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Paula
E. Hyman
Curriculum
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Address:
144 Westwood Rd.,
New Haven, CT 06515
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Personal
Information
Date of Birth:
September 30, 1946
Personal Status: married to Stanley H. Rosenbaum; two daughters
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Professional
Employment
Lucy Moses Professor
of Modern Jewish History, Yale University, 1986--
Chair, Program in Judaic Studies, 1989-2000
Dean, Seminary College
of Jewish Studies & Associate Professor of History, The
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1981-86.
Assistant Professor
of History, Columbia University, 1974-81.
Preceptor in Jewish
History, Seminary Coll. of Jewish Studies of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, 1973-74.
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Education
B.J. Ed., Hebrew
College of Boston, 1966.
B.A., (summa cum
laude), Radcliffe College, 1968. M.A., 1970;
Ph.D., 1975, Columbia
University.
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Honors
and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
Herbert Lehman Fellowship, 1968-72.
Columbia University
Faculty Fellowship, 1968-72.
National Foundation
for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 1972-74.
Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture Scholarship Grant, 1972-73.
Columbia University
Council for Research in the Social Sciences, Summer Grant,
1975, 1977, 1979.
National Endowment
for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1977.
American Council
of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Recent Recipients of
the Ph.D., 1978.
New York Council
for the Humanities, Grant for Conference on Jews, Cities,
and Modernist Culture, 1980.
Lady Davis Visiting
Associate Professorship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring
1986.
Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture Research Grant, 1985-86.
National Endowment
for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research, 1986-87.
American Council
of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1989.
Benjamin Shevach
Award, Hebrew College, 1991.
Finalist (1 of 3),
National Jewish Book Award, History, 1980.
Finalist (1 of 3), National Jewish Book Award, History, 1992.
Fellow, American
Academy of Jewish Research
Dartmouth Medal
Award, American Librarians Association, 1998
Award for best reference
work, Association of Jewish Librarians, 1998.
National Jewish
Book Award, 1999.
Akiba Award, American
Jewish Committee, 1999.
Distinguished Scholar
Award, Ohio State University, 1999.
Honorary Degree,
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2000.
Honorary Degree,
Hebrew Union College, 2002.
Achievement Award
in Historical Studies, National Foundation for Jewish Culture,
2004
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Publications
Books
My Life as a
Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland.
by Puah Rakovsky. Edited with an introduction and notes by
Paula E.Hyman. Translated by Barbara Harshav with Paula E.
Hyman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Paperback,
2003.
The Jews of Modern
France. Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California
Press, 1998.
Jewish Women
in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (co-edited with
Deborah Dash Moore), 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Gender and Assimilation
in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of
Women. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Translated into Hebrew and published by Merkaz Shazar, Jerusalem,
1997.
The Emancipation
of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the
Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1991.
The Jewish Family:
Myths and Reality (edited with Steven M. Cohen). New York:
Holmes and Meier, 1986.
From Dreyfus
to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Reprinted in French
as De Dreyfus à Vichy. Paris: Librairie Arthème
Fayard, 1985.
The Jewish Woman
in America (with Charlotte Baum and Sonya Michel). New
York: The Dial Press, 1976; reprinted by New American Library,
1977.
“Discovering
Puah Rakovsky,” Nashim, 7 (2004), pp. 97-115
“Acculturation
of the Jews in 19th Century Europe,” in The Experience
of Emancipation: European Jewish Artists Confront Modernity,
ed. Susan Goodman,
“Jacob Katz
as Social Historian,” in The Pride of Jacob,
ed. Jay Harris (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002),
pp. 85-96.
“Gender and
the Shaping of Modern Jewish Identities,” Jewish
Social Studies 8, 2-3 (Winter/Spring 2002), pp. 153-61.
"Die Theorie
und ihre Grenzen," in Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung
heute (eds. Michael Brenner and David N. Meyers) (Munich,
C.H. Beck, 2002), pp. 162-70.
“Who Is an
Educated Jew,” Sh’ma Magazine, selected
by Arthur Kurzweil for inclusion in a volume called Best
Jewish Writing of 2002, pp. 287-88.
“The Life
of Glikl of Hameln,” in Judaism in Practice (ed.
Lawrence Fine). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001,
pp. 483-497.
