Location:
Jewish History and Migration
Rebecca Kobrin received her B.A. from Yale (1994), and her M.Phil. (1995), and Ph.D. (2002) from the Universityof Pennsylvania. Professor Kobrin served as the Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University (2002–2004) and the American Academy of Jewish Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University (2004–2006). Her area of specialty is Jewish immigration history, which she approaches through a transnational lens. Her research interests span from the fields of urban history to American religion and diaspora studies.
