Jane S. Gerber is a professor of Jewish history

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 and the director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at City University of New York

City University of New York

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. She is also the author of many books, including Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience, and other books. Gerber was formerly the president of the Association for Jewish Studies. She received a Ph.D.

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 from Columbia University

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, and teaches classes in Classics

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, History

History

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, and M.A. Liberal Studies.

Works

• (1986). "Anti-Semitism and the Muslim World". In History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism, ed. David Berger. Jewish Publications Society. ISBN 0-8276-0267-7
• (1994) The beginnings of Jewish life in Spain are cloaked in myth and legend..." Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience ISBN 0029115744

External links

• The Institute for Sephardic Studies at The City University of New York