Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is an American feminist sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and a board member of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She writes about Jewish life in America.
Books
- The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness
- Double or Nothing?" Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage
- Jewish Life and American Culture
- A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community
- ''Relatively speaking: Constructing identity in Jewish and mixed married families''
Awards and honors
- Marshall Sklare Award of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014
- Vice President Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
- Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
- National Jewish Book Award Honor Book, contemporary Jewish life category
- Samuel Belkin Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Yeshiva University
- Danforth Graduate Fellowship for Women