EDITORS
ABOUT THE EDITORS
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Barbara Vinick
received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University and conducted
post-doctoral research in Human Development at Harvard University. As a
research gerontologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs and
Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of Boston University,
she authored and co-authored books and articles about family life,
including marriage, based on hundreds of interviews she conducted.
Barbara is secretary of Kulanu (“All of Us” in Hebrew), an
organization that supports isolated and emerging Jewish communities
around the world. Her position with Kulanu has allowed her access to and
knowledge about Jewish communities worldwide, many far-flung and
little-known. As a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
of Brandeis University, she collected and edited stories for Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World (published by Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America) and the award-winning anthology Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World (published by Indiana University Press co-edited with Shulamit Reinharz).
Shulamit Reinharz
is Professor Emerita of the Jacob Potofsky Chair in Sociology at
Brandeis University. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned a Ph.D.
from Brandeis. Following a faculty position at the University of
Michigan department of community psychology, she relocated to Brandeis,
where she rose to full professor and became director of the Women's
Studies Program there. At Brandeis she created a joint M.A. program in
Jewish and women’s studies and collaborated with other organizations to
hold numerous international conferences. She founded the
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, winner of the excellence award from the
National Council of Centers on Women, whose mission is to develop new
ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide. A founding editor of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish and Women’s Studies,
she created Brandeis’ Women’s Studies Research Center and at the same
time the Kniznick Gallery of Feminist Art, also at Brandeis. Shulamit is
author or editor of 14 books that cover a wide range of topics
including qualitative and feminist research methods, kibbutz life,
Jewish intermarriage around the world, and women and Zionism.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Barbara Vinick
received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University and conducted
post-doctoral research in Human Development at Harvard University. As a
research gerontologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs and
Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of Boston University,
she authored and co-authored books and articles about family life,
including marriage, based on hundreds of interviews she conducted.
Barbara is secretary of Kulanu (“All of Us” in Hebrew), an
organization that supports isolated and emerging Jewish communities
around the world. Her position with Kulanu has allowed her access to and
knowledge about Jewish communities worldwide, many far-flung and
little-known. As a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
of Brandeis University, she collected and edited stories for Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World (published by Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America) and the award-winning anthology Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World (published by Indiana University Press co-edited with Shulamit Reinharz).
