Mark H. Gelber

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Full Name	Mark H. Gelber
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1951(1951-01-21)
Age	73
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mark H. Gelber Biography

Mark H. Gelber is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 21, 1951 in New York, United States. Mark. H. Gelber (born 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature as well as German-Jewish culture and literature. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude , and also with the highest distinction with distinction in Letters as well as German (Phi Beta Kappa Wesleyan University, 1972). He also attended in the University of Bonn, the University of Grenoble, and Tel Aviv University. He was admitted to graduate studies as the Lewis Farmington Fellow at Yale University and he received his M.A. (1974), M.Phil. with distinction (1979) and a Ph.D. at Yale University (1980). The same year, he was appointed post-doctoral lecturer at Ben-Gurion’s Ben-Gurion University in with high honors (1979) and the Negev, Beer Sheva, within BGU’s Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Apart from guest professorships and research fellowships in other countries, he has been a part of BGU since then. His research interests include: German-Jewish literary and culture literary and cultural studies, the theory of exile and literary works of the exiles, culture Zionism and early Zionist journalism and literature literary anti- Semitism and autobiography, biography and autobiography and the reception of literature. He is often a speaker at international conferences and meetings throughout Israel, Europe, China and in the United States.

Gelber’s book about Cultural Zionism and German Literature and Culture The book, titled Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race as well as Gender throughout the German Literature of Cultural Zionism (2000) highlighted the varied and complex reciprocal relations between Jewish national identity as well as German literary and cultural expression towards the close to the 18th century. Many scholarly reviewers, such as Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Gerhard Kurz (Giessen) and Armin A. Wallas (Klagenfurt) were all in their praise of the study. Important figures like Martin Buber, Nathan Birnbaum, E.M. Lilien, Lesser Ury, Berthold Feiwel, Adolph Donath, Richard Beer-Hofmann Karl Wolfskehl, Else Lasker-Schuler, Borries Freiherr von Munchhausen and many more appear in this specific literary and cultural space.

Gelber has published extensively in the field of German-Jewish Literature and Culture, which he views as a “discipline in its own right.” In an essay based on a conference lecture he gave in Tel Aviv in 2004, and entitled “German- Jewish Literature and Culture and the Field of German-Jewish Studies,” he wrote: “This discipline may be discerned between the boundaries of Germanistik on one side and Jewish Studies on the other, although such fields as Exile Studies (and Diaspora Studies) and Holocaust Studies (and Memory Studies), which also emerged from and appear to be tangential to German and Jewish Studies respectively, also border on and derive synergistic intellectual energy from German-Jewish Studies.” Gelber organized a major international conference on “Thirty Years of German-Jewish Literary Cultural Studies,” which took place in Beer Sheva and Jerusalem in 2010. Gelber is the author of numerous academic encyclopedia articles and essays about German-Jewish literature and culture, and German-Jewish writers, including: Max Brod, Martin Buber, Lion Feuchtwanger, Berthold Feiwel, Iwan Goll, Sammy Gronnemann, Georg Hirschfeld, Leo Kompert, Theodor Lessing, Jakov Lind, Samuel Lublinski, Salomon Hermann Mosenthal, Chaim Noll, Karl Wolfskehl, Arnold Zweig, and others.

At the first international conference concerning literary anti-Semitism (Bielefeld, 2007) Gelber was called a pioneer in the field. It was the topic of his doctoral dissertation, “Aspects of Literary Anti-Semitism: Dickens and Freytag” (Yale: 1980). His foundational scholarly article, “What is Literary Anti-Semitism?” (1985) appeared in Jewish Social Studies (then published by Columbia University in New York). According to Gelber: “…any useful definition of literary anti-Semitism must proceed from literature itself, that is, from texts… literary anti-Semitism may be defined as the potential or capacity of a text to encourage or positively evaluate anti-Semitic attitudes or behaviors, in accordance, generally, with the delineation of such attitudes and behaviors by social scientists and historians. Just as social scientists are careful to locate and identify anti-Semitism according to indices of attitudes and behaviors, literary scholars must attempt to understand precisely how anti- Semitic attitudes manifest themselves in literature and how ‘anti-Semitically charged elements’ function and interact in texts.” His other articles on literary (and filmic) anti-Semitism have focused on Charles Dickens, Gustav Freytag, Julius Langbehn, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man, and Mel Gibson. In 2012 he organized a study day in Israel on the possible literary anti-Semitism and public controversy concerning Günter Grass’s “Was gesagt werden muss.”

