David E. Kaufman is an American Jewish historian trained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (MA, 1986) and Brandeis University (PhD, 1993). As an academic he has served on the faculties of the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, CA, and Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, and has authored two books, Shul with a Pool (1999) and Jewhooing the Sixties (2012). He is currently working independently as a public historian focused on the New York Jewish experience.