Contributors
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Lila Corwin Berman is professor of history at Temple University, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is author most recently of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Princeton University Press, 2020). Her articles have appeared in several publications, including the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, and AJS Review.
Ayelet Brinn is the Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. She most recently completed a year as the Rabin-Shvidler Joint Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Fordham University and Columbia University after receiving her doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. She is currently working on a book about the role of gender politics in the development of the American Yiddish press.
Cynthia Francis Gensheimer, PhD, is an economist who has written about nineteenth-century Midwestern American Jewish history. American Jewish History has published several of her articles, and American Jewish Archives will soon publish an article that she co-authored highlighting accomplishments of women who were community leaders in small towns toward the end of the nineteenth-century.
Karla Goldman is Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Jewish Communal Leadership Program. Goldman previously served as historian-in-residence at the Jewish Women's Archive and on the faculty at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard University Press, 2000).
Harriet Hartman is the 2019 Marshall Sklare awardee, an honor given annually by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and professor of sociology and chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at Rowan University and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Jewry. She received her BA in Public Service from UCLA, MA in sociology from University of Michigan, PhD in sociology from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published widely in the fields of gender, family, and Jewish identity, including Gender and American Jews: Patterns of Work, Education and Family in Contemporary Life (Brandeis University Press, 2009). She is currently doing research on the impact of Covid-19 on higher education, with a special focus on first-generation college students, and on diverse engineering students.
Kathryn Hellerstein is professor of Germanic languages and literatures and the Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include a translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's poems, In New York: A Selection (Jewish Publication Society, 1982), Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Wayne State University Press, 1999), and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is co-editor (W. W. Norton, 2001). Her monograph, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 (Stanford University Press, 2014), won the Barbara Dobkin Prize in Women's Studies from the Jewish Book Council for the 2014 National Jewish Book Award, and the Modern Language Association 2015 Fenia and Yakov Leviant Prize in Yiddish Studies.
Jillian M. Hinderliter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and a Bilinski Fellow at the University of South Carolina. In Spring 2021, she will defend her dissertation, "Patients' Rights, Patients' Politics: Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women's Health Movement, 1968-1988." Jillian was a 2019-2020 Charleston Research Fellow of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston.
Karen A. Keely teaches English at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She earned her PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and writes about American literature and culture.
Jessica Kirzane is an assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is also the translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press, 2020).
Michal Kravel-Tovi is an associate professor of sociocultural anthropology at...
