Sylvia Barack Fishman (born December 28, 1942) is an American

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

, Co-Director of the

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

, and a board member of JOFA, the

Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) is an Open Orthodox Jewish organization providing educational services on women's issues, with the aim of expanding "the spiritual, ritual, intellectual, and political opportunities for women within ...

. She writes about Jewish life in America.

Books

*''The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness'' (Jewish Lights, 2008) *''Double or Nothing?" Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage'' (Brandeis, 2004) *''Jewish Life and American Culture'' (SUNY Press, 2000) *''A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community'' (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life, 1995) *''Relatively speaking: Constructing identity in Jewish and mixed married families'' (David W. Belin lecture in American Jewish affairs, 2002)

Awards and honors

Marshall Sklare Award The Marshall Sklare Award is an annual honor of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ). The ASSJ seeks to recognize "a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. ...

of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014 (2014) *Vice President Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (2008 - 2011) *Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1995 - 1996) *National Jewish Book Award Honor Book, contemporary Jewish life category (A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community) (1994) *Samuel Belkin Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Yeshiva University (1991) *Danforth Graduate Fellowship for Women (1974 - 1978)

References

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