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Pamela S. Nadell

Historian

Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the American University in Washington, DC. Nadell’s latest book America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today was published to great acclaim in 2019, with the New York Times praising its “vivid picture of a golden land that often defaulted on its promises.” A past pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies, Nadell won 2019’s National Jewish Book Award. “Just think of the great num­bers of Jew­ish women who have entered nation­al, state, and local pol­i­tics; or the myr­i­ads who are leav­ing their marks in the worlds of busi­ness, the arts, edu­ca­tion, the media, and activism,” she observed in an interview earlier this year. (Photo: Jewish Women's Archive / Screenshot)