Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Learning and Teaching Jewish American History

Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Lori Harrison-Kahan

Lori Harrison-Kahan is Full Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College. She is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary; editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson; and co-editor of Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History. She also co-edited a reissue of Emma Wolf’s 1900 novel, Heirs of Yesterday, and the Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s writings titled The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled West of the Ghetto: Pioneering Women Writers and Jewish American Literary Culture.

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

Website: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/english/people/faculty-directory/lori-harrison–kahan.html

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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.