Paula Hyman

Paula Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and President of the American Academy for Jewish Research. While a graduate student at Columbia University, Paula Hyman became a feminist activist, with a particular interest in bringing feminist change into the Jewish community. She is a founding member of Ezrat Nashim, which led the charge for the admission of women to the Conservative rabbinate. Much of her scholarship has focused on the roles and representation of Jewish women. A co-author of The Jewish Woman in America, she published Gender And Assimilation in Modern Jewish History and co-edited (with Deborah Dash Moore) the prize-winning encyclopedia, Jewish Women in America. Most recently, she edited an English-language version of the memoirs of an otherwise forgotten Jewish feminist from Poland, Puah Rakovsky’s My Life as a Radical Jew. She is currently co-editing a multi-volume encyclopedia on Jewish women from the Hebrew Bible to the present and beginning a project on antisemitism, gender, and Jewish identity.