Laura Arnold Leibman
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Laura Arnold Leibman

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Laura Arnold Leibman writes about religion and the daily lives of women and children in the early Atlantic World and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is a Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (USA), the Vice President of Publications for the Association of Jewish Studies, and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University, a Fulbright scholar at the University of Utrecht, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Her book The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Bard Graduate Center, 2020) won three National Jewish Book Awards. Her earlier book Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life (2012) won a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and a National Jewish Book Award. Her latest book Once We Were Slaves (Oxford UP, 2021) is about an early multiracial Jewish family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean and became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.
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