Deborah Dash Moore
Encyclopedia
Deborah Dash Moore is the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor, Michigan
.
. She continued her education at Columbia University
, receiving her M.A. in history in 1968 and her Ph.D. in history in 1975.
in New York. While there she served intermittently as head of Religious Studies and helped found a program in Jewish Studies. At Vassar Dash Moore wrote and co-edited numerous books, articles and collections.
Her first book, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981), explores how the children of immigrants created an ethnic world that blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society. To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A. (1994) follows those big city Jews who chose to move to new homes after World War II and examines the type of communities and politics that flourished in these rapidly growing centers.
Issues of leadership, authority and accomplishment have also engaged her attention, first in B'nai B'rith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership (1981), and more recently in the award-winning two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997), which she edited with Paula Hyman.
Her 2004 book, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation, charts the lives of fifteen young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands, simultaneously wrestling with what it meant to be an American and a Jew. GI Jews, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, is a powerful, intimate portrayal of the costs of a conflict that was at once physical, emotional, and spiritual.
In 2008, Moore published American Jewish Identity Politics (University of Michigan), a collection of essays by such notable Jewish studies scholars as Hasia Diner, Jonathan Sarna, and Paula Hyman.
Dash Moore has been exploring photography and the role of Jewish photographers during the early to mid-Twentieth Century.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
.
Early life and education
Deborah Dash Moore earned her bachelor's degree - BA magna cum laude, with honors in history - from Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
. She continued her education at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, receiving her M.A. in history in 1968 and her Ph.D. in history in 1975.
Career & Publications
Dash Moore taught for many years at Vassar CollegeVassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
in New York. While there she served intermittently as head of Religious Studies and helped found a program in Jewish Studies. At Vassar Dash Moore wrote and co-edited numerous books, articles and collections.
Her first book, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981), explores how the children of immigrants created an ethnic world that blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society. To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A. (1994) follows those big city Jews who chose to move to new homes after World War II and examines the type of communities and politics that flourished in these rapidly growing centers.
Issues of leadership, authority and accomplishment have also engaged her attention, first in B'nai B'rith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership (1981), and more recently in the award-winning two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997), which she edited with Paula Hyman.
Her 2004 book, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation, charts the lives of fifteen young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands, simultaneously wrestling with what it meant to be an American and a Jew. GI Jews, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, is a powerful, intimate portrayal of the costs of a conflict that was at once physical, emotional, and spiritual.
In 2008, Moore published American Jewish Identity Politics (University of Michigan), a collection of essays by such notable Jewish studies scholars as Hasia Diner, Jonathan Sarna, and Paula Hyman.
Dash Moore has been exploring photography and the role of Jewish photographers during the early to mid-Twentieth Century.
Awards and honors
- Marshall Sklare Award 2006
- Best Book of the Year 2005 The Washington Post
- Saul Viener Prize for Best Book in American Jewish History, 2003-04, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, awarded by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, June 2001
- National Jewish Book Award for best book in Women's Studies, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997
- Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1998, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997
- Dartmouth MedalDartmouth MedalThe Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association is awarded annually to a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, published during the previous calendar year.-History:...
of the American Library Association for best reference work in 1997, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997 - Association of Jewish Librarians reference book award 1997 for Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia