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.
