Hava Lazarus-Yafeh

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Hava Lazarus–Yafeh
Born
Hava Lazarus

(1930-05-06)May 6, 1930
DiedSeptember 6, 1998(1998-09-06) (aged 68)
Burial placeMount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation(s)Orientalist, scholar, editor, educator
SpouseImmanuel Yafeh [he]
Parent
AwardsIsrael Prize (1993)

Hava Lazarus–Yafeh (1930–1998;

German-born Israeli Orientalist, scholar, editor, and educator.[1] She known for her work in medieval and modern Islamic Studies and interfaith relations.[2] Lazarus–Yafeh was a professor and a head of the Department for Islamic Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She won the Israel Prize in history in 1993.[3]

Biography

Hava Lazarus was born on May 6, 1930, in Wiesbaden, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Weimar Republic (present-day Germany) to a Jewish family.[4] Her mother was Jadwiga Walfisz, a teacher; and her father was a noted German Rabbi Paul Lazarus (Rabbi) [de].[5] In November 1938, the Wiesbaden Synagogue, where her father had recently retired from, was destroyed on Kristallnacht.[5] In February 1939, the Lazarus family emigrated to Mandatory Palestine.[4] She attended Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.[4] In 1954 she married teacher Immanuel Yafeh.[4]

Lazarus–Yafeh graduated in 1950 from

MA degree in 1958 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4] Her Ph.D. was completed in 1966 under the supervision of David Hartwig Baneth [he],[6]
the title of her Ph.D. dissertation was "The Literary Character of Al-Ghazzali's Writings: Studies in the Language of Al-Ghazzali".

She started teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, while she was a student.[4] She was a post-doctoral fellow and visiting researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1965 to 1966.[7] She served as the head of the Department for Islamic Civilization at Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1968 to 1971.[4]

She died on September 6, 1998, in Jerusalem.

Publications

Books

  • Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (1965). The Literary Character of Al-Ghazzali's Writings: Studies in the Language of Al-Ghazzali (dissertation). Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
    OCLC 19137767
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  • Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (1981). Some Religious Aspects of Islam. Numen Book Series. Vol. 42. Brill. .
  • Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (1992). Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism. Princeton University Press.

Articles and chapters

As editor

References

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  2. ^ The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 24. Jointly published by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists; International Institute of Islamic Thought. 2007. p. 150.
  3. ^ "1990-1999 | האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
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  5. ^ a b Menges, Franz (1985). "Lazarus, Paul". Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie 14) (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-02.
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  7. ^ Who's Who, Israel. P. Mamut. 1968. p. 609.
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