Kirsten Fermaglich

Kirsten Fermaglich is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of A Rosenberg By Any Other Name (NYU Press, 2018), which won the Saul Viener Prize for the best book in American Jewish history from the American Jewish Historical Society in 2019, and American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Brandeis University Press, 2006); with Lisa Fine, she also co-edited the Norton Critical Edition of Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (2013). She is currently co-editor of the journal American Jewish History, along with Daniel Soyer and Adam Mendelsohn.

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