Daniela Goodman Rabner

Daniela Goodman Rabner is a PhD student in the Department of History. She studies the history of Jewish labor and immigration in the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire. Daniela received her BA in History and Jewish Studies from Barnard College. After finishing her bachelor’s degree, Daniela received a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, researching the history of Jewish women’s participation in the Argentine sex work economy from 1890 to 1930. Her research interests include Jewish imagination and memory in the Russian Empire, labor and mass politics in the Pale of Settlement, immigration and illicit economic trade, and Yiddish literature. 

As a proud first-generation college graduate, she is excited to extend solidarity and support to other FLI students.