Laura Levitt

Laura Levitt is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Temple University where she teaches in the Religion Department and the Women’s Studies Program. She is the author of Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home and co-editor with Miriam Peskowitz of Judaism Since Gender. She is editing the forthcoming collection, Sighting the Holocaust: Contemporary Visions, with Laurence Silberstein and Shelley Hornstein. Her new book project, Ordinary Jews, uses family photographs to tell stories about the everyday lives of American Jews in the early 20th century from under the shadow of the holocaust.