Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
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Hava Lazarus–Yafeh | |
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Born | Hava Lazarus May 6, 1930 |
Died | September 6, 1998 | (aged 68)
Burial place | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery |
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Occupation(s) | Orientalist, scholar, editor, educator |
Spouse | Immanuel Yafeh |
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Awards | Israel Prize (1993) |
Hava Lazarus–Yafeh (1930–1998;
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) .[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
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.
- Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (1981). Some Religious Aspects of Islam. Numen Book Series. Vol. 42. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-06329-7.
- Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (1992). Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism. Princeton University Press.
Articles and chapters
- Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (January 1966). "Some Neglected Aspects of Medieval Muslim Polemics against Christianity". The Harvard Theological Review. 89 (1). Cambridge University Press: 61–84. S2CID 162692324.
- Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava (January 1988). "Reviewed Work: Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam by Steven M. Wasserstrom". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 118 (1): 97–98. JSTOR 606318.
As editor
- Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava; Cohen, Mark R.; Somekh, Sasson; Griffth, Sidney H., eds. (1999). The Majlis: Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam. Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447040419.[10]
References
- ISSN 0022-4480.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "1990-1999 | האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-097027-2.
- ^ a b Menges, Franz (1985). "Lazarus, Paul". Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie 14) (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ISBN 978-3-647-37080-4.
- ^ Who's Who, Israel. P. Mamut. 1968. p. 609.
- S2CID 161869581.
- JSTOR 545454.
- JSTOR 26198129.