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Deborah Dash Moore

University of Michigan, History and Judaic Studies, Faculty Member

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Deborah Dash Moore is the former Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Miami Beach: The Making of a Jewish Resort City

Journal of Jewish Culture and History, 2023

In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entreprene... more In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entrepreneurship first of Jewish hotel owners and then of Jewish builders. As a popular, middle-class vacation resort, it blended elements of big city sophistication with ethnic Jewish tastes. Its southern section housed an exceptional, visible community of elderly, Yiddish-speaking Jews who brought their public culture to its beaches and sidewalks. American Jewish photographers pictured this world as an American shtetl even as Jewish American television producers imagined Miami as a multicultural and multiracial site of vice, eroticism, and cool melodrama.

Jewish Builders in New York City, 1880-1980

The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century, 2021

New York's identity as a twentieth-century city owes much to its Jewish builders. This article ex... more New York's identity as a twentieth-century city owes much to its Jewish builders. This article examines the impact of New York Jewish builders on the cityscape over the course of a century. It first looks at the nineteenth-century origins of Jewish participation in construction of tenements and single and two-family houses. These experiences prepared the ground for the 1920s, years of explosive growth when Jewish builders helped to define the physical dimensions of the modern city. The article then examines the postwar decades when glass, steel, and aluminum replaced brick and mortar. Not only in new neighborhoods emerging in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, but also in the heart of Manhattan, Jewish builders left their stamp upon the city.

Wonder of Wonders: Rethinking Religion in Manhattan Deborah Dash Moore

Church History, 2021

God in Gotham issues a challenge: if religion can survive, nay thrive, in Sodom by the Sea, then ... more

Review of Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers

The Reconstructionist, 1976

"Jewish History on the Mall"

AJS Perspectives, 2011

Review of National Museum of American Jewish History

Deborah Dash Moore, “Review of ‘Global Jewish Foodways: A History’, eds. Hasia R. Diner and Simone Cinotto,” The Journal of American History, vol. 106, no. 4 (March 2020): 1035-1036

Deborah Dash Moore, “Review of ‘American Jewry: A New History’, by Eli Lederhendler,” American Jewish History 102:3 (July 2018): 451-452

Deborah Dash Moore, “Sidewalk Histories, or Uncovering the Vernacular Jewishness of New York,” in Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed., Conversations with Colleagues (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), 110-131

Deborah Dash Moore, “Who Built New York? Jewish Builders in the Interwar Decades,” American Jewish History 101:3 (July 2017): 311-355

Deborah Dash Moore, “Comment,” in Proceedings: Fourth Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture (June 2015): 8-9

Deborah Dash Moore, “Remaking Ourselves at Home,” American Jewish History 100:2 (April 2016): 179-189

Deborah Dash Moore, “Roman Vishniac’s New York,” in Maya Benton, ed., Roman Vishniac Rediscovered (New York: International Center of Photography, 2015), 139-143

Deborah Dash Moore, “How a Kosher Meat Boycott brought Jewish Women’s History into the Mainstream: An Historical Appreciation,” American Jewish History 99:1 (January 2015): 79-91

Deborah Dash Moore, “What’s Right about Jewish Cultural Affirmation,” eJewish Philanthropy (8 January 2014)

Deborah Dash Moore, “Remarks on Friedman Medal,” American Jewish History 97:2 (April 2014): 101-104

Deborah Dash Moore, “Choosing our Foremothers: The Tikva Frymer-Kensky Chair,” Lilith (Fall 2013)

Deborah Dash Moore, “Jüdisher Aktivismus: Bürgerrechte und Holocaust-Bewusstsein,” Aufbau, nr. 10 (October 2013): 19-21

Deborah Dash Moore and Noa Gutterman, “Cooking Reform Judaism,” in Carole B. Balin, et al., eds., Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2013), 128-152

Deborah Dash Moore, “Religious Pluralism in American Judaism,” in Charles Cohen and Ronald Numbers, eds., Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 141-164

Deborah Dash Moore, “Sidewalk Histories,” in David Gerber and Alan Kraut, eds., Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013), 32-45

Miami Beach: The Making of a Jewish Resort City

Journal of Jewish Culture and History, 2023

In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entreprene... more In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entrepreneurship first of Jewish hotel owners and then of Jewish builders. As a popular, middle-class vacation resort, it blended elements of big city sophistication with ethnic Jewish tastes. Its southern section housed an exceptional, visible community of elderly, Yiddish-speaking Jews who brought their public culture to its beaches and sidewalks. American Jewish photographers pictured this world as an American shtetl even as Jewish American television producers imagined Miami as a multicultural and multiracial site of vice, eroticism, and cool melodrama.

