Nancy Sinkoff

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History
Chair, Department of Jewish Studies

Ph.D., Columbia University

M.A., Columbia University and the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America

B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College

At Rutgers since 1998

Miller Hall
14 College Avenue
732-932-2033

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http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty-information/nancy-sinkoff

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Jewish History, particulary Early Modern Poland and Modern Europe
• Jewish Politics
• Jewish Labor and the Jewish Left
• European Enlightenment

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

• History 01:506:272:01/Jewish Studies 01:563:202:01: The Early Modern and Modern Experience
• History 01:510:385/Jewish Studies 563:385: The History of East European Jewry
• History 506:402:12/Jewish Studies 563:490:01: Politics, Power and Powerlessness in Modern Jewish History
• Jewish Studies/History Seminar: "Community and Crisis: Jewish Communal Life in Transition, 1780-present"
• Special topics: American Jewish History

PUBLICATIONS

• "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz's Political Life," Frankel Institute Annual (2012): 15-17.
• "Fiction's Archive: Authenticity, Ethnography, and Philosemitism in John Hershey's The Wall," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 17, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 48–79.
• "Yidishkayt and the Making of Lucy S. Dawidowicz," Introduction to Lucy S. Dawidowicz, From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
• Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, (Brown Judaic Studies 336, September 2004).
• "(What Was Once) The World's Largest Jewish Community", Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Fall 2007) 647–659.
• "History and Law: The Case of Joseph Perl in Austrian Galicia, " (Hebrew), The Varieties of Haskalah, Shmuel Feiner and Israel Bartal, editors (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 2005): 123-136.
• "The Maskil, the Convert, and the Agunah: Joseph Perl as a Historian of Jewish Divorce Law, " AJS Review 27:2 (2003), 281–300.
• "Strategy and Ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanów (1749-1826)," New Perspectives on the Haskalah, David Sorkin and Shmuel Feiner, editors. (London and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001): 86-102.
• "Triestine Jewry: The Exception that Proves the Habsburg State-Building Rule." Review of Lois Dubin, The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture (Stanford, CA, 1999). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (H-NET List for the study of East Central European History since 1500). May 24, 2000.
• "Benjamin Franklin in Jewish Eastern Europe: Cultural Appropriation in the Age of the Enlightenment ," Journal of the History of Ideas, 61.1 (January, 2000): 133-152.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Historical Association
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
• Association for Jewish Studies
• Women's Caucus, Association for Jewish Studies
• Columbia Faculty Seminar, Center for Israel and Jewish Studies