Deborah Dash Moore Wins the National Jewish Book Award

Deborah Dash Moore, the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and the director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was honored with the National Jewish Book Award presented by the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. She is the co-editor of the book Gender and Jewish History (Indiana University Press). She authors a chapter in the book entitled, “Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women With Cameras.” The chapter discusses Jewish women photographers in New York City in the 1930 and 1940s.

Professor Moore is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University. She earned a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2005, she taught at Montclair State University and Vassar College.