Bella Porter Smith, sister (1954-2020
Yehuda Merin (Israeli editor and leader in Holocaust survivor groups/Yad Volyn)
Allen Porter (1926-2020) Chicago and Los Angeles designer and photographer of the Bauhaus movement
Marlon Porter (Allen's son), Australian Rap artist
Nusia Jakub Puchtik was born December 2, 1944, in Rovno, Ukraine to Jewish-Ukrainian partisan parents Faljga Merin and Srulik Puchtik. The family emigrated to the United States on June 20, 1946, and their name was Anglicized to Porter.[1]
In 1976, Porter founded the Journal of the History of Sociology; it published its first issue in 1978.[2]
In the spring of 2012, Porter ran for United States Representative as a write-in candidate in Massachusetts' Fourth District following the departure of incumbent Representative Barney Frank. Running as a Democrat, Porter described himself as a "radical-libertarian-progressive" and aligned his views with those of Representative Ron Paul and SenatorBernie Sanders.[3] Porter's write-in candidacy gained less than 0.1% of the vote; Joseph Kennedy III won the primary with approximately 90% of the vote and was later elected to his first term in Congress in the 2012 general election.[4]
Temple Emmanuel, Chelsea, Mass. 2001, reform and conservative congregation
Congregation B'nai Zion, Key West, Florida, 2001, conservative congregation
Singer: Influenced by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; Reb Michel Twerski; brother Reb Shlomo Porter; father Irving Porter; nephew Rabbi Aryeh Smith; The Feenjon Group; 1950s Israeli singers Ron and Nama, The Dudaim and Hillel and Aviva; plus Mizrachi singer Eyal Golan.
Other influences: Rockabilly (Johnny Burnette, Johnny Rivers, Conway Twitty, Everly Brothers, Elvis, and Terry Lee and the Rockaboogie Band)
Styles of Singing: Hasidic, Israeli, Mizrachi, Sephardic, Yiddish and Rockabilly
Popular Culture:
There's a character called "Jack Porter" in the ABC TV show "Revenge", portrayed by actor Nick Wechsler.
A character, a college professor, in a short story by Jewish novelist and short--story writer David Leavitt in his book "The Stories of David Leavitt" is based on Jack Nusan Porter's life in the small college town of Cortland in upstate New York.
Porter helped the Indigo Girls with the words to their song "This Train Revised" about the persecution of the "The 175ers", the "pink triangles", the gays and lesbians during the Holocaust. His nephew Michael Lorant (from his marriage to Miriam Almuly) and his wife played with the Indigo Girls in Atlanta, GA. and connected Porter to them and through a discussion about the 'Pink Triangles", Porter educated the singers---Amy Ray and Emily Saliers--- about the Holocaust for their 1994 album "Swamp Ophelia"
Update on Research: Sociology and National Socialism: the lives of Edward Yarnall Hartshorne and Talcott Parsons of Harvard University in the 1940s; the history of Holocaust studies at Harvard University since the 1930s to the present.
Selected works
Porter's books include:
Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973 and based on his sociology Ph.D. dissertation from Northwestern University, June 1971)[5]
The Sociology of American Jews (University Press of America, 1978, 1980)[7]
The Jew as Outsider (University Press of America, 1981; The Spencer Press, 2014)[8][9]
Jewish Partisans: A Documentary of Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union During World War II (University Press of America, 1982; The Spencer Press, 2013)[10]
Conflict and Conflict Resolution: An Historical Bibliography (Garland Publishing, 1982)[11]
Genocide and Human Rights: A Global Anthology (University Press of America, 1982)[12]
Confronting History and Holocaust (University Press of America, 1983; new edition with bibliography of Porter's works, The Spencer Press, 2014)[8]
Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the Homosexuals During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 1991, with Rudiger Lautmann and Erhard Vismar; 20th Anniversary edition, The Spencer Press, 2011)[13]
The Sociology of Genocide: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)[13]
The Sociology of Jewry: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)[13]
Women in Chains: On the Agunah (Jason Aronson, 1995)[14]
The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives (University Press of America, 2006)[15]
Is Sociology Dead? Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age (University Press of America, 2008)[16]
Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany: The Persecution of the Homosexuals and Lesbians During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 2011, 2023)
The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union During World War II (in Russian and English, Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Can Mathematical Models Predict Genocide? (The Spencer Press, 2022)
Can Mathematical Models Predict Terrorist Acts? (Academic Studies Press, 2022; with Trevor Jones)
The Wit and Wisdom of Erich Goldhagen on Hitler, Nazism, the Holocaust and Other Genocides (The Spencer Press, 2023)
If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
L'Matara (For the Purpose): Jewish Partisan Poetry and Prose from the DP Camps of Europe (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
New publications: *
Western Civilization: A New Paradigm; 20 epochs according to their social sgteructure and social pideology and philosophy;
new textbooks: What is Culture? What is Sociology? What is Genocide? and What is Antisemitism: From Deicide to Genocide and Beyond;
Since Solomon and Sheba: Black-Jewish Relations Since Biblical Times
The Wit and Wisdom of Harold Brow: How to Succeed in Business and in Life by One of the Most successful Real Estate entrepreneurs in the History of Boston
The Wit and Wisdom of Erich Goldhagen on Nazism, Hitler, the Holocaust and other Genocides; Lecturer at Harvard University
The History of Ben Porter and the Porter-Barg Families of Milford, Mass.
