Congratulations to Ayelet Brinn, assistant professor of Judaic Studies & History, whose book was recently named a finalist for the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Women’s Studies. Inaugurated in 1950, the National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind and is recognized as the most prestigious. The Awards are intended to recognize authors, and encourage reading, of outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest.
Brinn received the award for her book, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press was published in November of 2023 by New York University Press. It explores complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers.