Jane Gerber

Jane S. Gerber is a professor of Jewish history and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the City University of New York.

Education and marriage

Gerber received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is married to Roger A. Gerber. Their family includes a daughter Dina.

Academic career

Gerber teaches classes in Classics, History, and M.A. Liberal Studies in the Center of Jewish Studies at the City University of New York, specializing in Sephardic history. She is director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies.

Gerber's books include Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience. Gerber was formerly the president of the Association for Jewish Studies.

Works

• (1986). "Anti-Semitism and the Muslim World". In History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism, ed. David Berger. Jewish Publications Society. ISBN 0-8276-0267-7
• (1994) The beginnings of Jewish life in Spain are cloaked in myth and legend..." Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience ISBN 0-02-911574-4
• (1997) Jewish Society in Fez, 1450-1700: Studies in Communal and Economic Life (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times) ISBN 9004058206

Her one-volume history of Sephardic Jews of Spain was described as "excellent" and a reviewer noted her strengths in synthesizing much recent research about this people.