Deborah Dash Moore
By Deborah Dash Moore
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Opinion Open Letter | Brandeis University Press is silencing debate
Read a response to this letter from Brandeis University Press here. We are a group of scholars whose research is connected to American Jewish history and experience. All of us have read the preface that Professor Marc Dollinger submitted to Brandeis University Press this fall. We hold a variety of perspectives about its claims and…
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News Remembering Paula Hyman, Pioneering Historian and Feminist
Paula Hyman, a pioneering historian of modern Jews, published “My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman” in 2001. Without its subtitle, “Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland,” it could stand as an apt characterization of Paula herself. The Yale University historian chose to edit the English translation of Puah Rakovsky’s Yiddish memoir because she…
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Opinion The World That Jewish Veterans Built
Each year, as Veterans’ Day comes around, there are fewer and fewer Jewish veterans to observe it. Unfortunately, this does not reflect a peaceful age without wars. Rather, it stems from a dramatic decline in Jewish military service in the United States in the past half-century. Not that long ago, however, Jewish veterans were a…
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