Books By Shulamit S. Magnus, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization - Author

Shulamit S. Magnus is Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College. She has previously taught in the history departments of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania and has been a Lady Davis Fellow in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Yad Hanadiv-Barecha Fellowship for her work on Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother; Volume I of this critical edition of Wengeroff's memoirs won the National Jewish Book Award (2010), Volume II the Hadassah-Brandeis Translation Award (2013). Her other books include Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871 (1997). Her scholarly and teaching interests lie in Jewish social and cultural history, Jewish women's history, the workings of gender in Jewish society, and questions of identity, boundary formations, and shifts.