Jehuda Reinharz
| Jehuda Reinharz | |
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| 7th President of Brandeis University |
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In office March 1994 – December 31, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel O. Thier |
| Succeeded by | Frederick M. Lawrence |
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August 1, 1944 Haifa, Palestine (now Israel) |
| Spouse(s) | Shulamit Reinharz |
| Children | Yael and Naomi |
| Residence | Brookline, MA |
| Religion | Jewish |
Jehuda Reinharz (born August 1, 1944) is a former President of Brandeis University, where he is Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. On September 25, 2009 he announced his retirement as president; but at the request of trustees he stayed on until a replacement could be hired. On January 1, 2011, Reinharz became president of the Mandel Foundation and Frederick M. Lawrence assumed office as the 8th president of Brandeis University.
Reinharz was born in the British Mandate of Palestine, now the State of Israel. He received his high school education in Germany, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1961.
Reinharz earned concurrent bachelor's degrees: a Bachelor of Science (B.S) from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Religious Education (B.R.E) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He earned his master's degree in medieval Jewish history from Harvard University in 1968, and his Ph.D. in modern Jewish history from Brandeis University in 1972.
In 1972, Reinharz became the first professor of Jewish history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he created the interdisciplinary program that formed the basis for the University's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
In 1982, he became the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. Two years later, he was named Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis and eight years later founded the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel. From 1991 to 1994, Dr. Reinharz served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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