Sara R. Horowitz | |
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Born | 1951 |
Academic background | |
Education | M.A., English literature, Columbia University M.A., French literature, PhD., comparative literature, Brandeis University |
Thesis | Linguistic displacement in fictional responses to the Holocaust: Kosinski, Wiesel, Lind, and Tournier (1984) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Literature |
Sub-discipline | Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies |
Institutions | University of Delaware York University |
Sara Reva Horowitz (born 1951) is an American Holocaust literary scholar. She is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and former Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. She is also a member of the academic advisory board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Horowitz earned her Master of Arts from Columbia University. In 1982,she was the recipient of a Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa. [1] Horowitz then earned her PhD from Brandeis University. [2]
In 1992,Horowitz and Rabbi Gilah Langner founded a Jewish journal "Kerem:A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism." [3] As an associate professor at the University of Delaware,Horowitz also directed its Jewish Studies Program. [4] In 1995,Horowitz co-edited "Jewish American Women Writers" which won the 1995 Judaica Reference Book Award. [5] Two years later,she wrote Voicing the Void:Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction [6] which won the 1997 Choice:Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. [7] She also received the University of Delaware CHOICE award. [8] In 2000,Horowitz left the University of Delaware and moved to Canada. [9] She also published "Gender,Genocide,and Jewish Memory." [10]
In 2002,Horowitz was appointed a full-time associate professor at York University in their Faculty of Liberal Arts &Professional Studies. [11] The following year,she was the recipient of a $97,086 grant to study Gender and the Holocaust. [12] She was also elected vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies. [13] In 2005,Horowitz was named Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. [14]
Horowitz collaborated with Julia Creet and Amira Dan to edit H. G. Adler:Life,Literature,Legacy which won the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for the best contribution to Jewish thought and culture. [15] She later sat on the jury of the 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. [16]
She also sits on the Academic Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [17] as well as the advisory board of the Remember the Women Institute [18]
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