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PAULA HYMAN
PhD, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Radcliffe College
BJEd, Hebrew College of Boston

Paula Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, with appointments in the history and religious studies departments at Yale. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Women's Faculty Forum.

A graduate of the Hebrew College of Boston and of Radcliffe College, she received her MA and PhD from Columbia University, where she taught Jewish history for several years. She has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and served there as dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies. She is a fellow and vice-president of the American Academy of Jewish Research. She was a founding member of Ezrat Nashim, one of the most influential American Jewish feminist organizations. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, and lectures frequently in a variety of academic and communal settings.

A specialist in the modern period, Dr. Hyman has devoted her research to two areas, the history of French Jewry and Jewish women's history. Among her books are The Jews of Modern France (1998); The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth-Century (1991); From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 (1979); The Jewish Woman in America (co-authored with Charlotte Baum and Sonya Michel) (1976); and The Jewish Family: Images and Reality (co-edited with Steven M. Cohen) (1986). Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (1995), which has appeared in a Hebrew translation, remains her favorite book. Most recently, she edited, introduced, and annotated an English translation of Puah Rakovsky's memoir, titled My Life As a Radical Jewish Woman (2002), which has also been released in paperback. She is also co-editor with Deborah Dash Moore, of the two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1998). The encyclopedia has received the American Library Association's Dartmouth Medal Award, awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries and the New York Public Library, and the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies in Honor of Barbara Dobkin.