Matthew Friedman is a writer and photographer, the founding editor of The Typescript, and the author of three books. He is a historian of modernism and of Diaspora Jewish life, and teaches History at Rutgers University, Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology. In the past, he has also taught journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, where he developed the department’s first New Media Journalism curriculum, and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dominican University. Friedman has worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Montreal Gazette, The National Post, Wired News, InternetWeek, and other publications, and is an experienced and well-known media commentator. He is currently at work on a study of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora since 1948.
