CONTRIBUTOR

Sarah Imhoff

Sarah Imhoff is Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, race, and disability. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism [iupress.org](Indiana University Press, 2017), The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist [dukeupress.edu] (Duke University Press, 2022) and, with Susannah Heschel, The Woman Question in Jewish Studies [press.princeton.edu] (Princeton University Press, 2025). She is also the founding co-editor of the journal American Religion [american-religion.org].
 

RELATED ARTICLES

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Review of Men of Valor and Anxiety: Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity by Mariusz Kalczewiak

Sarah Imhoff

Throughout, Men of Valor and Anxiety pays sophisticated attention to the pushes and pulls of masculinity: it narrates neither a world in which a man simply goes out and puts together whatever kind of gender he wants, nor a world where there is a single, fixed masculinity without deviations. 

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Review of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories, translated by Jessica Kirzane

Sarah Imhoff

The women in A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories are complex, multifaceted characters, and they do not uniformly fixate on love.

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