• Nancy Sinkoff
  • Nancy Sinkoff
  • Professor of Jewish Studies and History; and Academic Director, the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
  • Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Additional Degree(s): M.A., Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College Fellow, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2015-2017
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers since 1998
  • Specialty: Early Modern and Modern Jewish History: Intellectual and Eastern European History
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  • Office: 12 College Avenue
  • Phone: 848-932-2033

 

 Click HERE for Curriculum Vitae.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

  • A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History, eds. Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, Howard Lupovitch, and James Loeffler (Wayne State University Press, June 2024).
  • Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery, (Rutgers University Press, 2023).
    Winner of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)'s Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume and shortlisted as a finalist by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume of 2024.
  • From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, (Wayne State University Press, 2020, pb. 2023), winner of the Natan Notable Book award for fall 2020 and the National Jewish Book Award for 2020 in the biography category.
  • Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin, co-edited with Rebecca Cypess (Eastman Studies in Music Series, University of Rochester Press, 2018). 2019 Book Prize winner, the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society.

Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews

PRESENTATIONS

  • "The Centrality of the Polish Language and of Polish History to the History of European Jewry," click here for youtube video
  • "The Worlds of Sara Levy," click here for youtube video
  • The Life and Work of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, click here for youtube video

INTERVIEWS

  • FB Live interview, International Teaching Fellow and Texas A & M Teaching Fellow Discuss Teaching with Testimony, August 3, 2017
  • Interview with Nancy Sinkoff by Paweł Smoleński, Gazeta Wyborcza, August 24, 2015
  • RU-tv interview of Nancy Sinkoff on "Sara Levy's World, Music, Gender and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin."

OTHER

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

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