Carole B. Balin
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Rabbi Carole B. Balin PhD |
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| Born |
Carole Beth Balin 1964 (age 52–53) Andover, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. history, Wellesley College, 1986 M.A. Hebrew letters, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1989 M. Phil., Columbia University, 1994 PhD, history, Columbia University, 1998 |
| Occupation | Professor of Jewish history |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Employer | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion |
| Notable work | To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia (2003) |
| Spouse(s) | Michael E. Gertzman |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Theodore G. Balin Marcia Balin |
Carole Beth Balin (born 1964) is a Reform Jewish rabbi and professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. Her research interests include Eastern European and American Jewish history, the history of Reform Judaism, and gender studies. She received laudatory reviews for her 2003 book To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia, and has co-edited two other books. She is a co-curator of "Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age", a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian-affiliated National Museum of American Jewish History and the Moving Traditions Jewish non-profit.
Carole Beth Balin grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, the daughter of Theodore G. Balin, a defense engineer, and Marcia Balin, a telemarketing sales trainer. She became bat mitzvah in 1977; her mother celebrated her own bat mitzvah in 1979.
She earned her bachelor's degree in history at Wellesley College in 1986. Her senior honors thesis was "Unraveling an American-Jewish Synthesis: Rosa Sonneschein's The American Jewess, 1895–1899". In 1989 she earned a master's degree in Hebrew letters at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, followed by rabbinic ordination in 1991 at the same institute. In 1994 she earned a Master of Philosophy degree at Columbia University, and in 1998 completed her PhD in history at Columbia. Her doctoral advisors were Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Michael Stanislawski.
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