Scholars in Session: “Advice Columns and the American Press” with Ayelet Brinn

Ayelet Brinn is a scholar of Jewish and American history whose work focuses on gender, Yiddish studies, and popular culture. She holds an MA/MLS from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2022, she joined the University of Hartford faculty as the Philip D. Feltman Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History and The Associate Director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Previously she held fellowships at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Katz Center for Judaic Studies, and at Fordham University and Columbia University. Her first book, (https://nyupress.org/9781479817665/a-revolution-in– type/) was published by New York University Press in November 2023 and was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist. The book just won the 2025 Jordan Schnirzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. A current Institute Fellow at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ayelet is currently working on a project about the Espionage Act and the censorship of the American Yiddish press during World War I.

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