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Areas of Research/Interest: American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history. Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011; National Jewish Book Award and the Saul Viener Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society, We Remember with Reverence and Love American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2010); Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research, Princeton University, 2002 – 2003, Nominee, James Beard Award, “Writing About Food” category, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard University Press, 2001), Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research (elected), Member, Society of American Historians (elected), One of twenty living women historians included in American Women Historians. 1700-1900s (New York: Greenwood Press, 1998), Jennifer Scanlon and Sharon Cosner, eds.
Select Publications:
Books:
American Jews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).(Part of a series for young readers) -Reissued, 2003, as A New Promised Land: A History of the Jews in America. In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks. 1915-1935 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995; reissue of 1977 edition) A Time for Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration, Vol. 2 in, The Jewish People in America, Henry B’eingold, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1984) Articles:“Buying and Selling ‘Jewish’: The Historical Impact of Commerce on Jewish Communal Life,” Imagining in the Jewish American Community, Jack Wertheimer, ed. (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2007). pp. 28-44. “The Local and the Global: Lombard Street and the Modern Jewish Diaspora,” Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore. Deborah Weiner, Anita Kassof, and Avi Y. Decter, eds. (Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2007). pp 10-21.
“American Immigration and Ethnic History: Moving the Field Forward, Staying the Course,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25, 4 (Summer) 2006. pp 130 – 141.
“Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History: Peddlers and the American Jewish South,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), pp. 1 – 30.
“The Vanishing Middle Ground: Religion and Culture: Views of 10 Scholars,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2004.
“American Jewish History,” Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, Martin Goodman, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). pp. 471 – 490.
“American West, New York Jewish,” Jewish Life in the American West, Ava Kahn, ed. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003). pp. 33 – 51.
“Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception,” Key Texts in American Jewish Culture, Jack Kugelmass, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003). pp. 210 – 222.
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We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945 – 1962 (New York: New York University Press, 2009)
From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Age, with Elliott Barkan and Alan Kraut (New York University Press, 2007)
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Berkeley,CA:University of California Press, 2004)
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2002)
Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (with Beryl Lieff Benderly) (New York: Basic Books, 2002)
Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections, with Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America. (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2000.)
