Mark H. Gelber
Mark. H. Gelber (Hebrew: מרק גלבר; born 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture.
Education
He received his B.A. Letters and German (Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University). He also studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Grenoble, and Tel Aviv University. He was accepted for graduate studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Yale University and he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Positions and awards
In 1980 he became a post-doctoral lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Except for guest professorships and research fellowships abroad, he has been affiliated there since that time.
From 2008-2018 Gelber directed the Research Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University.[1] He was twice Chair of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and was appointed Director of the Overseas Student Programs and the Center for International Student Programs at BGU (1996–2004). He established and directed the Internationale Sommeruniversität für Hebräisch, Jüdische Studien und Israelwissenschaften in Beer Sheva (1998–2004, 2009). In November 2008 he was appointed Dean of International Academic Affairs at Ben-Gurion University.[2] In 2009 he was elected to the executive board of the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, where he served from 2009–2017.[3]
In 2001 Gelber was elected to life membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt).[4]
A Festschrift in honor of Gelber's emeritate was presented in 2018: Wegweiser und Grenzgänger: Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte. Eine Festschrift für Mark H. Gelber(Böhlau Verlag). A symposium in honor of Gelber, entitled "Austrian/German-Jewish Studies and Their Future," was held at Ben-Gurion University in October, 2018.
Bibliography
- With Hans Otto Horch and Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Von Franzos zu Canetti. Jüdische Autoren aus Österreich. Neue Studien. (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996)
- Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race, and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural Zionism, 2000
- Confrontations/Accommodations: German-Jewish Literary and Cultural Relations from Heine to Wassermann (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004)
- Kafka, Zionism, and Beyond (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004)
- With Vivian Liska, Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2007)
- With Vivian Liska, Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2007)
- With Jakob Hessing and Robert Jütte, Integration und Ausgrenzung. Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart (Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2009)
- Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday, Festchrift for Sol Liptzin (Bern: Peter Lang, 1986)
On Stefan Zweig
- Stefan Zweig and World Literature: 21st Century Perspectives, edited collection with Birger Vanwesenbeeck (Camden House: 2014)
- Aktualität und Beliebtheit – Neue Forschung und Rezeption von Stefan Zweig im internationalen Blickwinkel, with Zhang Yi (2015)
- Stefan Zweig - Jüdische Relationen. Studien zu Werk und Biographie, conference proceedings (Stefan Zweig Centre's book series, 2017)
References
- ↑ Center for German and Austrian Studies
- ↑ See list of deans and senior administrative staff at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, p. 17.
- ↑ See list of executive board members at the Leo Baeck Institute of Jerusalem Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Announcement of Mark Gelber's life membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- 1951 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- American expatriate academics
- American male non-fiction writers
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- Jewish philosophers
- Jewish scholars
- Wesleyan University alumni