“Modern Jewish
History from a Gendered Peerspective” (Heb.), in Lift
Up Your Voice, ed. Renée Levine Melammed (Israel:
Yediot Aharonot v’Sifrei Hemed, 2001), pp. 145-52.
"Two Models
of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian
Empires," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, XVI (Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 39-53.
"Memory, Gender,
and Identity in Modern Jewish History," in History and
Memory in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, ed. Michael
Signer, (Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press,
2001), pp. 85-104.
"Beyond Place
and Ethnicity: The Uses of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire,"
in The Lower East Side (eds. Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler,
Beth Wenger). Bloomingdale: Indiana University Press, 2000,
pp. 70-85
"Le Judaïsme
consistorial avant-guerre," in Revue d'histoire de la Shoah,
#169 (mai-aoüt 2000), Le Consistoire durant la seconde
guerre mondiale (Paris: Centre de Documentation Juive
Contemporaine), pp. 9-16.
"National Contexts,
East European Immigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative
Analysis," in National Variations in Modern Jewish Identity
(eds. Steven M. Cohen and Gabriel Horenczyk). Albany: S.U.N.Y.
Press, 1999, pp. 109-123.
"The Jewish
Body Politic: Gendered Politics in the Early Twentieth Century,"
Nashim, 2 (1999), pp. 37-51.
"Where Do We
Go from Here: Feminism and Changing Gender Expectations and
Roles in Jewish Communal Life," in Creating the Jewish
Future (ed. Michael Brown and Bernard Lightman). Walnut
Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1999, pp. 185-198.
"East European
Jewish Women in an Age of Transition, 1880-1930," in Jewish
Women in Historical Perspective, 2nd edition (ed. Judith
Baskin), Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998, pp.
270-286.
"Jewish Feminists
Confront American Feminism," David W. Belin Lecture in American
Jewish Affairs, University of Michigan, 1998.
“The Unfinished
Symphony: The Gerson Cohen Years,” in Tradition Renewed:
A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary (ed. Jack
Wertheimer). New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1997,
Vol 1, pp. 233-68.
"Across the
Sea: Continuity and Change in the Immigrant Jewish Family
in America,"[Heb.], in Eros, Erusin v'issurim (ed.
Y. Bartal and I. Gafni). Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, 1998, pp.
335-44.
"The Jewish
Family in Modern Europe," in Women and the Holocaust
(ed. Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman). New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1998, pp. 25-38.
"Jüdische
Familie und kulturelle Kontinuität im Elsass des 19.
Jahrhunderts," in Jüdisches Leben auf dem Lande
(ed. Monika Richarz and Reinhard Rürup). Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 1997, pp. 249-67.
Articles on East
European Immigrant Period, Bat Mitzvah, Jewish Feminism, Jewish
Studies, and two biographies (a total of 40 ms. pages) in
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
"Ezrat Nashim
and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism," in The Americanization
of the Jews (ed. Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen).
New York: New York University Press, 1995, pp. 284-95.
"The Dynamics
of Social History," Studies in Contemporary Jewry,
Vol. X (1994), Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the
Historians (ed. Jonathan Frankel), pp. 93-111.
"Feminist Studies
and Modern Jewish History," Feminist Perspectives
on Jewish Studies (ed. Lynn Davidman and Shelly Tenenbaum).
New Have: Yale University Press, 1994, pp. 120-139.
"Traditionalism
and Village Jews in Nineteenth-Century Western and Central
Europe: Local Persistence and Urban Nostalgia," in The
Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era
(ed. Jack Wertheimer). New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, 1992, pp. 191-201.
"Was There
a 'Jewish Politics' in Western and Central Europe?" in
The Quest for Utopia: Jewish Political Ideas and Institutions
Through the Ages (ed. Zvi Gitelman). Armonk, New York:
M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992, pp. 105-117.
"The Social
Contexts of Assimilation: Village Jews and City Jews in Alsace,"in
Assimilation and community: The Jews in Nineteenth-century
Europe, (eds. Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein),
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 110-129.
"Village Jews
and Jewish Modernity: The Case of Alsace in the Nineteenth
Century," in Jewish Settlement and Community in the
Modern Western World (eds. Ronald Dotterer, Deborah Dash
Moore, and Steven M. Cohen). Selinsgrove, Pa: Susquehanna
University Press, 1991, pp. 13-26.
