Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies
She/Her
Office Information:
202 South Thayer Building, 2016
phone: 734.615-8501
United States ; Religion; History
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975
Highlighted Work and Publications
Urban Origins of American Judaism
Deborah Dash Moore
The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban living for American Jews across three centuries. Looking at synagogues, streets, and snapshots, she contends that key features of American Judaism can be understood as an imaginative product grounded in urban potentials.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press Month of Publication: October...
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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture & Civilization
Deborah Dash Moore
A treasury of Jewish creative works from around the world, this volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization introduces readers to the great diversity of Jewish civilization, covering the momentous period from 1973 to 2005. The full sweep of Jewish culture—high and low, famous and obscure, religious and secular—is gathered here, with hundreds of examples from literature, visual arts, and popular culture, as well as intellectual and spiritual works. Readers will discover how contemporary Jewish culture was affected by the feminist movement, Israeli politics after the Yom Kippur... See More