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Nora Rubel
Assistant Professor
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Religion And Classics
Areas of expertise: American Judaism, Religion and Foodways, Black-Jewish Relations
Press contact:
Valerie Alhart
valerie.alhart@rochester.edu
585.276.3256
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Biography
Professor Rubel specializes in American religious history; American Judaism; ultra-Orthodox Judaism in America; African American religion; religion and foodways; ethnicity and immigration; new religious movements; Judaism and gender; Jewish-American literature; Black-Jewish relations; religion and popular culture. Her new book is entitled Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Columbia University Press).