Review of the Art of the Jewish Family
Check out this lovely review of my new book by a scholar I admire so much, Jenna Weissman Joselit! https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/artic...
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leibman
Apr 4, 20202 min read
The Art of the Jewish Family is now available on Kindle!
In The Art of the Jewish Family, I examine five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years...
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leibman
Apr 4, 20201 min read
The Four Parts of the Academic Argument
What sets apart college-level writing from the kind of research papers you did in High School? In this video you will learn about the...
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Laura Arnold Leibman
Apr 15, 20151 min read
To Be A Mensch: A Tribute to Sacvan Bercovitch (1933-2014) [Religion in American History Blog Post]
Although others have spoken at length about Saki's magnificent academic accomplishments and the extremely important way he shaped the...
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Laura Arnold Leibman
Apr 15, 20151 min read
Mapping the Western Sephardic Diaspora in the Caribbean (Religion in American History Blog Post)
Deep in the Surinamese jungle lies the ruins of what was once the prospering plantation town of Jodensavanne--Jew's Savanne. Just past...
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leibman
Oct 15, 20141 min read
Spiritual Makeup: Religion and Cosmetics (Religion in American History Blog Post)
For early Americans and Europeans alike, cosmetics carried spiritual and moral messages. In this post I look to three examples of the use...
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leibman
Oct 15, 20141 min read
When Women Don't Marry: Single Blessedness and the Shidduch Crisis (Religion in American History blo
"Save our desperate daughters," proclaims the cover article in issue 521 of Mishpacha [family] magazine, an English-language,...
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leibman
Sep 11, 20141 min read
Female (Mis)Behavior, Class, and Religious Authority: Bath Attendants in Early America (Religion in
What can baths tell us, then, about the everyday lives and challenges women faced in early America? In this post, I move beyond an...
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leibman
Sep 11, 20141 min read
Virtually Dead: Religion in the Age of the Internet (Religion in American History blog post)
This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we...
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leibman
Jun 19, 20141 min read
Jews and Judaism in the American World of “Difference” (Religion in American History blog post)
Last week's American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) Biennial Scholars Conference on "Jews and Judaism in the American World of...
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leibman
Mar 20, 20142 min read
Sephardic Learning Online
In my recent post on religion and children's toys, I noted that orthodox Jews have taken advantage of and adapted technology. A great...
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leibman
Feb 16, 20141 min read
Religion and Toys: Religion in American History Blog Post
Why is it that Christian Fundamentalists have had better kitsch than Charedi Jews? Will this always be the case? To answer this question,...
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leibman
Jan 15, 20141 min read
Clothing and Religion: Religion in American History Blog Post
Do you dress your religious beliefs? Some American religions (Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, to name a few) include doctrines about how...
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leibman
Oct 21, 20132 min read
The Kabbalah Project: Kabbalah in Art & Architecture
The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...
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leibman
Oct 21, 20131 min read
Kabbalah Project Theme 2: Heavenly Palaces and the Throne Charriot
The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...
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leibman
Oct 16, 20131 min read
Religion in American History: Language, Media, Religion Mini-conference
My latest post on the Religion in American History Group Blog on a recent Language, Media, and Religion mini-conference and roundtable...
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leibman
Oct 9, 20131 min read
Eclectic low income housing by Dutch Jewish architect Michel de Klerk.
Eclectic low-income housing by Dutch Jewish architect Michel de Klerk. Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam. See more images on twitpic. de...
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leibman
Oct 8, 20131 min read
Dutch Mikva'ot: 19th Century Mikveh at the Esnoga Complex
Notice how the color of the tiling in this 19th century mikveh mimics the beautiful color of the water below. This mikveh was added to...
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leibman
Oct 7, 20131 min read
Signs of the Colonial Past: Stone Tablets on Amsterdam Canal Houses
One of the lovely elements of the older houses (and some newer) in the Old Canal Rings in Amsterdam is the use of stone tablets to...
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leibman
Oct 4, 20131 min read
Why Gravestones? (Jewish Atlantic World Database)
This webinar will introduce you to what kind of evidence gravestones provide and why scholars value them. This video is a companion to...
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