Jane Gerber
Jane S. Gerber | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College(BA) Harvard University(MA) Columbia University(PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, Researcher, and Professor |
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Jane S. Gerber(born 1938) is a professor ofJewish historyand director of theInstitute for Sephardic Studiesat theCity University of New York.
Life and education
[edit]Gerber, néeJane Satlowwas born in 1938 to Israeli mother Elise Kliegman and father David Satlow. Growing up in an observant family, she and her two sisters attended The Center Academy at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. In 1955, she finished high school and enrolled atWellesley Collegestudying the works of French novelist,Marcel Proust.[1]
After receiving her undergraduate education, she continued on atHarvard Universitywhere she began to study the relationship between Jewish and Islamic history. She met her future husband, Roger A. Gerber,at Harvard. She and Gerber moved to New York and married in 1965.[2]In New York, Gerber continued her work on Jewish-Islamic History atColumbia Universityand earned herPh.D.on the interactions between the local population ofFez, Morocco,and the recently immigratedMegorashim.[1]
Gerber has three daughters.[3]
Academic career
[edit]Gerber teaches classes inClassics,History,and Masters level Liberal Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies at theCity University of New York,specializing in Sephardic history.[4]She is director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies.[5]
Gerber's books includeJews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic ExperienceandJewish Society in Fez.[6]Gerber served as president of theAssociation for Jewish Studiesfrom 1981 to 1983.[7]
Works
[edit]- Berger, David,ed. (1986). "Anti-Semitism and the Muslim World".History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism.The Jewish Publication Society.ISBN0-8276-0636-2.
- The Jews of Spain: A History of Sephardic Experience.Free Press. 1992.ISBN978-0029115732.
- De Lange, Nicholas, ed. (1997). "My Heart is in the East".The Illustrated History of the Jewish people.Harcourt Brace.ISBN978-0151003020.
- (1997)Jewish Society in Fez, 1450-1700: Studies in Communal and Economic Life (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times)ISBN9004058206
Her one-volume history of Sephardic Jews of Spain was described as "excellent" and a reviewer noted her strengths in synthesizing much recent research about this people.[8]
Awards
[edit]- 1993: National Jewish Book Award in the Sephardic Studies category forJews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience[9]
References
[edit]- ^abFrancesconi, Federica; Mirvis, Stanley; Smollett, Brian, eds. (August 20, 2018).From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times.BRILL.doi:10.1163/9789004376717.ISBN9789004376700.
- ^"Miss Jane E. Satlow Becomes Affianced".The New York Times.August 6, 1964.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedAugust 5,2019.
- ^"WEDDINGS; Dina Gerber, Marshall Huebner".New York Times.September 21, 1992. p. 1.
- ^"Faculty Directory: G".Archived fromthe originalon June 13, 2011.RetrievedMay 5,2007.
- ^Institute for Sephardic Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, City University of New York, 2014, accessed 20 February 2014
- ^amazon entry forJews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience
- ^"AJS at 40".associationforjewishstudies.org.RetrievedAugust 4,2019.
- ^Renée Levine Melammed, Review: "The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience,by Jane S. Gerber ",AJS Review,Vol. 20, No. 1 (1995), pp. 219-222, Published by: Cambridge University Press, accessed 20 February 2014
- ^"Past Winners".Jewish Book Council.RetrievedJanuary 25,2020.
External links
[edit]- The Institute for Sephardic Studies at The City University of New York
- Works by Jane GerberatOpen Library
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- American women historians
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- Harvard University alumni
- City College of New York alumni
- Wellesley College alumni
- 21st-century American Jews
- 20th-century American women