Ruth Kark

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Ruth Kark

Ruth Kark , Hebrew: רות קרק (born March 28, 1941 in Petach Tikwa ) is an Israeli historian and professor of geography .

Life

Ruth Kark grew up as the daughter of Avraham and Shoshana (Motchan) Kleiner in Israel . Between 1958 and 1960 she completed her 21-month army service in the rank of non-commissioned officer. She then studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her bachelor's degree in 1964 . In 1972 she finished her Master of Arts with cum laude and then completed her doctorate in historical geography by 1977 with a thesis on the development of the cities of Jerusalem and Jaffa from 1840 to the First World War .

Ruth Kark is married to Jeremy David Kark and has three grown children.

academic career

Since 1988 Ruth Kark has taught as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Kark has written and published more than 20 books and over 250 articles on the history and historical geography of Palestine and Israel. Her academic interests are in the study of land use concepts and patterns in the Middle East and Palestine / Israel in the 19th and 20th centuries, urban and rural settlement processes as well as western civilizations, ideologies, interests, activities and interactions with the local population in the Holy Land .

Kark was a fellow at various universities and had various research stays, e. B. at the universities of Oxford , Harvard and Stanford .

Recently, Ruth Kark has written about women and land ownership in traditional and modern cultures. Her studies focus on global indigenous and Bedouin land rights, women and gender, and Jewish entrepreneurship of the Sephardim and Mizrahim in Palestine / Israel.

Kark is often appointed to court in Israel as an expert on land disputes.

Awards

Ruth Kark is a Yakirat Yerushalyim (Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem) and has received many awards, including the Heral Prize and the Israel Geographers' Association Science Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • The Contribution in the Ottoman Regime in the Developement of Jerusalem and Jaffa 1840-1917. In: Palestine in the late Ottoman Period. Political, Social and Economic Transformation. 1986.
  • Joseph B. Glass, Ruth Kark: Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel: The Amzalak Family 1816–1918 . The Hebrew University, Magnes Press, 1991.
  • Historical Perspective through the Study of Ordinary People. William H. Rudy (1845-1915), a Member of the American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem. In: America and Zion. Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis. 2002.
  • Not a Suffragist ?: Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi 1886–1979 on Women and Gender. In: Nashim - A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. 2004.
  • Itamar Katz, Ruth Kark: The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and its Congregation: Dissent over Real Estate. In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 2005.
  • Roy S. Fischel, Ruth Kark: Sultan Abdülhamid II and Palestine: Private Lands and Imperial Policy. In: New Perspectives on Turkey. 2008.
  • Konstantinos Papastathis, Ruth Kark: The Politics of church land administration: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, 1875–1948. In: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 2016.

Books (selection)

  • Ruth Kark: The Land that became Israel. Studies in Historical Geography. The Hebrew University Magnes Press 1989, ISBN 965-223-719-1 .
  • Ruth Kark: Jaffa - A City in Evolution 1799-1917. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, Israel 1990, ISBN 978-9-652-17065-1 .
  • Gideon Biger, Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Ruth Kark: An Empire in the Holy Land. Historical Geography of the British Administration in Palestine, 1917–1929. The Hebrew University, Magnes Press 1994, ISBN 965-223-862-7 .
  • Ruth Kark: American Consuls Holy Land 1832-1914. Wayne State University Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-814-32523-0 .
  • Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Ruth Kark: The "Business" of Settlement. Private Entrepreneurship in the Jewish Settlement of Palestine, 1900–1914. The Hebrew University, Magnes Press 1994, ISBN 965-223-863-5 .
  • Helga Dudman, Ruth Kark: The American Colony: Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga. Carta, 1998, ISBN 978-9-652-20399-1 .
  • Ran Aaronsohn, Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Ruth Kark: Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine. The Hebrew University, Magnes Press 2000, ISBN 965-4-93058-7 .
  • Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim: Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800–1948. Wayne State University Press 2001, ISBN 978-0-814-32909-2 .
  • Joseph B. Glass, Ruth Kark: The Valero Family: Seven Generations in Jerusalem 1800-1948. Gefen Books 2005, ISBN 978-9-652-29336-7 .
  • Ruth Kark: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel. Life, History, Politics and Culture. Brandeis 2008, ISBN 978-1-58465-808-5 .
  • Ruth Kark: Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev. Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-15324-8 .

Web links

Commons : Ruth Kark  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Biographical Encyclopedia: Ruth Kark. Retrieved on March 4, 2019 (en-EN).
  2. ↑ a b c [1] Vita Ruth Kark
  3. ↑ Ruth Kark: Scientific Publications. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Aviva Lori: Reclaiming the Desert . Ed .: Haaretz. August 27, 2010 ( Haaretz.com [accessed March 4, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kark, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES רות קרק (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Petach Tikva