Jehuda Reinharz was the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis.
26 Facts About Jehuda Reinharz
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Jehuda Reinharz is the president and CEO of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.
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On September 25,2009, Reinharz announced his retirement as President of Brandeis, but at the request of the Board of Trustees, he stayed on until a replacement could be hired.
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On January 1,2011, Jehuda Reinharz became president and CEO of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation.
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Jehuda Reinharz was born in Haifa in the British Mandate of Palestine, now the State of Israel.
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Jehuda Reinharz completed his high school education in Newark, New Jersey.
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Jehuda Reinharz earned his master's degree in medieval Jewish history from Harvard University in 1968 and his Ph.
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Jehuda Reinharz retired from her professorship and directorship of the Institutes in 2017.
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In 1972, Jehuda Reinharz became the first professor of Jewish history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he created the interdisciplinary program that formed the basis for the University's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
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Jehuda Reinharz became a full professor at the University of Michigan in 1980.
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From 1991 to 1994, Professor Jehuda Reinharz served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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Jehuda Reinharz was announced as the University's 7th president on March 2,1994, succeeding Samuel O Thier.
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Jehuda Reinharz raised $1.2 billion during his presidency and quadrupled the endowment, from $194 million to $772 million.
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Jehuda Reinharz announced his resignation as President of Brandeis University at midnight on September 25,2009, after serving the Brandeis community for seventeen years.
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Jehuda Reinharz stayed on as President until a successor was selected and ready to assume office.
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On January 1,2011, Reinharz was officially replaced by Frederick M Lawrence, and on that date, he became president of the Mandel Foundation.
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Jehuda Reinharz is twice the recipient of the President of Israel Prize, awarded by the Israeli Parliament in 1990 and 2024, in recognition of his scholarly publications.
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Jehuda Reinharz was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1999.
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Jehuda Reinharz twice received the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to enable him to pursue his research.
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In 1998, Jehuda Reinharz was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
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Jehuda Reinharz is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Fairfield University, Ben Gurion University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Brandeis University, Hebrew College, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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In 2017, Jehuda Reinharz was elected chairman of the International Board of the Weizmann Institute in Israel and served until 2020.
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Jehuda Reinharz serves on many other Boards in the United States and Israel.
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Jehuda Reinharz is the author, co-author and editor of more than one hundred articles and 34 books in various languages.
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Jehuda Reinharz co-wrote with Yaacov Shavit a book on the history of the donkey in literature, The Donkey: A Cultural History, which was published in 2014 in Hebrew.
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In 2013 Jehuda Reinharz co-authored The Road to September 1939 with Yaacov Shavit, as well as Die Sprache der Judenfeindschaft im 21.