Deborah Dash Moore

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and professor of Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, specializing in twentieth-century urban Jewish history. Three of her monographs form a trilogy, moving from studying second-generation New York Jews to examining the lives of Jewish American soldiers in World War II, and culminating in a history of migration that carried big-city Jews to Miami and Los Angeles after the war. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004) served as the basis for a documentary. Her recent book, Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Mid-Century New York (2023), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, extends her interest to photography. She is the coeditor, with Nurith Gertz, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.