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Sandra Fox

Stanford University

Sandra Fox is a historian of American Jewry, youth and childhood, and postwar Yiddish culture. Currently a Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow in education and religion at Stanford University, her work considers the lived experience of campers in American Jewish summer camps, and traces the transformation of Yiddishism in postwar America. She received her PhD from New York University's History and Hebrew Judaic Studies departments in 2018. Sandra is the founder and executive producer of Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish. In 2021-2022 she served as a peer review editor at In geveb.

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