From Poet Emma Lazarus to Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Women in America

From Poet Emma Lazarus to Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Women in America 

9am PDT

Historian, author, national book award winner and Ohio State Buckeye , Pamela Nadell weaves together the complex story of Jewish Women in America in conversation with Rabbi Patricia Fenton. 

Professor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University where she directs the Jewish Studies Program and received the university’s highest award, Scholar/Teacher of the Year. Her books include Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889-1985. Her most recent book, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today (W.W. Norton, 2019), won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award – Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year. Its paperback edition was published this month. 

Rabbi Patricia Fenton is a lecturer with the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and the Graduate Center for Jewish Education. She is the Manager of Public Services for the Bel and Jack M. Ostrow Academic Library, and the Reference Librarian for both of our AJU Libraries. She also teaches with the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program, and frequently serves on the Rabbinical Assembly Beit Din for conversions to Judaism.