Sara R. Horowitz Explained

Sara R. Horowitz
Education:M.A., English literature, Columbia University
M.A., French literature, PhD., comparative literature, Brandeis University
Thesis Title:Linguistic displacement in fictional responses to the Holocaust: Kosinski, Wiesel, Lind, and Tournier
Thesis Year:1984
Discipline:Literature
Sub Discipline:Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies

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.

Education

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]

Career

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]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past Mary Isabel Sibley Fellows . pbk.org . September 30, 2019.
  2. Web site: Sara R. Horowitz . profiles.laps.yorku.ca . 24 May 2018 . September 30, 2019.
  3. Web site: Writing and Editing . www.rabbigilahlangner.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20191002201635/http://www.rabbigilahlangner.com/publications.html . October 2, 2019.
  4. Web site: Wittenstein Lecture Series . gss.ucsb.edu . September 30, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190930183042/https://www.gss.ucsb.edu/news/conferences/wittenstein . September 30, 2019 . 2010.
  5. Book: Walden . Daniel . Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook . 1997 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 9780313294624 . 503 . September 30, 2019.
  6. Alan L. Berger . Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (review) . Modern Judaism . May 2000 . 20 . 2 . 245–248 . August 29, 2019 . Oxford University Press.
  7. Web site: Sarah Horowitz . ushmm.org . August 29, 2019.
  8. Web site: a selection of Milestones . 1.udel.edu . September 30, 2019 . 2001.
  9. News: Jewish prayer shawl carries historical, family associations. Remsen. Jim. September 17, 2000. Brownsville Herald. Texas. 23.
  10. Schoenfeld . Gabriel . CONTROVERSY: Feminist Approaches to the Holocaust . Prooftexts . Spring 2001 . 21 . 2 . 277–279 . 10.2979/pft.2001.21.2.277 . 10.2979/pft.2001.21.2.277 .
  11. Web site: 2002-03 Full-Time Appointments/Enseignants à temps plein . calendars.registrar.yorku.ca . September 30, 2019.
  12. Web site: York U. gets $2.9 million in federal funding for human sciences research . news.yorku.ca . September 30, 2019 . April 29, 2003.
  13. Web site: Loveland . Kristen . The Association For Jewish Studies: A Brief History . associationforjewishstudies.org. 15. September 30, 2019 . December 2008.
  14. News: Godrey . Rena . Centres for Jewish studies thrive at Toronto universities . September 30, 2019 . . October 12, 2012.
  15. Web site: York University's Research Leaders' Gala recognizes high-calibre, world-leading research . laps.yorku.ca . April 5, 2017 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20170701130510/https://laps.yorku.ca/2017/04/york-universitys-research-leaders-gala-recognizes-high-calibre-world-leading-research/ . July 1, 2017.
  16. Web site: Call for Submissions 2019 . cjlawards.ca . https://web.archive.org/web/20190716012611/http://www.cjlawards.ca/ . July 16, 2019.
  17. Web site: Academic Committee . ushmm.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20190803203739/https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/academic-committee . August 3, 2019.
  18. Web site: About the Institute . Remember the Women Institute . https://web.archive.org/web/20201204171042/https://rememberwomen.org/about.html . 4 December 2020.

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