A Seaport at War With Itself – Steven H Jaffe

On April 23, 2017, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Steven Jaffe, a writer and historian specializing in the history of New York City. Jaffe is a curator at the Museum of the City of New York, and has also worked at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, the New-York Historical Society (where he served as Senior Project Historian), and the South Street Seaport Museum. Jaffe graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and obtained his doctoral degree in history from Harvard University. His work has been published in The New-York Journal of American History, Seaport: New York’s History Magazine, and in Kenneth T. Jackson’s (ed.) Encyclopedia of New York City. Jaffe is the author of New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (Basic Books, 2012).