Paula Hyman
Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish
History
Director
of Undergraduate Studies
B.J.Ed., Hebrew
College of Boston;
B.A., Radcliffe College;
Ph.D., Columbia
University
Paula Hyman teaches courses in the social and cultural history of Jews in modern Europe and the United States and in Jewish women's history. Before coming to Yale in 1986, she taught at Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is the author of From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939; The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century; Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women; and The Jews of Modern France, as well as numerous articles. She is co-editor-in-chief of the two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, which has won several awards. She is co-author of The Jewish Woman in America and co-editor of The Jewish Family: Myths and Reality and of volume 18 of Polin on Jewish women in Eastern Europe. She edited the English version of Puah Rakovsky's My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Jewish Feminist in Poland. She is currently co-editor-in-chief of the multi-volume Jewish Women: An Historical Encyclopedia and preparing a source book in Jewish Women's History in the modern period. She was chair of the Program in Judaic Studies for thirteen years and has served as DUS. She is a member of the program committee of the Association for Jewish Studies, the Executive Board of the American Jewish Historical Society's Academic Committee, and the Executive Board of the Leo Baeck Institute. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Women's Faculty Forum. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, and Modern Judaism and on the internationally editorial and advisory board of Nashim. She has held NEH and ACLS Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has been the recipient of the Hebrew College of Boston's Benjamin Shevach Award and of the American Jewish Committee's Akiba Award. She also holds honorary degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. She was granted the 2004 Achievement Award in Historical Studies by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is currently the President of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