"Gender and
the Immigrant Jewish Experience in America," in Jewish
Women in Historical Perspective (ed. Judith R. Baskin).
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991, pp. 222-42.
"L'impact de
la Révolution sur l'identité et la culture contemporaine
des Juifs d'Alsace," in Histoire politique des Juifs
en France (ed. Pierre Birnbaum). Paris: Presses de la
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1990, pp. 17-34.
"The Introduction
of Bat Mitzvah in Conservative Judaism in Postwar America,"
YIVO Annual, Vol. XIX (1990) pp. 133-46.
"The Ideological
Transformation of Modern Jewish Historiography," in Shaye
J.D. Cohen and Edward L. Greenstein (eds.), The State of
Jewish Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
1990, pp. 143-157.
"The Dreyfus
Affair: The Visual and the Historical," Journal of
Modern History, LXI, 1 (March 1989), pp. 88-109.
"The Modern
Jewish Family:Image and Reality" in David Kraemer (ed.),
The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory. New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 179-193.
"Jewish Studies
and the Jewish College Experience," in Ronald Kronish
(ed), Towards the Twenty-First Century: Judaism and the
Jewish People in Israel and America. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing
House, 1988, pp. 205-212.
"From City
to Suburb: Temple Mishkan Tefila of Boston," in The
American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed (ed. Jack
Wertheimer). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1987, pp. 85-105.
"Gender and
Jewish History," Tikkun (Jan.-Feb. 1988), pp.
35-38.
"Feminism in
the Conservative Movement," in The Seminary at 100
(ed. Nina Beth Cardin & David Wolf Silverman). New York:
The Rabbinical Assembly, 1987, pp. 373-80.
"The Jewish
Community in France: From Emancipation to the Emergence of
Zionist Ideology," in The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth
and Justice, (ed. Norman Kleeblatt). Berkeley,Los Angeles,
and London: The University of California Press,1987, pp. 25-36.
"Emancipation,"
in Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (edited by
Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr). New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1987, pp. 165-70.
"French Jewish
Historiography since 1870," in The Jews in Modern
France (edited by Frances Malino and Bernard Wasserstein).
Hanover & London: Brandeis University Press, 1985, pp.
328-46.
"Emancipation
and Cultural Conservatism: Alsatian Jewry in the 19th Century"
[Hebrew], Umah v'Toldoteha, II (Jerusalem, 1984), pp.
39-48.
"Culture and
Gender: Women in the Immigrant Jewish Community," in
David Berger (ed.), The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881
and its Impact. New York:Social Science Monographs--Brooklyn
College Press, 1983, pp. 157-68.
"The United
States and the Holocaust," (review essay), Journal
of American Ethnic History, II, 1 (Fall 1982), pp. 65-70.
"The History
of European Jewry: Recent Trends in the Literature,"
The Journal of Modern History, LIV, 2 (June 1982),
pp. 303-19.
"The Social
Foundations of Jewish Modernity," in The Solomon Goldman
Lectures, Vol. III (Chicago, 1982), pp. 71-82.
"The Failed
Alliance: Jewish-Catholic Relations in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1914,"
(with Vicki Caron), Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, XXVI
(1981),pp. 3-21.
"Jewish Fertility
in Nineteenth Century France," in Paul Ritterband (ed.),
Modern Jewish Fertility. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981,
pp. 78-93.
"Immigrant
Women and Consumer Protest: The New York Kosher Meat Boycott
of 1902," American Jewish History, LXX, 1 (Sept.
1980), pp. 91-105; reprinted in The American Jewish Experience
(ed. Jonathan Sarna). New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986,
pp.135-46 and in Ethnicity and Gender: The Immigrant Woman
(ed. George E. Pozzetta). New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.,
1991, pp. 81-95.
"Jennie Grossinger,"
Notable American Women. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1980, pp. 294-95.
"From Paternalism
to Cooptation: The French Jewish Consistory and the Immigrants,
1906-1939," YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science,
XVIII (1978), pp. 217-37.
"Challenge
to Assimilation: French Jewish Youth Movements between the
Wars," Jewish Journal of Sociology, XVIII, 2 (Dec.
1976), pp. 105-14.
"Looking for
a Usable Past," Congress Monthly, Oct. 1975, pp.
