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Peter Ascoli

Born: in New York City
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Ascoli moved to Chicago in 1978 and still resides there today.

Biography: In 1978 Peter Ascoli left Utah and moved to Chicago and worked as a fund raiser for a variety of cultural and educational non-profit organizations, including the University of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.Ascoli is on the faculty of Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. He taught at Utah State University and has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Managment from the Kellogg Graduation School Management, Northwestern University.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Young adult readers

Website: http://www.spertus.edu/degreeprograms/nonprofit/faculty/ascoli.php
Peter Ascoli on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=peter+ascoli


Selected Titles

Julius Rosenwald :
ISBN: 9780253020581 OCLC: 914572930

Julius Rosenwald :
ISBN: 0253347416 OCLC: 86031315

Indiana University Press, Bloomington : ©2006.

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of a forgotten 20th-century philanthropist.

 

 

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