Participant Info
- First Name
- Sharon
- Last Name
- Musher
- Country
- United States
- State
- mushers@stockton.edu
- Affiliation
- Stockton University
- Website URL
- https://sharonmusher.com/
- Keywords
- Jewish women, motherhood, social history, cultural history, New Deal, oral history,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sharon Ann Musher is Professor of History at Stockton University. She writes and teaches social, cultural, and oral history with a focus on the New Deal, Jewish women, and motherhood. Sharon lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two of her three daughters, and her dog.
- Recent Publications
Her most recent book Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth Century Palestine (New York University Press, 2025) draws on the records of her grandmother, a daughter of Mordecai Kaplan – founder of Reconstructionism — to show how travel to Palestine in the interwar period shaped a cohort of American Jewish women who went on to center Zionism in American Jewish institutions and communities. Sharon’s first book, Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture, traces a range of aesthetic visions that flourished during the 1930s to outline the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Public History, Women
