EDUCATION
PhD – New York University, History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies, awarded May 2018
Dissertation: “Here, We’re Real Jews”: Producing Authentic Jews in Postwar American Jewish Summer Camps, 1945-1980
BA - The New School University, Eugene Lang College – History and Politics, awarded 2011
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-Current - Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age at NYU
2021-2022 - Senior Researcher at Stanford University, Concentration in Education & Jewish Studies
2019-2021 - Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
2018-2019 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ben Gurion University Sde Boker, The Ben Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism
BOOK
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
Stanford University Press, February 2023
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“‘The Passionate Few’: Youth and Yiddishism in American Jewish Culture, 1964 to Present,” Jewish Social Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1–34.
“‘Laboratories of Yiddishkayt’: Postwar American Jewish Summer Camps and the Transformation of Yiddishism,” American Jewish History, vol. 103 no. 3, 2019, p. 279-301.
“Is This What You Call Being Free?”: Intergenerational Negotiation, Democratic Education, and Camper Culture in American Jewish Summer Camps, 1945-1975,” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 13, no. 1 (2020): 19-37.
“Tisha B’Av, “Ghetto Day,” and the Production of “Authentic” Jews at Postwar Jewish Summer Camps,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 17, issue 2, 2018,156-172.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps, by Jonathan B. Krasner, Sarah Bunin Benor, and Sharon Avni. Journal of Jewish Identities 14, no. 1 (2021): 122-124.
Review of Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press, by Eddy Portnoy,
American Jewish History 103, no. 2 (2019): 242-244.
Review of Serious Fun at Jewish Community Summer Camp: Family, Judaism, and Israel, by Celia Rothenberg. American Jewish History 101, no. 3 (2017): 414-416.
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2021 - Honorable Mention, The Salo Wittmayer Baron Dissertation Award in Jewish Studies
2019-2021 Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
2017-2018 - Association for Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2016-2017 - The Jacob Rader Marcus American Jewish Archives Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman Memorial Fellowship
2016 - The Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture (College of Charleston) Research Fellowship
2016, 2017 - NYU Graduate Research Initiative in Tel Aviv, Israel Fellowship
2015 - The Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at Haifa University Fellowship
2015-2018 - Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History Doctoral Fellowship at NYU
2012-2015 - The Taub Center for Israel Studies NYU Doctoral Fellowship
2014-2016 - Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU Summer Language Grants
2014 - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Scholarship
2013 - The Taub Center for Israel Studies Research Grant
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 - American Jewish History, NYU
2022 - Jews of New York, NYU
2019, 2016, 2015 – Jewish History, Adjunct Instructor, The New School
2013 – Modern Israel, Teaching Assistant, NYU
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Yiddish Decline, Youth, and American Jewish Language Activism, 1964-Present,” Paper, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, June 2021
“Imperfect Panacea? American Jewish Education and the Response to Crisis,” Roundtable Participant, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2020
Organizer and Panelist: “Yiddish and Identity from Yugntruf to Yiddish Farm,” on panel “Yiddish Linguistic Identity across Communities and Generations,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2020
“‘Suffering or Heroism?’: The Israelification of American Jewish Summer Camping,” The Power of Jewish Camping Conference, Mandel Center, Brandeis University, November 2019
”American Jewish Summer Camps of the Fifties: Yiddishism, Zionism, and Jewish Education in Transition,” The Jewish 1950s, Symposium at University of Florida, March 2019
Organizer and Panelist: “Jewish Youth Encounters in the Postwar Period: Summer Camps, Youth Movements, and Jewish Identity in the US, Australia and Europe,” Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, June 2019
Organizer and Panelist: “Placing Childhood: Jewish Youth and Space in the 20th Century,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2018
Discussant: “Jews on TV: Exploring Representations of Jewish Identity on American and Israeli Screens," Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2018.
