Jerome Chanes has taught American Jewish sociology, Jewish public policy issues, and biblical Hebrew at Barnard College, Stern College, Harvard University, Brandeis and Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor most recently of
A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (1998), and is the author of
A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages (2000) and of the widely-used monograph
A Primer on the American Jewish Community (1999), as well as an author and editor of the second edition of the
Encyclopedia Judaica.