The Scrap Metal Dealers of Milwaukee: From Peddling to Recycling
Humor, Hollywood and Food: New Books:
How to be a Rabbi in 12 Easy Lessons
21 Screen Treatments for Hollywood (including "Key West Rabbi", "Partisans", and Bios of Cultural Rebels like James Dean, C. Wright Mills, and Ty Cobb)
Milwaukee and Hollywood (on Gene Wilder, Jim Abraham and the Zucker Brothers)
Small Town Secrets
Happy Days Revisited (with Gerry Glazer and Sandy Aronin)
Ukrainian--Jewish Cooking (with Raya Porter)
The Sexual Adventures of a Jewish Sociologist (under the pseudonym--Marc Wennerstrom)
Awards
2004: Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology for his founding of the Journal of the History of Sociology, 1977-1982. He shared the award with Glenn Jacobs and Alan Sica.[17]
2009: The Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict (for his work in genocide and Holocaust studies).[18]
^Lewis, J. David (March 1980). "Review of The Journal of the History of Sociology, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1978". Contemporary Sociology. 9 (2): 263–264. doi:10.2307/2066046. JSTOR2066046.; Porter, Jack Nusan (Fall 2004). "The Journal of the History of Sociology: Its Origins and Scope". The American Sociologist. 35 (3): 52–63. doi:10.1007/s12108-004-1017-2. JSTOR27700395. S2CID143925482.
^O'Neill, William L. (June 1974). "Review of Student Protest and the Technocratic Society". The American Historical Review. 79 (3): 911–912. doi:10.2307/1868089. JSTOR1868089.
^Winter, J. Alan (September 1974). "Review of Jewish Radicalism". Contemporary Sociology. 3 (5): 441–442. doi:10.2307/2062009. JSTOR2062009. Gerstein, Arnold A. (September 1974). "Review of Jewish Radicalism". American Jewish Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 79–81. JSTOR23880260.
^Verbit, Mervin F. (January 1980). "Review of The Sociology of American Jews". Contemporary Sociology. 9 (1): 119–120. doi:10.2307/2065627. JSTOR2065627. Sarna, Jonathan D. (May 1983). "The essence of American Judaism". Modern Judaism. 3 (2): 237–241. doi:10.1093/mj/3.2.237. JSTOR1396083.
^ abMartindale, Don (April–June 1985). "Review of Confronting history and Holocaust and The Jew as Outsider". International Journal on World Peace. 2 (2): 101–118. JSTOR20750921.
^Leuner, P. S. (December 1988). "Review of Conflict and Conflict Resolution". The British Journal of Sociology. 39 (4): 640–641. doi:10.2307/590520. JSTOR590520.
^Smith, Earl (July 1985). "Review of Genocide and Human Rights". Contemporary Sociology. 14 (4): 508–509. doi:10.2307/2069221. JSTOR2069221. Leuteritz, Karl (1985). "Review of Genocide and Human Rights". Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 18 (1): 67–70. JSTOR43109412.
^ abcPoll, Carol (April 1995). "Review of The Sociology of Jewry, The Sociology of Genocide, and Sexual Politics in the Third Reich". Teaching Sociology. 23 (2, Teaching about Inequality and Diversity: Age, Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity): 186–189. doi:10.2307/1319357. JSTOR1319357.
^Chrisler, Joan C. (January 1996). "Review of Women in Chains". Contemporary Jewry. 17 (1): 181–182. JSTOR23451118. Jackson, Bernard S. (2002). "A Jewish law miscellany". Journal of Law and Religion. 17 (1/2): 235–245. doi:10.2307/1051426. JSTOR1051426. S2CID232344590.
