David Stern (academic)

David Stern
David Stern
Education	Columbia University (BA); Harvard University (PhD);
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Academic career
Discipline	Hebrew literature
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University;

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]

Biography

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]

References

^ "David Stern – AAJR". Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1998). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
^ katzcenterupenn. "David Stern". Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ ^a ^b "David Stern". nelc.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ "David Stern". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ "Rebecca Stern, Jesse Wenger". The New York Times. 2014-06-22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ "Kathryn Hellerstein | Jewish Studies Program". ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.