Visiting Faculty
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Nancy SinkoffAssociate Professor of History
and Jewish Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University
M.A. Columbia University and the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
B.A. Harvard-Radcliffe College
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14 College Avenue,
Miller Hall
(732) 932-7249
(732) 932-2033
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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
PUBLICATIONS
Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, (Brown Judaic Studies 336, September 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),
HABSBURG@H-NET.MSU.EDU (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