David Stern | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) |
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Discipline | Hebrew literature |
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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]
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]
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