Sylvia Barack Fishman

SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN is an Emerita Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University and the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness and Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.

Fishman has received the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and the Belkin Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University. She earned her BA from Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, her MA from New York University, and her PhD from Washington University, and served as founding co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Sylvia lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Sylvia Barack Fishman’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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