Barry Stiefel

Barry Stiefel is a doctoral student in the historic preservation program at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he is studying the preservation of historic Jewish sites and Jewish urban history. A native and resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for 23 years, Stiefel worked on The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945-2005 after returning to Ann Arbor from the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans. His family's Jewish roots in the Detroit area date to the second decade of...See more

Barry Stiefel is a doctoral student in the historic preservation program at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he is studying the preservation of historic Jewish sites and Jewish urban history. A native and resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for 23 years, Stiefel worked on The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945-2005 after returning to Ann Arbor from the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans. His family's Jewish roots in the Detroit area date to the second decade of the 20th century. See less