‘Laboratories of Yiddishkayt’: Reconstructing Yiddishism at Postwar Jewish Summer Camps," American Jewish Historical Society Conference, June 2018
“Sing, Speak, Simulate: Playing Israel at American Jewish Summer Camps, 1945-1980,” Taub Center for Israel Studies, April 2018
“‘Gonna Turn this Camp Right Upside-Down’: Democracy, Resistance, Humor and Sex at Ideological Jewish Summer Camps, 1945-1980,” Conference Paper, Association for Jewish Studies, 2017
“Hebrew, Yiddish, and the Quest for Jewish "Authenticity" at American Jewish Summer Camps,” Conference Paper, World Congress of Jewish Studies, 2017
“Ideology, Anxiety, and Simulation: Becoming ‘Real Jews’ at Postwar American Jewish Summer Camps," Conference Paper, The Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, 2017
"Tisha B'Av, 'Ghetto Day,’ and the Use of Tragedy in Postwar American Jewish Summer Camps," Conference Paper, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, 2016
Discussant: “On Creative Assignments: Building Skills between Text and Context in the Jewish Studies Classroom,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2016
“Here, We’re Real Jews”: Zionism, Yiddishism, and the Production of Authentic Jewishness in Postwar Summer Camps, 1945-1970, Fellowship Lecture, The Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, 2016
“‘Mameloshn’” Revolution: Yugntruf’s Yiddish Youth and Identity Politics in 1960s-1970s America Conference Paper, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, 2015
“Fifty Years of Yiddishist Youth: Yugntruf and Yiddish Farm in the Age of Deassimilation”
Conference Paper, New York University and Kulturfest Symposium on Yiddish, Invited Talk, 2015
“Vi Volt Men Gezogt: Yugntruf and Yiddish Farm in Comparative Analysis” Invited Guest Lecture, Vilna Yiddish Institute, 2015
“‘They Need it for Collecting Wisdom’: Dynamics and Ideologies of a Transnational Zionist Sisterhood, 1909-1960,” Conference Paper, New York University History First Year Research Conference, 2013
“Yiddish and the Question of Nationalism in Contemporary Israel,” Presentation, New York University Hebrew Judaic Studies, 2013
PUBLIC AND INVITED TALKS
“Yiddishist Gender Politics,” Harvard University, September 2020
“The Jews of Summer: Jewish Summer Camps in Postwar America,” California State University at Long Beach, 2nd Annual Dr. Arlene Lazarowitz Memorial Lecture, February 2020
“A New Generation of Yiddishists,” Monash University, Melbourne, July 2019
“Yiddish at the American Jewish Summer Camp,” Jiddisch Seminariet Sweden, August 2018
“‘In their Struggle for Creative Survival’: American Jewish Summer Camps, 1945-1980,” Center for Jewish History, May 2017
“Yiddish in the Digital Age,” Beit Leyvik, Tel Aviv, December 2017
“For the Love of the Goles: Yiddishland, Ashkenormativity, and Where We Go From Here,” Congregation Beth Elohim, Park Slope, May 2017
“What We Learn from Tisha B’Av at Summer Camp,” Havurat Tel Aviv, August 2017
“Yiddish Culture in the Age of the Start-Up: A Panel Discussion about Yiddish in the Twentieth Century,” Yiddish Book Center and the Eldridge Street Synagogue Museum, May 2016
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2020-2022 - Peer Review Editor at In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
2016-Present - Producer and Founder, Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish
2017-Present - Member of Editorial Board, In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
2015-2016 - President, Hebrew Judaic Studies NYU Graduate Student Organization
2015, 2014 - Program Coordinator, Yiddish Farm Summer Intensive
LANGUAGES
Yiddish (fluent)
Hebrew (fluent)
German (reading knowledge)
French (reading knowledge)
Esperanto (reading knowledge)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Jewish Studies
American Jewish Historical Society
American Historical Society
Society for the History of Children and Youth
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