Mark H. Gelber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Literary scholar
Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1951
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Profession: literary scholar
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Mark H. Gelber
- Mark.
- H.
- Gelber (born 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture.
- He received his B.A.
- magna cum laude and with high honors in Letters and German (Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University, 1972).
- He also studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Grenoble, and Tel Aviv University.
- He was accepted for graduate studies as a Lewis Farmington Fellow at Yale University and he received his M.A.
- (1974), M.Phil.
- with high honors (1979), and Ph.D.
- from Yale University (1980).
- In the same year he accepted an appointment as post-doctoral lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
- Except for guest professorships and research fellowships abroad, he has been affiliated with BGU since that time.
- His research topics include: German-Jewish literature and culture, comparative literature, exile theory and the literature of exile, cultural Zionism, early Zionist literature and journalism, literary anti-Semitism, autobiography and biography, and literary reception.
- He lectures frequently at international meetings and conferences in Israel, Europe, China, and the United States. A Festschrift in honor of Gelber's retirement ("Emeritierung"), co-edited by Stefan Vogt, Hans Otto Horch, Malgorzata A.
- Maksymiak and Vivian Liska, was presented in late October 2018: Wegweiser und Grenzgänger: Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte.
- Eine Festschrift für Mark H.
- Gelber [Pathfinder on the Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Studies in German and German-Jewish Literary and Cultural History] (Böhlau Verlag: 2018).
- A symposium in honor of Gelber, entitled "Austrian/German-Jewish Studies and Their Future" was held at Ben-Gurion University on October 31, 2018.
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