Deborah Dash Moore Wins the National Jewish Book Award
Posted on Mar 15, 2012 | Comments 0
Deborah Dash Moore, the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and the director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was honored with t
he National Jewish Book Award presented by the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. She is the co-editor of the book Gender and Jewish History (Indiana University Press). She authors a chapter in the book entitled, “Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women With Cameras.” The chapter discusses Jewish women photographers in New York City in the 1930 and 1940s.
Professor Moore is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University. She earned a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2005, she taught at Montclair State University and Vassar College.