Sylvia Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University; and also co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books and numerous monographs and articles on the interplay of American and Jewish values, transformations in the American Jewish family, the impact of Jewish education, gender studies and the changing roles of Jewish men and women, contemporary Jewish literature and film, and the relationship of Diaspora Jews to Jewish peoplehood and Israel. Her most recent book is Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution. Prof. Fishman is the recipient of the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014. She received her BA from Stern College at Yeshiva University and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she wrote on the way English poets used the Hebrew Bible.