Nancy Sinkoff (bio)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Jewish History, particulary Early Modern Poland and Modern Europe
- Christian-Jewish Relations
- Jewish Politics
- Jewish Labor and the Jewish Left
- European Enlightenment
REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES
Jewish Historical Fictions
Jewish Society and Culture II
Modern Jewish Historiography
PUBLICATIONS
"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, 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),
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(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 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
