Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.

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 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 serves as editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology of original sources translated into English from the biblical period to 2005.