Karla Goldman

Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work

Karla Goldman

Karla Goldman

Degrees

  • B.A., History, 1982, Yale University, New Haven, CT;
  • M.A., Am. History, 1986, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
  • PhD, Am. History, 1993, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

BioSketch

Professor Karla Goldman's research focuses on the history of American Jewish experience with special attention to the history of American Jewish communities and the evolving roles and contributions of American Jewish women. She directs the Jewish Communal Leadership Program, a collaborative effort between the School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

Dr. Goldman's work places American Jews within their broader social contexts, tracing the construction of American Jewish identities as a function of choices around class, religion, gender, race, and politics and the complicated place of Jews as both outsiders and insiders in American society. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard University Press, 2000)which explores the role of women in the development of 18th and 19th century American Judaism. Her current work focuses on the history of the Jews of Cincinnati and the Jewish experience of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Professor Goldman previously taught American Jewish history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and served as historian in residence at the Jewish Women's Archive in Brookline, Massachusetts.


Karla Goldman, Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work
Email kargold@umich.edu
Location
Room: 3810 SSWB
Phone: (734) 763-6583
Fax: (734) 763-3372
 University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Goldman, K. (2008). Women in the development of American Judaism. In S. H. Norwood & E. G. Pollack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of American Jewish history (Vol. 1, pp. 106-110). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Inc.
Goldman, K. (2008). Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites. In L. B. Strauss & M. Brenner (Eds.), Mediating modernity: Challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world, Essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer (pp.195-204). Wayne State University Press.
Goldman, K. (2008). Jewish lenses on Katrina. Journal of Southern Religion, After the Storm: Special Issue.
Goldman, K. (2007). Women in Reform Judaism: Between rhetoric and reality. In R. Prell & D. Weinburg (Eds.), Women remaking American Judaism (pp. 109-133). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Goldman, K. (2007). Women and the synagogue. Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., Vol. 19, pp. 360-362). Thomson Gale's Macmillan Reference USA.
Goldman, K. (2007). The limits of imagination: White Christian civilization and the construction of American Jewish womanhood in the 1890s. In J. Wertheimer (Ed.), Imagining the American Jewish community (pp. 191-211). Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press.
Goldman, K. (2007). The American Jewess. Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 53). Thomson Gale's Macmillan Reference USA.
Goldman, K. (2007). Simon, Carrie Obendorfer. Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., Vol. 18, pp. 610-611). Thomson Gale's Macmillan Reference USA.