Pamela Nadell, Ph.D.

Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University. Her book, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today (2019) won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s “Jewish Book of the Year.” She is currently writing a book about the history of American antisemitism to be published in 2025 by W.W. Norton.

July 11, 2024

Episode 7: The Houses We Live In

In post-war America, Bess Myerson became the first Jewish woman to win the Miss America competition, but she confronted bigotry and exclusion far more daunting than any pageant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of urban neig…