Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Learning and Teaching Jewish American History

Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Barry L. Stiefel

Barry L. Stiefel, Ph.D. is a Professor of Historic Preservation & Community Planning at the College of Charleston. He has completed numerous publications, including ones that address sustainability, cultural-ethnic architectural history, historic transportation mobility, human-centered preservation, community-building through historic places, and preservation education. He is the author of several books and articles, including the forthcoming book, Monuments of Diverse Heritage: Early American Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples.

He is available to give talks or class visits online or in person for a fee. Languages: English.

Website: https://cofc.academia.edu/BarryStiefel

In the news: https://today.cofc.edu/2022/01/27/professors-research-results-in-historic-plaque/

Publications:

CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/149F6VkY1GUpgqQRYdm8pMioNcoH1QIRU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106474229448062704715&rtpof=true&sd=true

 

Laura Leibman

Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is the author of "The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects" (BGC 2020), "Indian Converts" (UMass Press, 2008) and "Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2012), which won a National Jewish Book Award, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, and was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013. Laura has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Laura, who earned her PhD from UCLA, is currently at work on a book that uses material culture to trace the history of members of a multiracial family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean but became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.