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Rachel Gordan wins Fellowship Year at Harvard for 2024-25

Professor Rachel Gordan, the Bud Shorstein Professor for American Jewish Culture and Society in the Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has been honored with a fellowship at Harvard University for academic year 2024-25. It has been a fine year for Gordan. Her award-winning book ˆPostwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American appeared with Oxford University […]

“When ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ made Jewish Oscars history”, an article by Rachel Gordon

In 1948, when the cinematic version of her story, “Gentleman’s Agreement,” received the Oscar for best picture, Laura Z. Hobson was a 47-year-old, divorced, Jewish single mother living in Manhattan. The success of “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which was serialized in Cosmopolitan in 1946, published by Simon & Schuster in 1947 and produced as a film by […]

Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral

Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral fellowship from Fordham University’s Department of Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library in summer 2019. She presented at Columbia University’s conference “Antisemitism in the Americas” in May 2019, and at the “Jews in the Americas” symposium at the University of British Columbia in July 2019. Gordan participated in the […]