Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, and codirector of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The author of eight books and numerous articles on the changing Jewish family, show more intermarriage, transformations in gender roles, Jewish education, and American Jewish sociology, literature, and culture, Fishman received the 2014 Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. show less