David Stern (academic)

David Stern
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Academic background
Education	Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
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

1. "David Stern – AAJR". Retrieved 2022-06-05.
2. 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.
3. katzcenterupenn. "David Stern". Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
4. "David Stern". nelc.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
5. "David Stern". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
6. "Rebecca Stern, Jesse Wenger". The New York Times. 2014-06-22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
7. "Kathryn Hellerstein | Jewish Studies Program". ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.