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Nan­cy Sinkoff

Nan­cy Sinkoff is the aca­d­e­m­ic direc­tor of the Allen and Joan Bild­ner Cen­ter for the Study of Jew­ish Life and pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish stud­ies and his­to­ry at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty – New Brunswick. She is author of Out of the Shtetl: Mak­ing Jews Mod­ern in the Pol­ish Bor­der­lands, of ​“Yidishkayt and the Mak­ing of Lucy S. Daw­id­ow­icz” the intro­duc­to­ry essay to Dawidowicz’s reis­sued From that Place and Time, A Mem­oir, 1938 – 1947, and co-edi­tor with Rebec­ca Cypess of Sara Levy’s World: Gen­der, Judaism, and the Bach Tra­di­tion in Enlight­en­ment Berlin, win­ner of the 2019 book prize from the Jew­ish Stud­ies and Music Study Group of the Amer­i­can Musi­co­log­i­cal Society.

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