Barry Trachtenberg is an American historian and professor, currently holding the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University.
[5] His parents were a salesman and a receptionist, and he was educated in the local public school system.
[7] After lecturing at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2003, he obtained an assistant professorship there in 2004, and was promoted to associate professor in 2010.
He is a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.
[11] Trachtenberg has authored several academic books including The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (2008),[12][13] The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (2018),[14][15] and The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (2022),[16] contributing to the academic discourse on Jewish history.