Historical Pragmatics
- Digital Humanities
- Communication Theory
- New Media and Social Change
- New Media and Religion
- Health Communication
About
Menahem Blondheim is a member of the departments of History and of Communication& Journalism, and serves as the academic director of undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rothberg International School. Trained at the Hebrew University (BA) and Harvard University (MA and PhD), Prof. Blondheim studies the role communication plays in American and Jewish history, as well as the history and theory of communications and media technologies.
Selected Publications
1. News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844- 1897. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. (305 pp.)
2. “Divine Comedy: The Jewish Orthodox Sermon in the United States." In: Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: New York University Press, 1998, pp. 191-214.
3. Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood’s Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2006. (xi, 291 pp.)
4. “America’s Global Standing According to Popular News Sites from Around the World,”
Political Communication 30: 1 (2013): 139-161 (with Elad Segev).
5. Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: Two Thousand years of Saying Goodbye without
Leaving. New York: Israel Academic Press, 2020 (edited with Hananel Rosenberg).
Selected Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities
Covert Award (AEJMC)
Donald L. Shaw Lifetime Award for Outstanding Service to Journalism History
Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History
Excellence in Teaching Distinction, Hebrew University (awarded the prize numerous times)