Shari Rabin
- Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion
- Chair of Jewish Studies
- Chair of German
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Shari Rabin Article Published in "Southern Jewish History"
Associate professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published “Response to Rabbi Perry Nussbaum: Interracial Marriage, Conversion, and Reform Judaism in Jackson, Mississippi, 1968” in the Primary Sources section of the journal Southern Jewish History.
Shari Rabin Book Published with Princeton University Press
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published The Jewish South: An American History with Princeton University Press.
Shari Rabin Elected Vice President of Southern Jewish Historical Society
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin was elected vice president (and president-elect) of the Southern Jewish Historical Society at their annual conference in Louisville on November 3.
Shari Rabin Pieces Published in Newly-Released Edited Volumes
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published pieces in two newly-released edited volumes: “‘Thy Soul be Accepted’: A Jewish Gravestone in Eighteenth-century Charleston” in American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History (University of Pennsylvania Press) and “From Beautiful Rabbi to Queer Kohenet: Gender and Judaism in and Beyond Transparent,” in Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family eds. Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch (Rutgers University Press).
Shari Rabin Presents at Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Symposium
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion and Chair of Jewish Studies Shari Rabin presented at the "Ways of Being: Evolving Religion and America" symposium hosted by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia.
Shari Rabin Article Published in "Jewish Social Studies"
Shari Rabin published “‘Jews, Heathens, and Other Dissenters’: Governing Religion in the English Atlantic World, 1614-1790” in the journal Jewish Social Studies.
Shari Rabin is Guest Speaker on Judaism in 'Keeping it 101' Podcast
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin was the guest for the podcast Keeping it 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to the Study of Religion's episode on Judaism.
Article Coauthored by Shari Rabin Published
The Journal of Southern History published the article "Simon Gerstmann's War: Religion, Loyalty, and Memory in the Post-Civil War Claims Courts," coauthored by Shari Rabin, associate professor of Jewish studies and religion.
Shari Rabin and Matthew Berkman publish in America Jewish History special issue
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Shari Rabin and Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Matthew Berkman both had pieces published in the journal American Jewish History’s new special issue on antisemitism.
Shari Rabin participates in discussion on Jews and Muslims in America
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin will speak as part of a discussion on "Jews and Muslims in America" at the Graduate Theological Union's Madrasa-Midrasha Program. The conversation begins at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 15. Rabin's talk is titled "Placing Jews in American History" and will consider how Jews have been understood and how Judaism has been transformed in American history, using the 1669 Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina as its starting point.
Shari Rabin Quoted
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin is quoted in an article in the Jewish Telegraph Agency concerning a California synagogue's decision to alter a monument in their synagogue that included the name of a slave-holding, Confederate Jew.
Shari Rabin Gives Workshop
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin gave a training workshop on nineteenth-century Jewish migration for docents at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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The New South
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Jewish Studies Program Celebrates 50 Years
A series of events will commemorate an important milestone in Jewish life and scholarship at Oberlin.
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