10-15. Reprinted in Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being a
Jewish Feminist. New York: Schocken, 1983, pp. 19-26.
"The Other
Half: Women in the Jewish Tradition," Conservative
Judaism (Summer 1972), pp. 14-21. Reprinted in Elizabeth
Koltun (ed.), The Jewish Woman. New York: Schocken,
1976.
"Joseph Salvador:
Proto-Zionist or Apologist for Assimilation?", Jewish
Social Studies, XXXIV, 1 (Jan. 1972), pp. 1-22.
Forthcoming
“The Transnational
Experience of Jewish Women,” in Michael, 2004.
“New Perspectives
on the Dreyfus Affair,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions
Historiques, in press.
Co-editor of special
issue of Polin, Volume 18, to be published in 2005.
“Recent Trends
in European Jewish Historiography,” Journal of Modern
History, 2005.
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Professional
Services and Membership
Association for
Jewish Studies, Board of Directors, 1978-81, 1983-85, 1987-2004;
Vice-president for Membership, 1995-1997; Member of Program
Committee, 1999-
American Academy
of Jewish Research, Fellow, 1995-; Treasurer, 1995-2000; Vice-President,
2000-2004; President, 2004-
National Foundation
for Jewish Culture, Co-chair, Academic Advisory Council, 1995-2002
Leo Baeck Institute,
Executive Board, 1979-; Chairperson of Faculty Seminar, 1979-80.
Series Editor, The
Modern Jewish Experience, Indiana University Press, 1982-
Series Editor, Modern
Jewish History, S.U.N.Y. Press, 1981-82.
YIVO Annual,
Editorial Board, 1989-1995
Jewish Social
Studies, Editorial Board, 1994-
AJS Review,
Editorial Board, 1982-1992
Editorial Board,
Journal for the Feminist Study of Religion, 1985-90
American National
Biography, Section Editor
Reviewer for Woodrow
Wilson Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities,
National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture.
Member of Program
Committee, Berkshire Conference, 2001
American Historical
Association, Program Committee, 1983
American Jewish
Historical Society, Member of Executive Board of Academic
Council, 2004-
American Historical
Association, Contributor to Guide to Historical Literature
Project Co-director,
Conference on Jews, Cities, and Modernist Culture, April 1980
Conference Coordinator,
"The Evolving Jewish Family: Historical, Sociological,
and Cultural Perspectives," June 1981
YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research
Delegate to First World Assembly of Young Jewish Leadership,
Israel, Dec. 1983, delegate to 7th Moriah Conference, Israel,
Jan. 1993
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Community
Service
Seminar on Continuing
Zionist Thought, 1979-1988; member of Steering Committee,
1980-84
Contributing Editor,
Sh'ma Magazine
Vice-chairman, Zionist
Academic Council, 1982-83.
Lecture widely.
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Professional
Presentations
"The Denial
of Self-Interest: French Jewish Politics from Dreyfus to Vichy,"
American Sociological Association, New York, Aug. 29, 1973.
"Looking for
a Usable Past," American Jewish Congress, New York, Apr.
6, 1975.
"Assimilation
and Pluralism in the Interwar French Jewish Community: The
Youth Groups," American Historical Association, Atlanta,
Dec. 29, 1975.
"Jewish Fertility
in Nineteenth Century France," Conference on Jewish Fertility,
New York, Feb. 22, 1976.
Symposium on Jewish
Identity in Historical Perspective, Harvard University Hillel
Society, Cambridge, March 14, 1976.
Moderator and commentator,
panel on Jewish Women, Berkshire Conference on Women Historians,
Bryn Mawr, June 9, l976.
"From Paternalism
to Cooptation: The French Jewish Consistory and the Immigrants,
1906-1939," Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec.
20,1976.
Moderator, panel
on Italian and Jewish women, Joint Meeting of the Italian-American
and American Jewish Historical Societies, Brandeis University,
March 28, 1977.
"Assimilation
in the French Context," Leo Baeck Institute Faculty Seminar,
Dec. 5, 1977.
Chairperson and
commentator, session entitled "Varieties of Jewish Identity:
Jewish Students in Germany and Austria," YIVO Conference
on East European Jewry, New York, Oct. 31, 1978.
"Migration
and Social Mobility of Alsatian Jewry, 1820-1866," Social
Science History Association, Columbus, Nov. 3, 1978.
