Jayne K. Guberman

Jayne K. Guberman is Director of Oral History at the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA). She directed Weaving Women’s Words, JWA’s oral history project to record the life experiences of American Jewish women and served as project director for the Weaving Women’s Words exhibitions in Seattle and Baltimore. She is editor of In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women, JWA’s guidebook on conducting gender-sensitive oral histories. Currently Guberman directs Katrina’s Jewish Voices, an online collecting and oral history initiative to capture and preserve the American Jewish community’s experiences of Hurricane Katrina. Guberman holds a BA from Harvard College and received her PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania.