Emeritus Faculty

• Leslie E. Fishbein
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• Professor Emerita in American Studies and Jewish Studies
• Web Page: https://amerstudies.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/people-details/170-emeriti/500-fishbein-leslie

Leslie Fishbein is professor emerita in American Studies and Jewish Studies and was an affiliated faculty member of Jewish Studies, Urban Studies, and Women's Studies.

Her book, for which she won the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Award, Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of The Masses, 1911-1917, is a study of the simultaneous, and often schizophrenic, commitments to socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, Freudianism, feminism, and bohemians of radicals who lived in Greenwich Village during the Teens and published a socialist literary and political magazine. Her research interests have included documentary film, the history of social deviance, film and history, and Women's Studies. She currently is at work on a book on the self-representation of prostitutes and madams.

In 1986-1987 Fishbein served as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa in Israel. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival since its inception and is a lecturer for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Her teaching interests included the history of deviance, the culture of American women, New York metropolitan culture, the history of Freudianism in America, Greenwich Village, the history of sexuality, the culture of the Sixties, the history of childhood, and Jewish-American women's self-representation in memoirs and film.

Rebels in Bohemia : the radicals of the Masses, 1911-1917

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1982

• Judith Gerson
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• Professor Emerita of Sociology, Women’s Gender Studies and Jewish Studies
• Web Page: https://sociology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/core-department-faculty/core-department-faculty-member/154-gerson-judith

Judith Gerson, Professor Emerita, held a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and was an affiliate faculty in Jewish Studies. She taught courses in gender theory; interdisciplinary research methods; narrative analysis; and diaspora, trauma, and collective memory. She also taught in the Gender Studies Program at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen, Norway. In 2012, she received an award from the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers for her distinguished contributions to undergraduate education.

She is presently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled, By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Memory. Focused on the forced emigration and resettlement of German Jews in the U.S. during World War II, the project relies on memoirs, interviews, and correspondence to examine how this group of refugees recalled, evaded, and forgot their past. She compares these personal testimonies to one another, the historiographic record, and to refugee aid organization documents to discern narrative patterns. She is the co-editor with Diane Wolf of Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas (Duke University Press, 2007) and more recently has published on practices of masculinity among German Jewish immigrants, and on the relevance of gender theory in Jewish studies. A former research fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Study at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in 2017 -2018, she was the Ina Levine Senior Invitational Scholar at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Study at the USHMM. In 2019, she co-taught the Silberman faculty seminar on Displacement, Migration, and the Holocaust at the USHMM. She regularly gives public lectures on collective memory and forgetting to various public gatherings of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.

Faculty Article(s):
Gender Theory, Intersectionality, and New Understandings of Jewishness
Faculty Bookshelf:
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

Duke University Press, 2007