"Immigrant
Women and Consumer Protest," Conference on Culture and
Community among New York Jews, New York, Jan. 29, 1979.
"Emancipation
and Social Change: A Quantified Study of Alsatian Jewry,"
YIVO Faculty Seminar, Feb. 8, l979.
Organizer and chairperson,
session entitled "The Impact of the Modern State on Jewish
Communal Politics," YIVO Conference on Jewish Communities
Past and Present, New York, Nov. 13, 1979.
Participant, panel
on Teaching the Modern Jewish History Survey, Association
for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 16, 1979.
"The Failed
Alliance: Catholics and Jews in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1914,"(with
Vicki Caron), American Historical Assoc., New York, Dec. 28,
1979.
"The Social
Foundations of Jewish Modernity," Spertus College of
Judaica, Chicago, March 23, 1980.
"New Approaches
to Emancipation and Social Change," Center for Israel
and Jewish Studies Faculty Seminar, Columbia Univ., March
26, 1980.
"The Making
of an Historical Problem: Bettelheim, Arendt, and Hilberg
on Jewish Behavior during the Holocaust," Conference
on Thinking about the Holocaust, Bloomington, Nov. 3, 1980.
"Culture and
Gender: Women in the Immigrant Jewish Community," Conference
on 1881 and its Impact," New York, March 9, 1981.
"Emancipation
and Cultural Conservatism: The Case of Alsatian Jewry,"
Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Aug. 18,
1981.
"The Place
of Holocaust Courses within a Jewish Studies Curriculum,"
Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 21, 1981.
"Jewish Attitudes
towards France's Immigration and Refugee Policy," American
Historical Assoc., Los Angeles, Dec. 28, 1981.
"Alsatian Jewry
and the Social Consequences of Emancipation," Center
for European Studies, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, April 12,
1982.
"The Role of
History in the Teaching of Contemporary Jewry," Workshop
on the University Teaching of Contemporary Jewish Civilization,
Jerusalem, June 29, 1982.
"Changes in
Rural Jewish Communities: Alsatian Towns and Villages in the
Nineteenth Century," Conference on Jewish Settlement
and Community in the Modern Western World, New York, March
21, 1983.
"French Jewry
since 1870: An Historiographical Analysis," Conference
on the Jews in Modern France, Tauber Institute, Brandeis University,
April 17, 1983.
"The Social
Contexts of Assimilation: Village Jews and City Jews in Alsace,"
University of Maryland, Nov. 13, 1983; Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, May 16, 1984; London, June 2, 1985.
"Culture and
Gender: Women in Jewish History," Harvard University
Hillel Society, April 1984; Clark University, Oct. 20, 1986;
Vassar College, March 9, 1987; Stanford University, May 15,
1987.
"The Use and
Abuse of Holocaust Education," Second Generation Conference
on the Holocaust, New York, May 28, 1984.
"Jewish Politics
in Nineteenth Century France," Seminar on Jewish Political
Studies, Jerusalem, July 12, 1984.
"Was There
a World of Our Mothers? The Social Experience of Jewish Women
in America," Piser Lecture, Indiana University, Nov.
5, 1984; University of Florida, Nov. 23, 1987; University
of Michigan Hillel Society, Feb. 16, 1989; Amherst College,
Mar. 9, 1989.
"The Dreyfus
Affair: Turning Point in Jewish History?", Max and Irene
Engel Levy Memorial Lecture, Harvard Univ., Nov. 13, 1984.
"The Modern
Jewish Family: Image and Reality," Conference on the
Jewish Family, New York, May 19, 1985.
Panel discussion,
Conference on French Jewry, the Alliance Israélite,
and the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, May 23, 1986.
"Women in the
Rabbinate," Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, May 28, 1986.
"Modern Jewish
Historiography," Centennial Conference on Jewish Scholarship,
Jewish Theological Seminary, May 17, 1987.
"Was There
a 'Jewish Politics' in Western and Central Europe?" The
Shanik-Fleischer Forum on Jews in the Political World, University
of Michigan, Sept.14, 1987.
"The Dreyfus
Affair and French Jewry," Symposium on the Dreyfus Affair,
The Jewish Museum, New York, Nov. 15, 1987.
"The Introduction
of Bat Mitzvah in Postwar America," YIVO Conference on
Kinship, Mobility and Community among Contemporary American
Jews," New York, Oct. 16, 1988.