Jewish Builders in New York City, 1880-1980

The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century, 2021

New York's identity as a twentieth-century city owes much to its Jewish builders. This article ex... more New York's identity as a twentieth-century city owes much to its Jewish builders. This article examines the impact of New York Jewish builders on the cityscape over the course of a century. It first looks at the nineteenth-century origins of Jewish participation in construction of tenements and single and two-family houses. These experiences prepared the ground for the 1920s, years of explosive growth when Jewish builders helped to define the physical dimensions of the modern city. The article then examines the postwar decades when glass, steel, and aluminum replaced brick and mortar. Not only in new neighborhoods emerging in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, but also in the heart of Manhattan, Jewish builders left their stamp upon the city.

Wonder of Wonders: Rethinking Religion in Manhattan Deborah Dash Moore

Church History, 2021

God in Gotham issues a challenge: if religion can survive, nay thrive, in Sodom by the Sea, then ... more

Review of Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers

The Reconstructionist, 1976

"Jewish History on the Mall"

AJS Perspectives, 2011

Review of National Museum of American Jewish History

Deborah Dash Moore, “Review of ‘Global Jewish Foodways: A History’, eds. Hasia R. Diner and Simone Cinotto,” The Journal of American History, vol. 106, no. 4 (March 2020): 1035-1036

Deborah Dash Moore, “Review of ‘American Jewry: A New History’, by Eli Lederhendler,” American Jewish History 102:3 (July 2018): 451-452

Deborah Dash Moore, “Sidewalk Histories, or Uncovering the Vernacular Jewishness of New York,” in Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed., Conversations with Colleagues (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), 110-131

Deborah Dash Moore, “Who Built New York? Jewish Builders in the Interwar Decades,” American Jewish History 101:3 (July 2017): 311-355

Deborah Dash Moore, “Comment,” in Proceedings: Fourth Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture (June 2015): 8-9

Deborah Dash Moore, “Remaking Ourselves at Home,” American Jewish History 100:2 (April 2016): 179-189

Deborah Dash Moore, “Roman Vishniac’s New York,” in Maya Benton, ed., Roman Vishniac Rediscovered (New York: International Center of Photography, 2015), 139-143

Deborah Dash Moore, “How a Kosher Meat Boycott brought Jewish Women’s History into the Mainstream: An Historical Appreciation,” American Jewish History 99:1 (January 2015): 79-91

Deborah Dash Moore, “What’s Right about Jewish Cultural Affirmation,” eJewish Philanthropy (8 January 2014)

Deborah Dash Moore, “Remarks on Friedman Medal,” American Jewish History 97:2 (April 2014): 101-104

Deborah Dash Moore, “Choosing our Foremothers: The Tikva Frymer-Kensky Chair,” Lilith (Fall 2013)

Deborah Dash Moore, “Jüdisher Aktivismus: Bürgerrechte und Holocaust-Bewusstsein,” Aufbau, nr. 10 (October 2013): 19-21

Deborah Dash Moore and Noa Gutterman, “Cooking Reform Judaism,” in Carole B. Balin, et al., eds., Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2013), 128-152

Deborah Dash Moore, “Religious Pluralism in American Judaism,” in Charles Cohen and Ronald Numbers, eds., Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 141-164

Deborah Dash Moore, “Sidewalk Histories,” in David Gerber and Alan Kraut, eds., Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013), 32-45

*Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People*, co-authored with Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, and Daniel Soyer (New York: New York University Press, 2017)

*Urban Origins of American Judaism* (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2014; paperback 2016)

*GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004; paperback 2006)

*Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images*, with Howard Rock (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)

*To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.* (New York: The Free Press, 1994)

*B’nai Brith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership* (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981)

*At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981; paperback, 1983)

*Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life*, co-edited with Michal Kravel-Tovi. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016)

*Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization*, Volume 10, co-editor with Nurith Gertz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012)

*City of Promises: A History of New York Jews*, general editor (New York: New York University Press, 2012)

*Gender and Jewish History*, co-editor with Marion Kaplan (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010)

*American Jewish Identity Politics*, Editor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008)

*Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America*, Co-editor with S. Ilan Troen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)

*Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia*, Co-editor with Paula Hyman. 2 vol. (New York: Routledge, 1997)

*East European Jews in Two Worlds: Studies from the YIVO Annual* Editor (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990)

Where We Came From: The Arcs of Judaism in America

The Muslim World, 2014

Two interpretations of Judaism in America: one within the framework of American history and the o... more

Reimagining Transnationalism

Israel's Role in World Jewish Identity, 1998

"Israel on my Mind"

Estudos judaicos nas Americas, entrevista com Deborah Dash Moore

Revista Digital do NIEJ ANO 5 N

Interview on Jewish studies in the U.S. in Brazilian magazine by Flavio Limoncic

Historians Letter ENG V

Historians Letter, 2023

A strong statement about the current situation in Israel and the damage being done to the state a... more