Sylvia Barack Fishman
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Comment: I'm skeptical that Fishman meets WP:PROF. Her h-index is about 12. I'm not sure how significant the listed awards are. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Sylvia Barack Fishman (b. 1948) is a Jewish-American feminist sociologist and author. [1] She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, and a board member of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. [2] She writes about Jewish life in America.[3] [4]
Books
The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness (Jewish Lights, 2008)
Double or Nothing?" Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (Brandeis, 2004)
Jewish Life and American Culture (SUNY Press, 2000)
A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life, 1995)
Relatively speaking: Constructing identity in Jewish and mixed married families (David W. Belin lecture in American Jewish affairs, 2002)
Awards and honors
Marshall Sklare Award of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014 (2014)
Vice President Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (2008 - 2011)
Marver & Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1995 - 1996)
National Jewish Book Award Honor Book, contemporary Jewish life category (A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community) (1994)
Samuel Belkin Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Yeshiva University (1991)
Danforth Graduate Fellowship for Women (1974 - 1978)
= References
- ^ "Modern Orthodoxy: A model for the great American Jewish dream?". Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ^ "Sylvia Barack Fishman". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ^ Shevitz, Amy Hill (2004). "Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History (review)". American Jewish History. 92 (3): 396–399. doi:10.1353/ajh.2006.0036. ISSN 1086-3141.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: DOUBLE OR NOTHING?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage by Sylvia Barack Fishman, Author . Brandeis Univ. $29.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-58465-206-9". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-06-07.