1. Pamela S Nadell was born on 1951 and is an American historian, researcher, and author focusing on Jewish history.
12 Facts About Pamela Nadell
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Pamela Nadell spent her junior year abroad studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Pamela Nadell continued her studies at Ohio State University where she earned her master's degree in Jewish history and doctorate in American Jewish history.
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Pamela Nadell's scholarship focuses on American Jewish history, especially the history of American Jewish women.
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Pamela Nadell subsequently edited volumes including Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives, and American Jewish Women's History: A Reader, and authored others, including Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination and America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today.
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Pamela Nadell's work brings to the fore Jewish women previously ignored in most history books.
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Pamela Nadell writes about the colonial era matriarch Grace Nathan and Nathan's great-granddaughter poet Emma Lazarus, about labor organizer Bessie Hillman, and about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Pamela Nadell discusses Jewish women's activism in the labor, birth control, suffrage, civil rights, and feminist movements.
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Pamela Nadell has shared her knowledge of Jewish women in America with the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, including the stories of success highlighted in the "Only In America" gallery.
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Pamela Nadell penned another letter as president, along with the Association for Jewish Studies executive board to Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer expressing concern over amendments made to the Israeli Entry Into Israel Law.
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Pamela Nadell voiced similar free-speech concerns in 2017 before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses.
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On December 5,2023, Pamela Nadell testified in front of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, along with the presidents of MIT and Harvard, at a hearing about antisemitism on university campuses.