"Public Education
and the Formation of a French Jewish Identity," University
of Michigan, Feb. 16, 1989.
"Gender and
Modern Jewish History: Rethinking Old Concepts," Symposium
on "The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Jewish Studies,"
University of Maryland, March 12, 1989.
"Revolution
and Continuity: The Jews of Alsace in the Nineteenth Century,"
Institute of French Studies, New York University, May 4, 1989.
"The Impact
of the French Revolution on the Jews of Alsace in the Nineteenth
Century," World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem,
August 21, 1989.
"Traditionalism
and Village Jews in Western and Central Europe in the Nineteenth
Century: Local Persistence and Urban Nostalgia," Conference
on The Uses of Tradition, Jewish Theological Seminary, New
York, Nov. 5, 1989.
"La Révolution
et la culture et l'identité des Juifs d'Alsace,"
Conference on "1789-1989: Le Devenir des Juifs en France,"
Nancy, Nov. 19, 1989.
"The Acculturation
of the Non-Elite in the Nineteenth Century: Alsatian Jews
from the Revolution to 1870," American Historical Association,
San Francisco, Dec. 30, 1989.
Comment on session
entitled "Learning to Be American Jewish Women,"
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, New Brunswick, N.J.,
June 10, 1990.
Paper on "Women
and Assimilation in the Jewish Home" in a symposium to
accompany museum exhibit entitled "Getting Comfortable
in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950," The
Jewish Museum, New York City, Sept. 18, 1990.
"Feminist Studies
and Modern Jewish History," Conference on Feminist Studies
and Jewish Studies, University of Pittsburgh, October 28,
1990.
"Feminist Perspectives
on Modern Jewish History," Association for Jewish Studies,
Boston, Dec. 17, 1990.
Comment on session
on "The Political History of French Jewry," Society
for French Historical Studies, Vancouver, March 22, 1991.
"The Impact
of American Jewish Feminism," HUC--CUNY Conference on
American Jewry, New York City, April 24, 1991.
"Gender and
Assimilation: Roles and Representation of Women in Modern
Jewish History," The Stroum Lectures, University of Washington,
Seattle, March 10-17, 1992.
"Gender and
Identity: Reflections on Assimilation in Modern Jewish History,"
The Henry N. Rapaport Memorial Lecture, Jewish Theological
Seminary, New York City, April 12, 1992.
"Gender and
Modern Jewish History: Resources for Rabbis," CCAR Conference,
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Nov. 3, 1992.
Comment on session
entitled "Jewish Women: Spirituality, Politics, and Identity,"
American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Dec.
3, 1992.
"The Relation
between Scholarship on Gender and Living as a Jew," Clal Conference,
New York City, Feb. 22, 1993.
"Constructing
a New Home: Jewish Immigrants in Western Europe and the United
States," Conference on Emigration and Integration in Jewish
History, Memphis State University, Memphis, March 1, 1993.
"Gender and
Assimilation in Modern Jewish History," Brown University,
March 4, 1993.
"Seductive
Secularization: Gender, Education and Jewish Identity in Modern
Eastern Europe," Conference on Gender and Judaism, Ohio State
University, April 25, 1993.
Merkaz Zalman Shazar
Conference on the Family, Tel-Aviv, July 8, 1993.
"Reflections
on Women in the Rabbinate," Jewish Theological Seminary, October
24, 1993.
"Priestesses,
Mothers, and Activists: Women in American Jewish History,"
Keynote lecture at the Conference on Women in American Jewish
History, University of Maryland, October 31, 1993; Penn State
University, Feb. 20, 1995.
"Universal
and Particular Factors in Post-Emancipation Diaspora Jewish
Identities," Conference on National and Cultural Variations
in Jewish Identity and Their Implications for Jewish Education,
Melton Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, Jan. 4-6, 1994.
"Teach a Woman,
Teach a People," Auburn Theological Seminary conference, New
York, Feb. 6-7, 1994.
"Memory, Gender,
and Identity in Modern Jewish History," Crown-Minow Conference
on History and Memory, Notre Dame University, South Bend,
Indiana, March 22, 1994.
"Reflections
on the Dreyfus Affair," Colloquium on The Dreyfus Affair in
1994, Columbia University, New York, April 15, 1994.
