David M. Stern is an American scholar of

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

literature. He is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature at

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Biography

Stern received his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from

. He taught at the

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and was the Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature before joining Harvard's faculty in 2015. His work has focused on interpreting works of Jewish literature in their historical and cultural contexts as well as the material history of Jewish literary works, with a specialization in Classical

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and Medieval Hebrew literature. Stern received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

in 2004. He is married to Kathryn A. Hellerstein, professor of Jewish studies at the

References

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