Shulamit reinharz biography
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Shulamit Reinharz
American expert born unite the Netherlands
Shulamit Reinharz | |
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| Born | Shulamit Tirzah Rothschild (age&#;78&#;79) Amsterdam, Description Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Other&#;names | Shula Banker, Shula Reinharz |
| Occupation(s) | academic, professor emerita, Brandeis sociologist, speaker, author, author |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Notable work | Hiding in Holland: A Denial Memoir (Amsterdam Publishers, ); |
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Early life
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University president and professor, historian and sociologist, husband and wife: A look at the careers and lives of a great Jewish power couple.
Ask Shulamit and Jehuda Reinharz if they have to make a conscious effort not to talk shop at home and they look at you curiously. Conversations about Brandeis University don’t qualify as shoptalk for these two, because the school is both career and pride and joy. “It’s true that Brandeis has become our family and our family a part of Brandeis,” Shulamit explains.
“As a couple, they’re all-Brandeis, all the time,” says Marty Krauss,
the school’s provost. “You can see how much they’re enjoying themselves here and you can see the electricity bouncing between them.”
Indeed, whereas other university presidents may have supportive first ladies, Jehuda Reinharz has his Shula, a smiling ball of energy, vision and ambition as well as the Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology and the director of the Women’s Studies Program. Despite hectic, over-the-top schedules and after 37 years of marriage, the two continue to inspire and reinvigorate each other.
Walk into Jehuda’s office and you will see arranged on the sofas the four pillows of Brandeis University. Not the four pillars, the fourpillows. Having spent the past
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Founding Director, Women's Studies Research Center
Founding Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Shulamit Reinharz's areas of teaching include group dynamics, history of sociology, social psychology, the relation between Jews, gender and art. Since , she has been deeply engaged in institution building, first as director of the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis, and then as founder of two research institutes housed in a renovated building that she designed.
Reinharz is deeply engaged in community development, in Jewish women's studies, and empowering students and scholars through various new programs including investigative journalism, a college women's health website, a flourishing art gallery, a book publication series, etc. All of these new activities are propelled and shaped by her sociological imagination.
Experience
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Professor of Sociology, Emerita, Brandeis University