Public Engagement
LECTURES & PANELS
➣ Returning: The Women and Men of the Countercultural Ba'al Teshuva Movement
Zev Eleff's HTC undergraduate course (HISH 264) with Sarah Benor and Ephraim Buchwald.
Zoom, April 27, 2020
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➣ Auschwitz and the Professors
Holocaust Remembrance: "Only Someone Forgotten is Dead"
Restoring Through Stories, Holocaust Research Study Group at the Women’s Research Center, Brandeis University, February 6, 2020 | identity and the Holocaust
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➣ Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism
University of Michigan School of Social Work, March 13 – March 15, 2019
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➣ Bearing Witness Without Witnessing
Holocaust Remembrance Week, Brandeis University, January 26, 2017 | identity and the Holocaust
➣ Ways of Knowing in the Study of Jewish Identity (with Harriet Hartman)
Association for Jewish Studies, December 2013 | demography and Jewish identity
➣ What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust: Post Memory Narratives and Jewish Identity (keynote address)
➣ If Not Now When? Responsibility and Memory After the Holocaust
University of Ottawa, April 2013 | sociology of religion
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➣ Narrative, Demography and the Changing Dichotomies of the Sacred and the Secular (with Harriet Hartman)
Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, August 2012 | demography and Jewish identity
➣ Assimilation/erosion or resilience/revival Narratives: Putting the Flesh on Demographic Bones
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2012 | demography and Jewish identity
➣ Telling Ourselves Stories: Feminism, Narrative, Demography and American Jewish Identity
National Women’s Studies Association, 2012 | demography and Jewish identity
➣ Questions about the Meaning of Jewish Identity
Socio-Demography Conference, Brandeis University, October 2011 | demography and Jewish identity
➣ The Holocaust and Contemporary Jewish Identity (keynote address)
27th Annual Holocaust Conference, Purdue University, April 2008 | sociology of religion
➣ “Being” and “Doing” Jewish in America: Surveys, Narratives and Religious Identity
American Academy of Religion, November 2004 | identity and the Holocaust
➣ The Robert D Klein University Lectureship
Religious Revival in America: Awakening the Feminine, 1987
➣ 'Doing Justice' and Post Holocaust Jewish Identity
➣ Ba'alot Teshuvah: Revivalists or Traditionalists?
➣ Better the Devil You Know: Feminist Women, Orthodoxy and Choice
➣ Beyond Belief, Behavior and Belonging: Can You Still Be Jewish?
➣ Gender, Post Holocaust Memory and Political Identity
➣ Making the Secular Sacred: Holocaust Narratives and Jewish Identity
➣ My Mother's Daughter, My Daughter's Mother: Adult Mothers and Their Daughters on Jewish Identity
➣ ‘Never Again' the Universal and Particular Message in Post Holocaust Identity Narratives
➣ On Being Feminist: Some Jewish Concerns
➣ Paradoxical Politics and Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
➣ Secularism as Denominational Judaism?
➣ The Holocaust: From the Margins to the Center in Western Popular Culture
➣ What Does Religion Have to Do With Jewish Identity?
➣ What Makes Secular Jews Jewish?
➣ What Place the Holocaust in Contemporary Identity Narratives Among Young Adults in the U.S. and Israel
Debra Kaufman (2014), Contemporary Jewry, Volume 34:2, pp. 61-73.