Commentary on American Antisemitism
Online Interview: Antisemitism at New All-Time High American University (January 13, 2023)
Media Interview: MPR News with Angela Davis: Addressing the Rise in Antisemitism (December 13, 2022)
Media Interview: WNET Metro Focus: Exploring Hate, The Normalization of Antisemitism (December 7, 2022)
Quoted in: Reddit users turn Kanye West page into a Holocaust awareness forum Washington Post (December 3, 2022)
Quoted in: The deep roots of antisemitism’s resurgence in America VOX (December 1, 2022)
Quoted in: Dave Chappelle isn’t the first to suggest that Jews run Hollywood. Here are the origins of the trope. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (November 16, 2022)
Media Interview: Inside Edition on comtemporary antisemitism (November 4, 2022)
Media Interview: FOX LiveNOW about antisemitism (October 26, 2022)
Debate: The Great Debate: Is the Golden Age of American Jewry Over? (American Jewish Committee Global Forum, with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, June 14, 2022)
Article: Today in History: Antisemitism, an American Problem (PBS Exploring Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and Extremism, March 14, 2022)
The January 6 Insurrection: One Year Later (American University, January 6, 2022)Televised Lecture: American Antisemitism Between World War I and World War II (C-SPAN Lectures in American History, October 25, 2021)
Book Review: Are Jewish Ghosts More Valued than Jewish Lives? (Washington Post , October 13, 2021)
Panel Discussion: Set the World on Fire: How Antisemitism Fuels White Nationalism . A panel discussion with Eric Ward, Daryl Johnson, and Derek Black for PBS Exploring Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and Extremism (September 30, 2021)
Radio Interview: American Antisemitism, Interview with Top of Mind Julie Rose (July 7, 2021)
Webinar: Henry Ford and Antisemitism Between World War I and World War II In conversation with Daniel Greene, curator of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Exhibition Americans and the Holocaust (Moment Magazine, May 18, 2021)
Public Lecture: “It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past (University of Michigan Belin Lecture in American Jewish Studies, November 10, 2020)
Article: Anti-Semitism in the US is a Variation on an Old Theme (The Conversation, Times of Israel, November 7, 2019)
Article: When Resisting Anti-Jewish Hate is Women’s Work (Hadassah Magazine , March 2019)
Interview: Why the President of the Association for Jewish Studies Opposes the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (Lilith , November 14, 2017)
Congressional Testimony: Examining Antisemitism on College Campuses , U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary (November 7, 2017)
Interview: Q & A with Pamela Nadell: ‘Still Talking About Anti-Semitism’ (Hadassah Magazine , January 2017)
Press
Algemeiner Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life , (Algemeiner , December 2, 2020)Jewish Women: Winding Their Way Through History (Southern Jewish Life Magazine , October 16, 2020)How American Jewish Women Shaped American Culture: An Interview with Pamela S. Nadell (World Religion News , April 25, 2019)Jewish Women’s Lives in Context (Jewish Women International , March 2019)First ever Jewish herstory to hit stores ahead of International Women’s Day (Times of Israel , February 27, 2019)A new book sheds light on little-known American Jewish women throughout history (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 25, 2019)Out of the Margins: Prof. Finds Jewish Women at the Forefront of American History (American University News , December 10, 2018)The First Generation Jewish Feminists (Jerusalem Post , May 10, 2017)American University Professor Addresses Early Role of Jewish Women in Politics (B’nai B’rith Magazine , December 12, 2016
Video
Becoming an All-of-a-Kind Jewish Historian National Jewish Book Award — Acceptance Speech Gratz College Shusterman Lecture (September 30, 2020)100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment In conversation with Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Moment Magazine, August 19, 2020)Hadassah Magazine Discussion Group Presents “Votes for Women” (July 22, 2020)Interview with Zioness founder Amanda Berman (July 15, 2020)National Archives, in conversation with Wendy Turman (May 23, 2019)Pamela Nadell Discusses “American Jewish Women” (American University Department of History, with Professor Justin Jacobs, April 22, 2019)Rethinking the History of American Jewish Women ( Jewish Women’s Archive, with Judith Rosenbaum, April 1, 2019)C-SPAN Book TV at Porter Square Books (taped March 27, 2019)American Jewish History: The State of the Field (World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, August 8, 2017)Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Opening Plenary Honoring Blu Greenberg (Jewish Broadcasting Service, broadcast February 24, 2017)Women of Reform Judaism Centennial Symposium: “The Synagog shall hear the Call of the Sister” (New York, June 2, 2013)Jewish Experience During the Civil War (National Archives, Washington, DC, C-SPAN, May 27, 2010)
Audio
It’s been 5 decades since the first female rabbi was ordained in the U.S. (NPR Morning Edition, May 31, 2022)What is Jewish Studies For? Identity/Crisis Podcast (with Yehuda Kurtzer and Shaul Magid, July 1, 2021)Judaism Unbound (August 28, 2020)The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen on Bella Abzug (August 18, 2020)New Books Network (with Ronnie Grinberg, June 1, 2020)Unorthodox Podcast Episode 193 with Pamela Nadell on America’s Jewish Women Pamela Nadell on the History of Jewish Women in America (with Dan Mariaschin, CEO, B’nai B’rith International, May 2, 2019)New Books Network (with Lindsay Jackson, April 16, 2019)Interfaith Voices: “The Gay Issue” in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (July 6, 2012)Interfaith Voices: Many Branches, One Faith (March 2, 2012)Women Rabbis: NPR All Things Considered (Interviewed by Jacki Lyden, June 2, 2002)
My Articles online
The Best Memoirs Why have Jewish suffragists been left out of history? (The Forward , August 18, 2020)VP Pick Kamala Harris stands on many women’s shoulders, especially Bella Abzug (The Conversation , August 13, 2020)“In a perfectly just republic’–Bella Abzug, born a century ago–would have been president (The Conversation, July 21, 2020)The Pioneers–The Oldest Jewish Women’s Book Club in America (Paper Brigade )In quarantine, finding inspiration in the lives of great American Jewish women (The Forward , March 31, 2020)President Trump’s Violent Threats Against Migrants Betray American Ideals (Washington Post , October 3, 2019)Why We Were Overdue for a Fierce Debate About Anti-Semitism in America (Washington Post, March 7, 2019)What I learned from Keeping a List of Every Book I Ever Read (Literary Hub , April 24, 2019)The Politics of Women’s History (Lilith , Spring 2019)Feminism, American Style: Jewish Women and the Making of a Revolution ( Ruderman Program in American Jewish Studies, University of Haifa, in English and Hebrew, 2017)From the President, Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2017) , AJS Perspectives From the President, Association for Jewish Studies (Spring 2017) , AJS Perspectives From the President, Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2016) , AJS Perspectives From the President, Association for Jewish Studies (Spring/Summer 2016) , AJS Perspectives Jews Were Ethnics Before They Came to America (Stanford University, Berman Jewish Policy Archive, 2016)Rabbi, Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit: For Orthodox Jewish Women, What’s In a Title? (Sightings , University of Chicago Divinity School, 2016)Sisters in Arms: Jewish Women in the Civil War (Heritage: Magazine of the American Jewish Historical Society , Winter 2014).March: The Month for Making Women’s Histories (NYU Press Blog, 2013)
Miscellaneous
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