"Jewish Women
in Historical Perspective," Leo Baeck Institute Symposium
on the History of Jewish Women, New York, May 1, 1994.
"Jewish Women's
Studies: The Current Agenda," Workshop on Gender and Modern
Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July, 1994.
"Paradoxes
in the French-Jewish Experience," Conference entitled
"Français-Juif, Juif-Français," Univ.
of Chicago, Dec. 4, 1994.
"Modernization
of the Jews: The Case of France," AJS Annual Conference,
Boston, Dec. 20, 1994.
"Gender and
the Paradox of Assimilation," American Academy of Jewish Research,
New York, Feb. 12, 1995.
Comment on panel,
Conference entitled "Legacies of the Dreyfus Affair,"
New York University, April 28, 1995.
"The Jewish
Family in Modern Europe," Conference on Gender and the Holocaust,
Jerusalem, July, 1995.
"Memoirs and
Memories: East European Jewish Women Recount Their Lives,"
Conference on Women and Yiddish, New York, October 29, 1995.
"The Jewish
Scholar and the Jewish Community," Plenary Session, AJS Annual
Conference, Boston, Dec. 17, 1995.
Chair and commentator,
session on American Judaism, Berkshire Conference on the History
of Women, Chapel Hill, N.C.,June 7, 1996.
Discussion on "The
Making of Encyclopedias," Conference on American Jewish History
sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society and Jewish
Theological Seminary," New York, June 13, 1996.
Mini-course on
Modern Jewish History, Institute for Holocaust Education and
Jewish Studies, Evanston, June 17-21, 1996.
Delivered paper
at conference on Israel and the Diaspora, co-sponsored by
Ben-Gurion University and Hebrew Union College, Sde Boker
and Jerusalem, July 1-3, 1996.
"Where Do We
Go From Here? Feminism and Changing Gender Expectations and
Roles in Jewish Communal Life," Conference at York University,
Canada, October 1996.
"Training Modern
Jewish Historians," AJS Annual Conference, Boston, Dec. 15,
1996.
"Jewish Feminism
Confronts American Feminism," Belin Lecture, University of
Michigan, March 17, 1997.
Legacies of the
Jewish Fin-de-Siècle: Politics, Culture, and Society.
Organized the conference and delivered the keynote address,
Yale University, Nov. 1-3, 1997.
"Reconstructing
Jewish Womanhood: Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere,"
Wald Lecture, University of Nebraska, Nov. 8, 1997.
Patricia Braun
Silvers and David Silvers Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies,
seminar and lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 11,
1998.
"The Jewish
Body Politic: Gender and Political Activity At the Turn of
the Twentieth Century," Conference entitled "Gendered
Communities: The Challenge to Religion, Nation and Race,"
The Historical Society of Israel, Tel-Aviv University, March
17, 1998.
"Forgotten
Voices and Legacies," conference entitled "The Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Future of the Past in the 21st Century," New
York City, April 22, 1998.
"Beyond Gender:
The Uses of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire," Conference entitled
"Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections,"
New York University, May 11, 1998.
"A Feminist
Perspective on Jewish Fundamentalism," Conference on Regligious
Fundamentalism and the Human Rights of Women, George Washington
University International Law Center, May 19, 1998.
"Women at
the Center: The Emergence of Women in Modern Jewish History,"
Barnard College, Feb. 4, 1999; Ohio State University, May
16, 1999: Loyola University, Nov. 15, 1999; University of
Pittsburgh, Nov. 16, 1999.
Keynote Lecture,
"Gender and Jewish Studies: Reshaping a Field," Thirtieth
Anniversary Conference, "At the Cutting Edge of Jewish
Studies: The Most Recent Developments in the Field," McGill
University, May 9, 1999.
"Modern Jewish
History through the Lens of Gender," Conference on the Impact
of Women's Studies on Jewish Studies, Schechter Institute,
Jerusalem, June 28, 1999.
"Jacob Katz as Social
Historian," Conference on Jacob Katz, Harvard University,
June 1999.
"The Feminization
of Jewish Studies?" Conference on Gender and Jewish Studies,Jewish
Theological Seminary, New York, Oct 17, 1999.
"What Is American
about Jewish Identity in America: A View from a Historian
of European Jewry," The Reappearing American Jew, Conference
sponsored by USC and HUC, Los Angeles, February 6. 2000.
