Deborah Dash Moore

Biographic Data

ID533383
NAMEDeborah Dash Moore
GIVEN NAMESDeborah Dash
FAMILY NAMEMoore
SIGNATUREMOORE D D
AFFILIATIONSVassar College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Miami Beach: The making of a Jewish resort city

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEJewish Culture and History2023

    In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entrepreneurship first of Jewish hotel owners and then of Jewish builders. As a popular, middle-class vacation resort, it blended elements of big city sophistication with ethnic Jewish tastes. Its southern section housed an exceptional, visible community of elderly, Yiddish-speaking Jews who brought their public culture to its beaches and sidewalks. American Je…

  • Re-Imagining Outdoor Playspaces: An Unexpected Consequence of the Covid-19 Lockdown

    Deborah Dash Moore, Deborah Moore et al.ARTICLEChildren Youth and Environments2022

    This paper presents a series of reflective observations on the use of outdoor spaces in Melbourne, Australia, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. With the closure of playgrounds and organized sports, the authors observed three themes emerging: changes in users and uses of parks and reserves; markers of children's activities in public areas; and, children's creation of huts, dens or "cubbies" as evidence of constructive and imaginative pla…

  • Wonder of Wonders: Rethinking Religion in Manhattan

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEChurch History2021

    God in Gotham issues a challenge: if religion can survive, nay thrive, in Sodom by the Sea, then maybe we need to revise our theory of secularization of the modern world. The book's subtitle articulates its subversive claims: "The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan." Its alliterative argument suggests a measure of wonder, one of those features of pre-modern life supposedly banished by secularization and the disenchantment of the world

  • Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

    Howard B Rock, Daniel Soyer et al.BOOKJewish New York2020

    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the a…

  • Global Jewish Foodways: A History

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEJournal of American History2020

  • Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America

    Deborah Dash Moore, S Ilan TroenBOOKDivergent Jewish Cultures2017

    Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty p…

  • Melissa R. Klapper, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEClio2016

    Melissa Klapper opère plusieurs déplacements historiographiques par son histoire de l’activisme politique des femmes juives américaines au cours du demi-siècle précédant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Tout d’abord, elle élargit la définition du politique en y incluant l’activité des organisations de femmes juives des classes moyennes engagées pour la paix après la Première Guerre mondiale et pour le développement du contrôle des naissances. Elle déf…

  • Michael Berkowitz . Jews and Photography in Britain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. 358 pp

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEAJS Review The Journal of the…2016

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  • Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948–1967

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948–1967 Get access By Emily Alice Katz. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. xiv, 215 pp. $85.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1251–1252, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav712 Published: 01 March 2016

  • Where We Came From: The Arcs of J udaism in A merica

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEThe Muslim World2014

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  • Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920

    Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer et al.BOOKEmerging Metropolis2013

    Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish cityEmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, …

  • On city streets

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEContemporary Jewry2008

  • At Home in America: Revisiting the Second Generation

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2006Cited by: 1

  • Judaism as a Gendered Civilization: The Legacy of Mordecai Kaplan's Magnum Opus

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEJewish Social Studies2006Cited by: 1References: 2

    I n his 1934 masterwork, Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan raises a question that challenges AmericanJews at the start of the twenty-first century. The issue of how to live in two civilizations, not as reluctant bystanders or as bitter critics of American society and culture but as deeply committed Americans and Jews able to embrace the best in both civilizations, lies at the heart of the enterprise of American Jews. Despite dramatic …

  • Forum

    Open AccessLeigh Eric Schmidt, Deborah Dash Moore et al.ARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…2003

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  • Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America

    Steven Rosenthal, Deborah Dash Moore et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 6

    Divergent Jewish Cultures, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen, is the product of a series of seminars and a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania with papers given by Israeli and American scholars. The book examines how the two great centers of contemporary Jewry, despite common national and religious origins, have developed distinct and often contradictory cultures. The fifteen contributors examine subjects ranging from t…

  • Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America

    Deborah Dash Moore, S Ilan TroenBOOKDivergent Jewish cultures2001

    Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty p…

  • Judaism since Gender

    Deborah Dash MooreARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2000

    Book Review| January 01 2000 Judaism since Gender Judaism since Gender, Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt. Deborah Dash Moore Deborah Dash Moore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (2): 106–107. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502554 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Dash Moore; Judaism since Gender. Journal of Ame…

  • The Ta'am of Tourism

    Deborah Dash Moore, Dan GeblerARTICLEPacific Historical Review1999Cited by: 1

    Research Article| May 01 1999 The Ta'am of Tourism Deborah Dash Moore, Deborah Dash Moore Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dan Gebler Dan Gebler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (2): 193–212. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641984 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Sha…

  • Jewish GIs and the Creation of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

    Open AccessDeborah Dash MooreARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…1998Cited by: 1References: 1

    Fifty years ago last June," Bernard Bellush recalled, "our naval vessel,LST 379, plowed through the choppy waters of the English Channel under overcast skies. We were part of the vast Allied armada heading for the D-day invasion of Omaha Beach in France. Despite briefings," he admitted, "not one of us was prepared for the cliffs bristling with German armament." Raised in a socialist Jewish home, Bellush joined the army to fight in World War II li…

  • And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest since 1855

    Deborah Dash Moore, Linda Mack SchloffARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Review of: And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest since 1855. Schloff, Linda Mack

  • Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation.

    Deborah Dash Moore, Susanne KlingensteinARTICLEThe American Historical Review1992

    This work examines how the philosophy and literature departments of Ivy League colleges in the early 20th century gradually accepted Jewish men, and how this integration transformed the thinking of these Jewish professors, many of whom had been raised in Orthodox homes.

  • Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation

    Deborah Dash Moore, Susan A GlennARTICLEInternational Migration Review1992

  • An Ambiguous Partnership: Non-Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939-1948

    Deborah Dash Moore, Menahem KaufmanARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article An Ambiguous Partnership: Non-Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939–1948. By Menahem Kaufman. (Jerusalem: Magnes Press and Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 418 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8143-2370-7.) Get access Deborah Dash Moore Deborah Dash Moore Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 716–717, https://doi…

  • First A Dream: The History of Boston's Jewish Hospitals, 1896 to 1928

    Deborah Dash Moore, Arthur J LinenthalARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article First A Dream: The History of Boston's Jewish Hospitals, 1896 to 1928. By Arthur J. Linenthal. (Boston: Beth Israel Hospital/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1990. xxii + 737 pp. $33.00.) Get access First A Dream: The History of Boston's Jewish Hospitals, 1896 to 1928. By Linenthal Arthur J.. (Boston: Beth Israel Hospital/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1990. xxii + 737 pp. $33.00.) Deborah Dash Moore Deborah Dash…