Laura Arnold Leibman

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...

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,...