Plenary Session,
"Who Is an Educated Jew?" 75th Anniversary Conference
of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 24, 2000.
"Gender and
Identity in American Jewish Women's Memoirs," Tel Aviv University,
May 29, 2000.
“Gender and
Judaic Studies: Response to Susannah Heschel,” Conference
on Judaic Studies, Elmau, Germany, July 16-18, 2000
"The Jewish
Scholar and the Jewish Community," Association for Jewish
Studies, Boston, Dec. 18, 2000
"Gender and
the Formation of Modern Jewish Identity," AHA Conference,
Boston, Jan. 6, 2001
"Citizenship
and Acculturation: Response to Jacques Ehrenfreund," Conference
on Two Paths of Emancipation? The German and French Jewish
Models Reconsidered, Tützing, Germany, May 9-11, 2001.
Symposium on The
Future of American Jewish Culture, National Foundation for
Jewish Culture, New York City, June 5, 2001.
Distinguished Scholar
at Ben-Gurion University, March , 2002.
“Confronting
Otherness: Jewish Women in Interwar Poland,” Vassar
College April 22, 2002.
Commencement Address,
“Jewish Identity on the Global Frontier,” Hebrew
Union College, Los Angeles, May 13, 2002
Lecture to members
of the American Academy of Jewish Research, New York, June
2, 2002.
Three lectures in
graduate course on Gender and the Family in Jewish History,
Institute of Advance Studies, Hebrew University, June-July
2002.
“From Tradition
to Secularism: Jewish Women in Pre-Holocaust Poland,”
Fsirfield University,
Lehigh University, Nov. 18, 2002; Florida Atlantic University,
April 9, 2003, Wright State University, October 24, 2003..
“My Life as
a Radical Jewish Woman: The Memoir of Puah Rakovsky,”
Women’s Center, JTS and Ma’ayan, New York, November
20, 2002.
“Jewish Women
in America,” Florida International University, February
23, 2003.
“Politics
and Identity of Immigrant Jewish Women in New York City in
the Early Twentieth Century,” Conference on the Immigrant
Jewish Woman, Bar-Ilan University, March 12-13, 2003.
“Reviewing
the Dreyfus Affair,” Keynote Lecture, Conference on
the Dreyfus Affair, Wittenberg College (Ohio), March 28, 2003.
“French Jewry
in the Interwar Years,” SUNY, New Paltz, October 15,
2003.
“Reflectionists
of a Jewish Feminist Historian,” Ryterband Symposium,
Wright State University, October 24, 2003.
“Gender and
Jewish Identity in the Fin-de-Siècle,” Keynote
speaker, European Section of the Southern Historical Association,
Annual Conference, November 8, 2003.
“Feminism
and the American Jewish Community,” Conference on Jewish
Community,” Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, March
21-23, 2004.
“Dissent and
Belonging,” Institute of Advanced Study, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, May 6, 2004.
“Jewish or
Female? Images of Jewish Women in the Modern Period,”
National Conference of Jewish Women, Munich, May 16, 2004.
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"Talking together
in public," Sh'ma, Dec. 23, 1994.
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In Summation," The Forum, Winter/Spring 1993, pp.31-32.
"Right of Passage,"
Hadassah Magazine, June/July 1992, pp. 36-38.
"Aliyah and
Alternatives to Aliyah," in Zionism and the Conservative/Masorti
Movement (ed. John Ruskay and David Szonyi). New York:
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1990, pp. 105-10.
"Disciplinary
Excellence's Jewish Effect," Sh'ma, Dec. 8, 1989.
"History, not
Halakha," in Conflict or Cooperation: Papers on Jewish
Unity. New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1989,
pp. 57-62.
"Stereotypes:
On Becoming a Jewish Mother," in The Jewish Family
Book (ed. Sharon Strassfeld and Kathy Green), Bantam Books,
1981, pp. 11-17.
"Judaism and
the Crisis of Modernity," Reconstructionist, XLVII
(Oct. 1981), pp. 7-13.
Symposium on the
Holocaust, Moment, March-April, 1981.
"New Debate
on the Holocaust," New York Times Magazine, Sept.
14, 1980.
"French Anti-Semitism,"
Sh'ma, Nov. 28, 1980.
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