Shulamit reinharz biography sample
Shulamit Reinharz – Specialist in Holocaust Memoirs
Shulamit Reinharz
Shulamit Reinharz | |
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| Born | Shulamit Tirzah Rothschild 1946 (age 78–79) Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Shula Rothschild, Shula Reinharz |
| Occupation(s) | academic, professor emerita, Brandeis sociologist, speaker, writer, author |
| Years active | 1970–2017 |
| Notable work | Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir (Amsterdam Publishers, 2024); |
Shulamit Reinharz (born 1946) was the Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University until 2017.
During her tenure at Brandeis, she was director of the women's studies program from 1991 to 2001 and launched The Scholars Program, the first graduate program to focus on Jewish women. She was the founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in 1997 and founder and director of the Women's Studies Research Center in 2001.
Early life
Shulamit Tirzah "Shula" Rothschild was born in 1946 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Ilse Hertha ( Hiding in Holland — My Father’s Story | My Jewish Learning TER