Paula Hyman, American professor of modern Jewish history (Yale University), died she was 65.

Paula Ellen Hyman^[1was the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and president of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 2004 to 2008  died she was 65..^[2][3] She also served as the first female dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1986.^[4] She received a PhD from Columbia University in 1975.

 (September 30, 1946 – December 15, 2011) 

Hyman's research interests included topics in modern European and American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on the history of women and gender. In addition to several books on French Jewry, she has written widely on Jewish women’s history. Among her books are The Jewish Woman in America, Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History, and the two-volume encyclopedia Jewish Women in America, which she co-edited with Deborah Dash Moore. She also edited and introduced Puah Rakovsky’s My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland. She was also one of the founders of the Jewish feminist group Ezrat Nashim in 1971.

Works

• "Recent Trends in European Jewish Historiography," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 77, No. 2, June 2005
• The Jews of Modern France (University of California Press, 1998)
• Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women (University of Washington Press, 1995)
• "The Dreyfus Affair: The Visual and the Historical," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 61, No. 1, March 1989
• "The History of European Jewry: Recent Trends in the Literature" The Journal of Modern History Vol. 54, No. 2, June 1982
• "Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902," American Jewish History Vol. 70, No. 1, September 1980
• The Jewish Woman in America with co-authors Charlotte Baum and Sonya Michel (Plume, 1976)
• "Joseph Salvador: Proto-Zionist or Apologist for Assimilation?" Jewish Social Studies Vol. 34, No. 1, January 1972

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