Shulamith Shahar

Shulamith Shahar

Shulamith Shahar , Hebrew שולמית שחר, DMG inscription Šûlammît Sahar (* 1928 in Latvia ) is an Israeli historian , through their studies on gender roles ( gender studies ) and became known to the Middle Ages.

Life

Shahar was born the youngest of three daughters to the Jewish industrialist Moshe Weinstock and his wife. In 1933 part of the family emigrated to the Mandate Palestine . Her older sister was murdered by the German authorities near Riga during World War II . At the time of their immigration, Shahar spoke only Russian. During her school days she worked for the Hagana and after the independence of Israel she graduated from high school. She completed her studies of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem with a Bachelor of Arts . At 19 she married and had a son, but they divorced after two years.

To get her MA degree , Shahar went back to Jerusalem where she worked as a teacher. In 1954 she met the author David Shahar , whom she married two years later. The couple have two children. Shahar's son from his first marriage died as a member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an accident during a military exercise.

Shahar received a scholarship to the Sorbonne University in Paris and did his PhD there. She became a professor of history at Tel Aviv University and was the head of the faculty until she retired at the age of 64. Since then she has devoted herself to social tasks. For example, she is the chairman of an association that runs a women's refuge in Jerusalem. David Shahar died in 1997.

Awards and honors

• 2003: Israel Prize for General History

Publications

• The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages . Methuen, London / New York City 1983, ISBN 0-416-36810-7 .
  • The woman in the Middle Ages . German by Ruth Achlama . Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1981, ISBN 3-610-04715-1 .
• Growing Old in the Middle Ages: Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain . Routledge, London / New York City 2004, ISBN 0-415-14126-5 .
• Childhood in the middle ages. 3. Edition. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-491-69107-9 .

Translations

• into Hebrew from Latin: The letters of Petrus Abelardus and Heloisa .