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