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Ms. Tenenbaum received a B.A. from Antioch College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She was the founding director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies concentration and is also affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, Africana Studies, and Jewish Studies. She teaches in a college-in-prison program through the Emerson Prison Initiative at a medium security prison for men, and co-directs Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens, a college program at Clark University for formerly incarcerated people.
Ms. Tenenbaum's research on ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity intersects the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology. Her book, A Credit to their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945, explores the relationship between immigrant Jewish credit networks and ethnic enterprise. Ms. Tenenbaum's co-edited anthology, Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies, provides a critical evaluation of the impact of feminist scholarship in the various fields of Jewish Studies. Ms. Tenenbaum has also published in the area of pedagogy including articles and book chapters on teaching college courses in prison, Jewish Studies, and class inequality, and co-edited a syllabus collection Gender and Jewish Studies: A Curriculum Guide. Ms. Tenenbaum teaches in the areas of race and ethnicity, genocide, Jewish Studies, and gender, and is the recipient of Clark’s Outstanding Teacher Award and Outstanding Academic Advisor Award.Degrees
- Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies & Sociology, Brandeis University, 1986
- M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 1983
- B.A. in Political Science, Antioch College, 1977
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes
Chapter: “Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the Jews in Europe”
Published by Georgetown University Press
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2023
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"Days in the Life of a College-in-Prison Professor"
Emerson Prison Inititative
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Emerson College
October
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2022
Sponsored by Emerson College
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Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach in Prison
Chapter: “Days in the Life of a College in Prison Professor"Published by Brandeis University Press
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2022
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“To Know One’s Chains for What They Are Is Better Than to Deck Them with Flowers"
Published in American Jewish History
April/July
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2020
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Vol. 104
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Issue #2/3
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"Reimagining Holocaust Education on Campus and in the Community"
Association for Jewish Studies
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Washington, DC
December
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2017
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"Jewish Studies and the Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity: A Collaborative Conversation"
Published in Shofar
Summer
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2014
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"Credit with a Little Schnapps"
Published in Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford and The History Press
Fall
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2010
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"It's In My Genes": Biological Discourse and Essentialist Views of Identity Among Contemporary American Jews
Published in The Sociological Quarterly
Summer
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2007
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"Who Rules America"
Published in Teaching Sociology
October
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2006
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"Community Self-Help: San Francisco Jews and the Great Depression"
Published in Jewish Journal of Sociology
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2003
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American Jewish Women's History: A Reader
Chapter: "Borrowers or Lenders Be: Jewish Immigrant Women's Credit Networks"Published by New York University Press
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2003
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"The Vicissitudes of Tolerance: Jewish Faculty and Students at Clark University"
Published in The Massachusetts Historical Review
Fall
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2003
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"Good or Bad for the Jews? Moving Beyond the Continuity Debate"
Published in Contemporary Jewry
Spring
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2000
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Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies
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1994
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ISBN #0-300-06028-9
Yale University Press
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A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945
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1993
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ISBN #0-8143-2287-5
Wayne State University Press
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Awards & Grants
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Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens
Eastern Bank Foundation
Oct. 1, 2024 - Sep. 30, 2025
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Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens
Fred Harris Daniels Foundation
Jan. 1, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024
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Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens
Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant
Jan. 2, 2024 - Jun. 30, 2024
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John W. Lund Clark Community Achievement Award
Clark University
2023
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