About Me
Pamela Nadell, professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in women’s and Gender History at American University, is a historian specializing in American Jewish history antisemitism. She authored America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s “Jewish Book of the Year.” Her new book Antisemitism, An American Tradition will be published on October 14, 2025 (W.W. Norton) and was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award.
Nadell also wrote Women Who Would be Rabbis, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies, and has consulted for museums, including Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Pittsburgh’s rebuild of the Tree of Life Congregation, and Tel Aviv’s ANU: The Museum of the Jewish People. A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she lectures widely and teaches courses on antisemitism, the Holocaust, and American Jewish History. She has testified before Congress three times and was the fourth witness in the congressional hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and University of Pennsylvania.
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Pages
- Antisemitism Book
- Books
- Antisemitism, an American Tradition
- America’s Jewish Women
- American Jewish Women’s History
- Conservative Judaism in America
- Making Women’s Histories
- New Essays in American Jewish History
- Women and American Judaism
- Women Who Would be Rabbis
- Three Hundred Fifty Years: An Album of American Jewish Memory
- Events
- Other Writings
- Media
- About Me
- Contact Me
Topics
Events
- September 30, 2026, Annual Helen and Daniel Sonenshine Lecture: Sarah Hurwitz and Pamela Nadell, American University, Washington, DC
- October 5, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Book Talk, Michigan State
- October 13, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Book Talk, Towson University
- October 13, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Book Talk, The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore
- October 19, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Book Talk, Yale University
Past Events
- July 29, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Brandeis University Hartman Family Foundation Educators’ Institute on Israel and Antisemitism
- July 8, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center Summer Workshop on Navigating the Holocaust for Educators, Milwaukee
- July 8, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Unpacking American Antisemitism at 250
- June 29, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Brandeis University Frieze Family Summer Institute on Antisemitism in Higher Education
- June 22, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, George Washington University Institute on Antisemitism and Jewish Inclusion in Educational Settings, Washington, DC
News
- Senate Education Panel Hearing to Address ‘Antisemitic Disruptions on Campus’
- Scholars Have Told Important Jewish Stories with the NEH’s Support. What Happens to Them Now?
- Guthrie’s three-act ‘Lehman Trilogy’ charts one immigrant family’s epic rise and catastrophic fall
- Antisemitism Seeing Global Rise
- Pamela Nadell’s History: Professor, Author, Researcher
- Q&A: Antisemitism in America
- How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel
- Hollywood is Failing Jewish-Americans Despite a History Together – Opinion
- The 4th to Testify: Congressional witness Pamela Nadell on the US Antisemitism Crisis
- New Study Highlights Campus Antisemitism ‘Hot Spots’
- What Jewish College Students Have to Say About the Campus Climate
- A Brief History of Antisemitism in U.S. Higher Education
- The Gaza Crisis is Stoking Antisemitism in the U.S.
- Antisemitism on Elon Musk’s X is Surging and Dredging Up Many Ancient, Defamatory Themes of Blaming Jews
September 30, 2026, Annual Helen and Daniel Sonenshine Lecture: Sarah Hurwitz and Pamela Nadell, American University, Washington, DC
/in UncategorizedJuly 29, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Brandeis University Hartman Family Foundation Educators’ Institute on Israel and Antisemitism
/in Past EventsJJuly 29, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Brandeis University Hartman Family Foundation Educators’ Institute on Israel and Antisemitism. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
Hasan Piker is gaslighting American Jews. As a historian of antisemitism, I can tell.
/in NewsJewish Telegraphic Agency published an op-ed by historian Pamela Nadell arguing that streamer Hasan Piker’s rhetoric — denying Jews the right to name antisemitism, conflating Zionism with Judaism, and invoking classic antisemitic tropes — amounts to gaslighting American Jews.
July 8, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center Summer Workshop on Navigating the Holocaust for Educators, Milwaukee
/in Past EventsJuly 8, 2026. Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center Summer Workshop on Navigating the Holocaust for Educators, Milwaukee. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
July 8, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Unpacking American Antisemitism at 250
/in Past EventsJuly 8, 2026. July 8, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center Public Program, Milwaukee. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
June 29, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Brandeis University Frieze Family Summer Institute on Antisemitism in Higher Education
/in Past EventsJune 29, 2026. Brandeis University Frieze Family Summer Institute on Antisemitism in Higher Education. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
June 22, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, George Washington University Institute on Antisemitism and Jewish Inclusion in Educational Settings, Washington, DC
/in Past EventsMay 28, 2026. George Washington University Institute on Antisemitism and Jewish Inclusion in Educational Settings, Washington, DC. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
June 15, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Annual Meeting of the Council of American Jewish Museums, Keynote Speaker, Detroit
/in Past EventsJune 3, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Keynote, American Jewish Press Association annual meeting, NYC
/in Past EventsMay 28, 2026. Keynote, American Jewish Press Association annual meeting, in NYC. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.
May 28, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Hosted by American Jewish Committee, Houston Region Annual Meeting
/in Past EventsMay 28, 2026. Book talk at the American Jewish Committee, Houston Region Annual Meeting. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.