Deborah Dash Moore

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Deborah Dash Moore (born 1946, New York City) is the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History, both at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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[edit] Early Life and Education

Deborah Dash Moore earned her bachelor's degree - BA magna cum laude, with honors in history - from Brandeis University. She continued her education at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in history in 1968 and Ph.D. in history in 1975.

[edit] Career & Publications

Dash Moore taught for many years at Vassar College in New York. While there she served intermittently as head of Religious Studies and helped found a program in Jewish Studies. While at Vassar Dash Moore wrote and co-edited numerous books, articles and collections.

Her first book, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981), explores how the children of immigrants created an ethnic world that blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society. To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A. (1994) follows those big city Jews who chose to move to new homes after World War II and examines the type of communities and politics that flourished in these rapidly growing centers.

Issues of leadership, authority and accomplishment have also engaged her attention, first in B'nai B'rith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership (1981), and more recently in the award-winning two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997), which she edited with Paula Hyman.

Her most recent work, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004), charts the lives of fifteen young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands, simultaneously wrestling with what it meant to be an American and a Jew. GI Jews, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, is a powerful, intimate portrayal of the costs of a conflict that was at once physical, emotional, and spiritual.

[edit] Awards and Honors

  • Marshall Sklare Award 2006
  • Best Book of the Year 2005 The Washington Post
  • Saul Viener Prize for Best Book in American Jewish History, 2003-04, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
  • Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, awarded by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, June 2001
  • National Jewish Book Award for best book in Women's Studies, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1998, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997
  • Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for best reference work in 1997, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1997
  • Association of Jewish Librarians reference book award 1997 for Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia

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