Digital Library: Video

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Dr. Pamela S. Nadell explores her groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. Dr. Nadell’s book won the National Jewish Book Award–Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year.

Participating Scholars

Dr. Michael Cohen
Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience
Tulane University