Gelber is internationally recognized as an authority on the career and writings that of Franz Kafka, especially regarding the complex relationship between him and Zionism. He organised an international symposium on the issue in 1999. The title was: “‘Ich bin Ende oder Anfang’: Kafka, Zionism and Beyond.” He also contributed an essay about Zionist views on Kafka in the Kafka Handbook (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2008). Gelber has been an expert consultant for the National Library of Israel in the long-running legal battle over the literary estate and will that belonged to Max Brod, which includes many Kafka manuscripts. Gelber has been invited by numerous universities and institutes, like Stanford University, New York University, Wesleyan University, the University of California, Davis and The University of Antwerp, RWTH Aachen and Aachen, the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, New School for Social Research in New York, and others in order to present talks regarding Kafka and the work he did, his connection to Zionism as well as the case in Israel. As of 2015 Gelber hosted an international conference in Ben- Gurion University in Beer Sheva called “Kafka after Kafka. The co-edited conference volume (with Iris Bruce), entitled Kafka after Kafka, Dialogic Encounters with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism’ appeared in 2019 (Camden House).”

Mark H. Gelber Net Worth

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Gelber won Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships in 1991-92, 2003-04, and 2018-19 (Univ. Tubingen, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Europa Univ. Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder Selma Stern Zentrum for Judische Studien, Berlin) as well as numerous DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) research allowances. He was an adjunct Professor of University of Pennsylvania (from 1985 to 2008), University of Pennsylvania (1985-87) as well as the David Herzog visiting professor at the University of Graz (1996, 2008), Austrian guest professor at the University of Maribor (2007), Blaustein visiting professor at Yale University in Judaic Studies (2006) Honorary Research Fellow in University of Auckland (2011), honorary research fellow at University of Auckland (2011) and the guest lecturer of German literary studies at Universiteit Antwerpen (2013) and DAAD-Gastprofessor at RWTH Aachen (2013), DAAD-Gastprofessor RWTH Aachen (2013), Taub Center guest professor at New York University (2013) and the guest lecturer at Renmin University, Beijing (2015). He was appointed an official part of the International Advisory Board of the Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute (London) and was appointed to the scientific Beirat of “Literaturstrasse,” the Chinese-German Yearbook for Language, Literature and Cultural Studies.

Gelber is famous for his many publications on the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig, which have created a new method of looking at Zweig, specifically in diverse Jewish as well as Zionist contexts. Gelber has been referred to as “one of the world’s most eminent authorities on the works of the early 20th century Jewish-Austrian author Stefan Zweig” and also the “Israeli Zweig expert” and Gelber was invited to Salzburg by the City of Salzburg to host an inaugural major global Stefan Zweig Congress (1992). He later organized two additional International Zweig conference (Jerusalem-Beer Sheva and Berlin). He also presented his first ever two-yearly Stefan Zweig lecture at the State University of New York in Fredonia which is the site of the world’s largest Stefan Zweig archive. He also presented the opening plenary lecture at two important international Zweig conferences in The University of London and at Renmin University in Beijing. Stefan Zweig, Judentum und Zionismus was published by Studien Verlag (Innsbruck) in 2014. Gelber has also co-edited a collection of essays on Stefan Zweig, World Literature: 21st Century Perspectives (Camden House, 2014). Gelber is also the co-editor (with Zhang Yi, Renmin University in Beijing) of the collection of essays titled: Aktualitat und Beliebtheit – New Forschung and Rezeption of Stefan Zweig in the globalen Blickwinkel (2015). The idea of a revival of Zweig Studies is now being debated in the media and Gelber has made an important contribution to the idea. Gelber was the initiator and co-organizer of the international symposiumcalled “Stefan Zweig – ein judischer Schrifsteller aus Europa” that was held in the Stefan Zweig Centre in Salzburg in the year 2015. The results of the conference, named “Stefan Zweig – Juedische Relationen” and edited by Gelber was released in 2017 as volume 7 of the Stefan Zweig Centre’s book series. In November 2016, Gelber gave a lecture at length in Hebrew in a memorial event held in the memory of Zweig which was organized through the National Library of Israel entitled Stefan Zweig and the Future as well as the Literary World between the World Wars.

In 2001 Gelber was elected to life membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt). From 2007-2014 he served as the Israeli academic representative on the Fellowship Committee for the Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Gesellschaft (München) with primary responsibility for the faculties of the humanities, social sciences and law. He regularly reviews research projects for the German-Israel Fund (GIF). He was appointed twice by Israeli Ministers of Education to be a judge for the Israel Prize in World Literature (2000) and in Hebrew and Jewish Literatures (1996). In 2018, the Republic of Austria selected Mark Gelber to receive the prestigious Honorary Medal for Science and Art, First Class (Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1. Klasse).

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