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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.
Sara R. Horowitz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | M.A., English literature, Columbia University M.A., French literature, PhD., comparative literature, Brandeis University |
| Thesis | Linguistic displacement in fictional responses to the Holocaust: Kosinski, Wiesel, Lind, and Tournier (1984) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies |
| Institutions | University of Delaware York University |
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]
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]
- 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
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