David Stern (academic)

David M. Stern is an American scholar of Hebrew literature. He is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature at Harvard University.[1]

David Stern
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineHebrew literature
Institutions

Biography

Stern received his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Harvard University.[2] He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was the Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature before joining Harvard's faculty in 2015.[3][4] His work has focused on interpreting works of Jewish literature in their historical and cultural contexts as well as the material history of Jewish literary works, with a specialization in Classical Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew literature.[4]

Stern received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.[5] He is married to Kathryn A. Hellerstein, professor of Jewish studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[6][7]

References
  1. "David Stern – AAJR". Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  2. Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1998). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
  3. katzcenterupenn. "David Stern". Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  4. "David Stern". nelc.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  5. "David Stern". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  6. "Rebecca Stern, Jesse Wenger". The New York Times. 2014-06-22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  7. "Kathryn Hellerstein | Jewish Studies Program". ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
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