Linda Mack Schloff

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Linda Mack Schloff is a historian, an author and the director of collections, exhibits and publications at the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. [1]

With Hymie Berman, she co-authored Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 (1996), and Jews in Minnesota (2002), both on Minnesota Historical Society Press. In Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher four generations of Jewish women recount tales of how they sustained their Jewish culture in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin. [2]

Her other publications include Overcoming Geography: Jewish Religious Life in Four Market Towns in Minnesota History (spring 1988), [3] Along with Reva Margolis Rosenbloom, Schloff was executive producer of We Knew Who We Were: Memories of the Minneapolis Jewish North Side (2000), a video recording by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest that documented recollections of several generations of Jewish residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota's north side.[4]

Schloff is adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies, where she is director of the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives. Her research interests include American Jewish women, Upper Midwest Jewish history, post-World War II Jewish social, cultural and economic life, and recent immigration from the former Soviet Union.[5] She was part-time faculty at Macalester College in 1998. [6]