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I Spy With Rebecca Gratz's Eye

A Young Persons Guide to Jewish Life in Early America

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Dept. of English
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202-8199

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This site was created by Professor Laura A. Leibman of Reed College. Her scholarship focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is the author The Art of the Jewish Family (BGC 2020) and Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life (Vallentine Mitchell, 2012), which won a National Jewish Book Award, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, and was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013. Laura has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Laura is currently at work on a book that traces the story of a multiracial family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean and became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.

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