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Sylvia Barack Fishman

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#2367

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#695

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Sylvia Barack Fishman's Degrees

PhD Sociology Brandeis University
Masters Sociology Brandeis University
Bachelors Sociology Brandeis University

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According to Wikipedia, Sylvia Barack Fishman is an American feminist sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and a board member of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She writes about Jewish life in America.

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Sylvia Barack Fishman's Published Works

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Published Works

Double or Nothing?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (2004) (82)
A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (1993) (58)
Jewish life and American culture (2000) (57)
When They Are Grown They Will Not Depart: Jewish Education and the Jewish Behavior of American Adults, CMJS Research Report 8 (1993) (36)
Linking the Silos: How to Accelerate the Momentum in Jewish Education Today (2005) (31)
Jewish identity in conversionary and mixed marriages (1999) (27)
Ethnic Capital and Intermarriage: A Case Study of American Jews (2006) (25)
Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent: The Gender Imbalance in American Jewish Life (2008) (24)
American Jewishness Today: Identity and Transmissibility in an Open World (2015) (19)
Generating Jewish Connections: Conversations with Jewish Teenagers, Their Parents, and Jewish Educators and Thinkers (2007) (13)
Jewish and Something Else: A Study of Mixed-Married Families (2001) (12)
Gender in American Jewish Life (2015) (11)
The Way Into The Varieties Of Jewishness (2006) (10)
Gender and American Jews (2009) (8)
Teach Your Children When They Are Young: Contemporary Jewish Education in the United States (1993) (8)
The Changing American Jewish Family Faces the 1990s (1994) (8)
Choosing Jewish: Conversations about Conversion (2006) (6)
Learning About Learning: Insights on Contemporary Jewish Education from Jewish Population Studies (1987) (6)
Go Figure: Feminist Sociological Analysis of Diverse Jewish Households (2019) (6)
Follow my footprints : changing images of women in American Jewish fiction (1992) (6)
Will I have Jewish grandchildren (2012) (5)
Reimagining Jewishness:: Younger American Jewish Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Artists in Cultural Context (2011) (5)
Judaism as the “Third Shift”:: Jewish Families Negotiating Work, Family, and Religious Lives (2015) (5)
Changing Jewish Life: Service Delivery and Planning in the 1990s (1991) (5)
Policy Implications of the Gender Imbalance among America's Jews (2008) (4)
Homelands of the Heart: Israel and Jewish Identity in American Jewish Fiction (1996) (4)
The changing american jewish family in the 80s (1988) (3)
Choosing lives: Evolving gender roles in American Jewish families (2005) (3)
The Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life (1989) (3)
13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood (2014) (3)
Cultivating Jewish Roots: Why American Judaism Should Advocate For Endogamy (2005) (2)
Negotiating Egalitarianism and Judaism: American Jewish Feminisms and Their Implications for Jewish Life (1999) (2)
Transformations in the Composition of American Jewish Households (2010) (2)
Relatively Speaking: Constructing Identity in Jewish and Mixed Married Families (2002) (2)
Comparative Reflections On Modern Orthodoxy And Women’s (2001) (2)
American Jewishness Today: Identity and Transmissibility in an Open World (2015) (2)
Women’s Transformations of Contemporary Jewish Life (2009) (2)
Triple play: Deconstructing jewish lives (1993) (1)
Changing Minds: Feminism in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Life (2000) (1)
Intermarriage and American Jews Today: New Findings and Policy Implications (1990) (1)
Forum on Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism? (2019) (1)
Ilana Horwitz, God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). 240 pp (2022) (0)
Are Young Jews Actually More Connected Than Believed (2013) (0)
Exploring Policy Implications of Data on Jewish Education from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other Recent Studies (1994) (0)
Dappled Things: Reading and Analyzing the New Jewish Writing (2007) (0)
The History of Judaism in America: Transplantations, Transformations, and Reconciliations. Vol. 5 (1999) (0)
Intermarriage in Contemporary American Jewish Societies (2006) (0)
Introduction (1999) (0)
11. Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores (2019) (0)
Jewish Life and American Culture, by Sylvia Barack Fishman and The Next Generation: Jewish Children and Adolescents, by Ariela Keysar, Barry A. Kosmin, and Jeffery Scheckner (2002) (0)
The Impact of Feminism on the Contemporary American Jewish Community (1989) (0)
Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation (review) (2000) (0)
Contributors (1958) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation (review) (2009) (0)
3. Jonathan Woocher, Sacred Survival (2020) (0)
Anthropomorphic Angst (2012) (0)
Contributors to This Issue (2011) (0)
The New Zionists: Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel by David L. Graizbord (review) (2021) (0)
Picturing Interfaith Relationships (2004) (0)
Don’t Underestimate the Hybridity of America’s Orthodox Jews (2017) (0)
The way we were: reading the past in the present (2000) (0)
Choosing Limits, Limiting Choices: Women's Status and Religious Life (2005) (0)
The wartered garden and the bridge of god : patterns of biblical imagery in poems of Spenser, Milton, and Blake (1980) (0)
Women Remaking American Judaism (review) (2009) (0)
Roundtable: Jewish Women and Philanthropy (2010) (0)
JPS Guide to American Jewish Fiction (review) (2011) (0)
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage. By Beth S. Wenger. (2013) (0)
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage. By Beth S. Wenger. (2013) (0)
The Larger Battle (2013) (0)
SBF Response to Harriet Hartman Sklare Award Address (2020) (0)
Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel Chiswick (review) (2016) (0)
Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores (2019) (0)
Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families (2015) (0)
Jewish Households, Jewish Homes: Serving American Jews in the 1990s (1990) (0)
Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (review) (2012) (0)
Interrogating Jewish Peoplehood: Concepts, Challenges, and Policies--Final Report (2010) (0)
Todd M. Endelman, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 367. (2018) (0)
The Status of Jewish Women's Studies in the United States and Canada: A Survey of University and College Courses As of 1999 (1999) (0)
SBF Response to Harriet Hartman Sklare Award Address (2020) (0)
Contributors (1971) (0)
Women: Their Education, Work, and Jewish Communal Participation (1997) (0)
Integrating Jewish and Feminist Educational Goals (2012) (0)
Real Americans: The Evolving Identities of American Jews (1996) (0)

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Brandeis University