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Professor American Studies
2007 Women Remaking American Judaism editor

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of Jews and Judaism
  • American Jewish Cultural studies
  • Gender and American Jews

Selected Publications

2008 “Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six Day War .” In Marc Raphael ed. The Columbia History of the Jewish People in America. Columbia University Press, pp114-141.

2007 “Jewish Families and Education: How Parental Choice and the Formation of Families will Shape American Judaism in the 21st century.” In Jack A. Wertheimer ed. Family Decisions: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice. University Press of New England. pp 3-37.

2007 “Community and the Discourse of Elegy: The Post War Suburban Debate.” In Jack A. Wertheimer ed. Imagining the American Jewish Community. Hanover: University Press of New England, pp.67-90.

2007 “Charles Liebman as Correspondent.” In Stuart Cohen and Bernard Susser eds. Charles Liebman: Ambivalent Jew (a festschrieft). New York: Jewish Theological Seminary Press, pp 15-28.

Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation Beacon Press (1999)

2007 “ Summer Camp, Post-War American Jewish Youth and the Redemption of Judaism.” The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, Volume 5. Bruce Zuckerman and Jeremy Schoenberg eds. Purdue University Press. pp. 77-106.

2006 “America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Post War Jewish Youth Revolt,” in Jewish Social Studies (a special issue devoted to Mordecai Kaplan) Vol 12, 2006, pp158-171.

Women Remaking American Judaism , Wayne State University Press (editor, 2007)

Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism, Wayne State University Press (1989)

In Press “Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six Day War .” In  Marc Raphael ed. The Columbia History of the Jewish People in America.

 "A New Key: Decorum and the study of Jews and Judaism." American Jewish History. Vol. 90, March, Pp 13-25.

“Jewish Summer Camping and Civil Right: How Summer Camps Launched a Transformation in American Jewish Culture. David W Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan..

Courses

  • Jewish Women in the United States
  • Jews and Popular Culture in the United States
  • U.S. Politics and Popular Culture 1900-1945