Laura Arnold Leibman

Check out this lovely review of my new book by a scholar I admire so much, Jenna Weissman Joselit! https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/artic...

In The Art of the Jewish Family, I examine five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years...

What sets apart college-level writing from the kind of research papers you did in High School? In this video you will learn about the...

Although others have spoken at length about Saki's magnificent academic accomplishments and the extremely important way he shaped the...

Deep in the Surinamese jungle lies the ruins of what was once the prospering plantation town of Jodensavanne--Jew's Savanne. Just past...

For early Americans and Europeans alike, cosmetics carried spiritual and moral messages. In this post I look to three examples of the use...

"Save our desperate daughters," proclaims the cover article in issue 521 of Mishpacha [family] magazine, an English-language,...

What can baths tell us, then, about the everyday lives and challenges women faced in early America? In this post, I move beyond an...

This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we...

Last week's American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) Biennial Scholars Conference on "Jews and Judaism in the American World of...

In my recent post on religion and children's toys, I noted that orthodox Jews have taken advantage of and adapted technology. A great...

Why is it that Christian Fundamentalists have had better kitsch than Charedi Jews? Will this always be the case? To answer this question,...

Do you dress your religious beliefs? Some American religions (Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, to name a few) include doctrines about how...

The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...

The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...

My latest post on the Religion in American History Group Blog on a recent Language, Media, and Religion mini-conference and roundtable...

Eclectic low-income housing by Dutch Jewish architect Michel de Klerk. Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam. See more images on twitpic. de...

Notice how the color of the tiling in this 19th century mikveh mimics the beautiful color of the water below. This mikveh was added to...

One of the lovely elements of the older houses (and some newer) in the Old Canal Rings in Amsterdam is the use of stone tablets to...

This webinar will introduce you to what kind of evidence gravestones provide and why scholars value them. This video is a companion to...