Deborah Dash Moore earned her bachelor's degree - BA magna cum laude, with honors in history - from Brandeis University.

Her first book, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981), explores how the children of immigrants created an ethnic world that blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society.

(1994) follows those big city Jews who chose to move to new homes after World War II and examines the type of communities and politics that flourished in these rapidly growing centers.

GI Jews, The Washington Post Best Book of the Year, is a powerful, intimate portrayal of the costs of a conflict that was at once physical, emotional, and spiritual.

Moore's book Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York was published in 2023 by Three Hills, a trade imprint of Cornell University Press.