Gordan, Rachel

Rachel Gordan is an assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies at the University of Florida, where she is the Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society. Her first book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2024 and was awarded a 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. As a scholar of American religion, Gordan researches Judaism and Jewish culture from the early 20th century to the present, with a particular focus on the immediate post-World War II era, middlebrow culture, and American Jewish literary history.
Abstract: “Ain’t no such thing as a white Jew”: Understanding the Jew in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn