Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel and former Professor of History, Touro College, New York

His numerous publications include The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust (1983); The Emergence of Zionist Thought (1986); The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty (1994); Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945 (2002); and Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land (2010). The Jews Were Expendable received the B'nai B'rith A.D.L. Merit for Educational Distinction and, together with The Emergence of Zionist Thought, garnered the second Samuel Belkin Memorial Literary Award from Yeshiva University. Professor Penkower has been a consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the History Channel, the Destiny Foundation, and the National Jewish Book Council. He has received grants from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Littauer Foundation, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Hoover and Truman presidential libraries, the American Philosophical Society, the NEH, and the American Council of Learned Societies.