Joshua D. Zimmerman (born 1966) holds the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at Yeshiva University.
[3] Zimmerman graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1989 with a BA in history.
[4] Contested Memories (2003), a volume Zimmerman edited, was described by the publisher as "the first attempt since the fall of Communism to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during, and after the Second World War".
Contributors included Zvi Gitelman, Nechama Tec, Israel Gutman, Henry Abramson, Samuel Kassow, Dariusz Stola, David Engel, Stanisław Krajewski, Feliks Tych, Gunnar S. Paulsson, and Michael C.
[6] Theodore R. Weeks, of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, writes in The Polish Review: "The real achievement of Zimmerman's book is to present the light and shadow in the perspective of these difficult years, to note specific facts and trends, and to avoid overly broad generalizations.