Zev Garber

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Zev Garber
BornMarch 1, 1941
Bronx, NY
NationalityAmerican
Education Bar-Ilan University
Hunter College
University of Southern California
OccupationAcademic
EmployerLos Angeles Valley College
Known forProfessor Emeritus and Chair of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College & editor of Shofar
SpouseSusan
ChildrenAsher and Dorit

Zev Garber is an American academic. He is Professor Emeritus and Chair of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College, and the editor of Shofar , a peer-reviewed academic journal of Jewish Studies. He is the former president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. He was the subject of a Festschrift in 2009.

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Early life and education

Garber was born into a Jewish family and attended Bar-Ilan University in Israel, [1] and he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Hebrew from Hunter College. [2] He studied Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Ugaritic at UCLA graduate school. He earned a master of arts degree and completed his course work for PhD in Religion at the University of Southern California. [2] [3]

Career

Garber started his career as a Hebrew teacher at the Los Angeles Hebrew High School. [2]

Garber joined the faculty at Los Angeles Valley College in 1970. [2] [4] Within a year, he established a Jewish Studies major. [4] As of 2016, he is Professor Emeritus and Chair of Jewish Studies. [5] [6] [7] He was the Visiting Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. [4] He taught Jewish studies at the University of California at Riverside and at the American Jewish University. Garber has been the co-editor and later editor of Shofar since 1994. [4] [8] He served as the President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, [4] where he still serves as an officer. [9] He has been the editor of Iggeret, the newsletter of the NAPH, since 1984. [10]

Garber established the first Jewish Studies program in a public school of higher learning in the State of California at Los Angeles Valley College (1971). He is recognized as a pioneer of Jewish Studies at two-year public colleges. His scholarship embraces Jewish Studies pedagogy, Shoah theology, Jewish Jesus, and interfaith dialogue. His (and Bruce Zuckerman) advocacy of Shoah not Holocaust as the term of record for the murder of European Jewry during WW II, presented at the Oxford Conference ("Remembering for the Future," 10–13 July 1988) was among the first to advocate careful terminology to describe the Jewish genocide. [11]

Garber, published author and presenter of hundreds of academic articles and reviews, was the subject of a Festschrift edited by Steven L. Jacobs entitled Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber in 2009. [12]

Publications

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Registration Opens For Two Hebrew Courses" . The Van Nuys News. August 30, 1970. p. 3. Retrieved June 3, 2016– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Dart, John (September 24, 1995). "Hebrew Sage Shepherds Jewish Studies". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Zev Garber". Purdue University Press. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Greenspoon, Leonard (2010). "Not in an Ivory Tower: Zev Garber and Biblical Studies". Hebrew Studies. 51: 369–373. doi:10.1353/hbr.2010.a400595. JSTOR   27913981. S2CID   142813629.
  6. ↑ Gereboff, Joel (2010). "A Symposium on the Work of Zev Garber: Reviews of Maven in Blue Jeans" . Hebrew Studies. 51: 351. doi:10.1353/hbr.2010.a400592. S2CID   170368891 . Retrieved May 30, 2016– via Project MUSE.
  7. ↑ Gereboff, Joel (2010). "Zev Garber's Usage of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources". Hebrew Studies. 51: 353–358. doi:10.1353/hbr.2010.a400591. JSTOR   27913978. S2CID   170410954.
  8. ↑ Sabbath, Roberta (2010). "Historiosophy and Zev Garber, A Neologism: His Teaching Methodology, Literary Investigations, and Engagement with Zionism". Hebrew Studies. 51: 359–362. doi:10.1353/hbr.2010.a400593. JSTOR   27913979. S2CID   170997346.
  9. ↑ "Officers". National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Zev Garber". Los Angeles Valley College. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dart, John (April 9, 1994). "Scholars Seek Substitute for the Word 'Holocaust'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  12. ↑ Maven in blue jeans : a festschrift in honor of Zev Garber. OCLC   261176645 . Retrieved June 3, 2016– via WorldCat.
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