Scholarly Work

Lara Rabinovitch is a Joint PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Department of History at New York University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which utilizes a transnational and comparative approach to both North American and east European Jewish history by tracing the first major wave of migration of Jews from Romania to the New World and their collective identification in two major cities of settlement for this group. For the academic year, 2011-2012, she is the Quinn Fellow at NYU's History Department.

Her other work includes:
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Wayne State University Press: 2012), Co-Editor

CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures / Revue des cultures culinaries au Canada (McGill University), Managing Editor, 2008-2009

Additional publications in Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (March 2011), the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (March 2008), the American Jewish Archives Journal (2007), Canadian Jewish Studies (2007), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Fall 2006), and Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (Winter/Spring 2006).  

For more on her publishing record, other fellowships, courses taught, or her Curriculum Vitae, please contact her at lara@lararabinovitch.com.

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