Scott D. Selig­man is an award-win­ning his­to­ri­an and biog­ra­ph­er inter­est­ed in the his­to­ry of hyphen­at­ed Amer­i­cans. He holds an under­grad­u­ate degree in his­to­ry from Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty and a mas­ter’s degree from Har­vard. Most of his works have con­cerned ear­ly Chi­nese-Amer­i­can immi­grants. This is his first work on Jew­ish-Amer­i­cans. He thinks his great-grand­moth­er may have par­tic­i­pat­ed in the 1902 meat strike.