Expertise
American Jewish History
Biography
Kate Rosenblatt is a historian of American Jews. She earned a BA in American history from Columbia University (2006), a BA in Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages from the Jewish Theological Seminary (2006), and both an MA in Jewish Studies (2009) and a PhD in American history (2016) from the University of Michigan.
Kate's first book, Cooperative Battlegrounds: Farmers, Workers, and the Search for Economic Alternatives (under contract, History of American Capitalism series, Columbia University) details the efforts of a wide swath of Americans – workers, farmers, religious clergy and their laities, labor activists, reforms, state and federal bureaucrats, and others – to put forward an alternative expression of American capitalism by way of producer and consumer cooperatives across the twentieth century.
She is also at work on a second book on the post-World War II American Jewish left.
Selected Publications
- “Continuity: The History of an American Jewish Communal Project and Its Sexual Politics,” with Lila Corwin Berman and Ronit Stahl, in American Jewish History vol. 104, no. 2/3 (April/July 2020): 167-194.
- "Rethinking American Jewish Liberalism: Jewish Communists and Jewish Life, 1946-1956", in Beth Wenger, Deborah Dash Moore, and Lila Corwin Berman, eds.,The Future of American Jewish Pasts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026): 63-78.
Courses Taught
- American Jewish Experience
- American Religion and Law