Eva Kahana

Eva Kahana is an American sociologist.

Career

Kahana is the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D Robson Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Department of Sociology, and the Director of the Elderly Care Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. ^[1] She has published over 200 academic articles on Holocaust survivors, aging, and stressors. ^[2]

Awards and honors

Kahana is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and is the recipient of its Polisher and Distinguished Mentorship awards. She has also received the Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Fellow of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, the 1977 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Aging and Life Course of the American Sociological Association and Menorah Park's Heller Award. ^[1] She was in the Cleveland Jewish News 2016 class of 18 difference makers. ^[3]

Personal life

Kahana is married to psychologist Boaz Kahana. ^[4] Kahana and her mother are Holocaust survivors who later migrated to the United States. ^{[2] [4] [5]} She has two sons. Kahana attends Green Road Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio. ^[2]

Selected works

Books

• Midlarsky, Elizabeth; Kahana, Eva (1994). Altruism in Later Life. SAGE Publications. ISBN   9780803927681. ^[6]
• Kahana, Jeffrey Steven; Kahana, Eva (2017). Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. ISBN   978-1-62637-590-1. ^[7]

References

1. Gerrity, Ellen; Keane, Terence M.; Tuma, Farris (2001-03-31). The Mental Health Consequences of Torture. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9780306464225.
2. Edelman, Hannah (October 28, 2016). "Eva Kahana". Cleveland Jewish News . Retrieved 2018-11-30.
3. Jacob, Bob (September 1, 2016). "CJN announces 2016 class of 18 Difference Makers". Cleveland Jewish News . Retrieved 2018-11-30.
4. Kessler, Rebecca (December 2012). "Q&A Eva Kahana: Ageing proactively". Nature. 492 (7427): S9. Bibcode:2012Natur.492S...9K. doi: 10.1038/492S9a . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   23222674. S2CID   4413677.
5. Cohen, Sharon Kangisser (2013). "Choosing "a heim" : survivors of the Holocaust and post-war immigration". European Judaism . 46 (2): 32–54. doi:10.3167/ej.2013.46.02.04. JSTOR   42751137.
6. Reviews of Altruism in Later Life:
   • Shapiro, S. (February 1995). "Review". Choice. 32 (6): 1008. ISSN   0009-4978.
   • Jerrome, Dorothy (September 1995). "Review". Ageing and Society. 15 (3): 431–432. doi:10.1017/S0144686X00002683. ISSN   0144-686X. S2CID   145184004.
   • Williamson, J. (September 1995). "Review". Age and Ageing. 24 (5): 457. doi: 10.1093/ageing/24.5.457 . ISSN   0002-0729.
7. Reviews of Disability and Aging: Latham-Mintus, Kenzie (November 2018). "Review". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 47 (6): 728–730. doi:10.1177/0094306118805422bb. ISSN   0094-3061. S2CID   149707037.
   • Hughes, Reverend David (April 2018). "Review". Disability & Society. 33 (4): 644–645. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2018.1438048 . ISSN   0968-7599.
   • Kail, Ben Lennox (June 2019). "Review". Social Forces. 97 (4): e1 –e2. doi:10.1093/sf/soz017. ISSN   0037-7732.

External links

• Eva Kahana publications indexed by Google Scholar