Barbara L. Epstein (1929 – June 16, 2006) was a Jewish-American journalist, historian and sociologist. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent or religion who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ...

She was the co-editor and founder of the biweekly magazine The New York Review of Books. An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYREV) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ...

Rea Hederman, publisher of The New York Review of Books, noted, "Barbara Epstein, as co-editor of The New York Review, was equally fierce as a protector of those rights and causes in which she believed as she was a champion and mentor for younger writers. She worked long and tirelessly on articles intended to expose various injustices and on articles meant to present new talent to readers. She had a particular love for the arts and that love was infused in articles published by the Review. In the end, her work and that of her co-editor Robert Silvers—the only editors the Review has ever had—established a publication of lasting importance."

She was also a history and sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Thereby she focused on (Jewish) social movements. The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most famous social movements of the 20th century. ...

Barbara Epstein died from lung cancer at the age of 76. Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. ...

Publications

• The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth Century America, 1981, Wesleyan University Press
• Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, 1991, University of California Press
• Cultural Politics and Social Movements, 1995, Temple University Press, essays, together with Marcy Darnovsky en Richard Flacks

An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ...

External links

• The New York Review of Books
• University of California, Santa Cruz