Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1977 Major: Modern European History. M.A., Columbia University, 1969. Major: Modern European History. Honors: New York State Teaching Fellowship. B.A. summa cum laude, Douglass College (Rutgers University), 1967. Majors: German Languages and Literature; History. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, German Academic Exchange Award.

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Research Interests:

German-Jewish history.

Selected Works:

Book: Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (Oxford U Press, 2005)

Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, co-editor (with Beate Meyer) and contributor (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2005)

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, March 1998).

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (New York, Oxford University Press, 1991.)

The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany: The Campaigns of the Juedischer Frauenbund, 1904-1938 (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979.)

The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History Contributing Editor (New York: Institute for Research in History and the Haworth Press, 1985

When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany Co-Editor with Renate Bridenthal and Atina Grossmann (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.

Geschichte des Judischen Alltags in Deutschland: Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis 1945 Contributing Editor (Munich, Beck Verlag, 2003)

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