Sara R. Horowitz
Born1951 (1951)
Academic background
EducationM.A., English literature, Columbia University
M.A., French literature, PhD., comparative literature, Brandeis University
ThesisLinguistic displacement in fictional responses to the Holocaust: Kosinski, Wiesel, Lind, and Tournier (1984)
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature
Sub-disciplineComparative Literature and Jewish Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware
York University

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

  • Voicing the void: muteness and memory in Holocaust fiction
  • Women in Holocaust literature: Engendering trauma memory
  • But is it Good for the Jews? Spielberg's Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity
  • Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory
  • Memory and Testimony of Women Survivors of Nazi Genocide
  • Engaging survivors: Assessing 'testimony' and 'trauma' as foundational concepts
  • The gender of good and evil: Women and Holocaust memory
  • Nostalgia and the Holocaust
  • Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women's Survival
  • The cinematic triangulation of Jewish American identity: Israel, America and the Holocaust
  • Gender and Holocaust representation

References

  1. ↑ "Past Mary Isabel Sibley Fellows". pbk.org. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Sara R. Horowitz". profiles.laps.yorku.ca. 24 May 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Writing and Editing". Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Wittenstein Lecture Series". gss.ucsb.edu. 2010. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  5. ↑ Walden, Daniel (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 503. ISBN 9780313294624. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  6. ↑ Alan L. Berger (May 2000). "Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (review)". Modern Judaism. Oxford University Press. 20 (2): 245–248. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Sarah Horowitz". ushmm.org. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  8. ↑ "a selection of Milestones". 1.udel.edu. 2001. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ Remsen, Jim (September 17, 2000). "Jewish prayer shawl carries historical, family associations". Brownsville Herald. Texas. p. 23.Free access icon
  10. ↑ Schoenfeld, Gabriel (Spring 2001). "CONTROVERSY: Feminist Approaches to the Holocaust". Prooftexts. 21 (2): 277–279. doi:10.2979/pft.2001.21.2.277. JSTOR 10.2979/pft.2001.21.2.277.
  11. ↑ "2002-03 Full-Time Appointments/Enseignants à temps plein". calendars.registrar.yorku.ca. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ "York U. gets $2.9 million in federal funding for human sciences research". news.yorku.ca. April 29, 2003. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  13. ↑ Loveland, Kristen (December 2008). "THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES: A BRIEF HISTORY" (PDF). associationforjewishstudies.org. p. 15. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  14. ↑ Godrey, Rena (October 12, 2012). "CENTRES FOR JEWISH STUDIES THRIVE AT TORONTO UNIVERSITIES". Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  15. ↑ "York University's Research Leaders' Gala recognizes high-calibre, world-leading research". laps.yorku.ca. April 5, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Call for Submissions 2019". cjlawards.ca. Archived from the original on July 16, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Academic Committee". ushmm.org. Archived from the original on August 3, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  18. ↑ "About the Institute". Remember the Women Institute. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
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