My Articles
Journal Articles
“The Newport Jews and the Anti-Russian Sentiment in St. Louis,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, forthcoming 2023.
“The Singer Siblings: Different Views of Hassidic Life,” Women in Judaism, vol. 18, no. 2, 2022. https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v18i2.39677.
“A Failed Jewish Agricultural Colony in the Ozarks: Lessons Learned and Forgotten,” OzarksWatch, series 2, vol. 9, no. 2, 2020, pp. 42- 47.
“Judaism and Extraterrestrials: Theological Lessons from Science Fiction.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1200-1217, https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12847.
“Kinky Friedman and His Influence on Jewish American Music,” Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 33-53.
“Local Reaction to the Anti-Semitic Action of Glenn Frazier Miller,” Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, vol. 7, 2017, pp. 42-57.
“Jewish Women Homesteaders on the Plains,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 2017.
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“Translator as Storyteller: A Study of the Book of Esther,” Journal of Translation, vol. 9, no. 1, 2013, pp. 23-29. http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/jot.
“Finding and Saving a History: Impact on a Community,” Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, vol. 4, 2012, pp. 109-113.
“H. Berkowitz and S.S. Cohon: Two men battle over one haggadah,” American Jewish Archives Journal, vol. 58, no. 1& 2, 2006, pp. 103-119.
“‘But they’re JUST people’: Teaching Jewish American (auto)biography in a Jewishly impoverished university,” The Journal of Religion and Society, vol. 6, 2004,
“Pilgrimages of Nostalgia: Patterns of Jewish Travel in the United States,” with Dimitri Ioannides, Tourism Recreation Research, vol.27, no. 2, 2002, pp. 17-26.
“The Transformation of the Haggadah’s Preface as Influenced by the Development of Public Education in Europe and the United States,” with Stephen M. Cohen. SHOFAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2000,
pp. 27-44.
“The Library That Began in a Hay Wagon,” OzarksWatch, vol. 12, no. 1&2, 1999, pp. 21-24.
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“A Lost Liturgy,” CCAR Journal, Spring 1999, pp. 79-83.
“Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: Using a Jewish Autobiography in a non-Jewish Class,” Kansas English, vol. 83, no. 1, 1997-8, pp. 45-54.
Encyclopedia
Articles
“Carol Nadelson,” Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Jewish Women’s Archive, 2021, jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nadelson-carol.
“Natalie Portman,” Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Jewish Women’s Archive, 2021, jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/portman-natalie.
“Chaim Potok,” The Jewish Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Greenwood Pub., 2008, pp. 321-322.
“Leonard Nimoy,” The Jewish Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Greenwood Pub., 2008, pp. 296-297.
“William Shatner,” The Jewish Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Greenwood Pub., 2008, pp. 368-369.