Shari Rabin is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish stud­ies and reli­gion at Ober­lin Col­lege. She is the author of Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca, win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award.