Announcements
Nonnie Sinoff receives Henry Rutgers Scholar Award
Annabelle "Nonnie" Sinoff, Class of 2021
English major
Jewish Studies and Business Administration double minor
Henry Rutgers Scholar Award Recipient
The Henry Rutgers Scholar Award recognizes graduating seniors who have completed outstanding independent research projects leading to an interdepartmental thesis or a thesis in their major field of study. Every year, professors are invited to nominate students who have done exceptionally strong work in their discipline that highlights the originality of the research and conclusions along with exhibiting evidence of superior critical reasoning and scholarly achievement.
Graduating senior, Christine Jensen, profiled by SAS
Christine Jensen, Class of 2021
Jewish Studies and Religion double major
History minor
A Rutgers Senior Finds Her Path Studying the Mysteries of Scripture and the Big Questions of Faith
Written by John Chadwick | SAS Senior Writer
Professor Nancy Sinkoff presents a public lecture at Baruch College
The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College, CUNY
proudly presents a public lecture with Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University
“From Left to Right: Lucy Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History”
Wednesday, April 21st at 6:30 pm EST on Zoom: Public Lecture
This talk, based on Prof. Nancy Sinkoff’s recently published book by the same name, reconsiders the work and life of Lucy Dawidowicz, an eminent intellectual and historian. Sinkoff makes the case that Dawidowicz’s rightward shift from communism to neoconservatism emerged out of living in prewar Poland, watching the Holocaust unfold from New York City, and working with displaced persons in postwar Germany.
Nancy Sinkoff is the Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Dr. Sinkoff’s fields of interest include early modern and modern Jewish history, East European Jewish intellectual history both in the Polish heartland and in its diasporic settlements, the Enlightenment, politics, and gender. She is the author of From Left to Right: Lucy Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History and Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands and coeditor, with Rebecca Cypess, of Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin.
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Student Awards
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Congratulations to the Fall 2020 Award Recipients:
Esther Martens, and Steven Weinberg
Professor Nancy Sinkoff wins 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the category of biography
Jewish Book Council announced the winners of the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, now in its seventieth year.
The third annual Biography Award in Memory of Sara Berenson Stone is given to From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press) by Nancy Sinkoff, which was also named a Natan Notable Book from Natan Fund and Jewish Book Council in fall 2020.
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