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Barbara Lerner Spectre

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Occupation
  
Academic, author

Spouse(s)
  
Philip Spectre


Name
  
Barbara Spectre

Residence
  
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Born
  
1942 (age 80–81),

Known for
  
Founding director of Paideia


Books
  
A Different Light: A Pluralist Anthology : the Big Book of Hanukkah

Organization founded
  
Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

Similar
  
Jasminka Domaš, Esther Lederberg, Rita Levi Montalcini

Zodiac Sign
  
Pisces

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Barbara Lerner Spectre (born March 8, 1942) is an academic and philosophy lecturer and the founding director of Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, a non-denominational academic institute established in 2001 and funded by the Swedish government.

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Biography

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Barbara Spectre was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She studied philosophy at Columbia University and NYU, attaining an M.A. in Philosophy. She married Rabbi Philip Spectre, and the couple moved in 1967 to Ashkelon, Israel, where she served on the faculty of Jewish Studies at Achva College of Education. After moving to Jerusalem in 1982, she served on the philosophy faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, the Melton Center of the Hebrew University, and Yellin College of Education where she was cited as Outstanding Lecturer 1995- 1997.

She was the founding chairperson of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in 1984. She held the position of Scholar in Residence for the United Synagogues, Midwest Regions during the years 1987, 1990, 1992, and 1996, and has delivered numerous lectures across the United States. In 1999, she immigrated to Sweden and settled in Stockholm, to join her husband Philip, who was then serving as the Rabbi of the Stockholm Synagogue, and in 2000 she wrote the foundational paper to the Swedish government for the formation of Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies, which she has continued to direct.

Education

  • B.A. Barnard College, Philosophy
  • M.A. New York University, Philosophy, Thesis: “The Paradigm Case and Non-Vacuous Contrast Arguments”
  • PhD Candidate, Bar-Ilan University, Philosophy, “Models of Theological Response to the Holocaust in Christian and Jewish Thought”
  • Books

  • “Educating Jewish Leaders in a Pan-European Perspective”, International Handbook of Jewish Education, Springer, 2011
  • A Different Light: The Hannukah Book of Celebration, Two Volumes, co-editor with Noam Zion, Devora Press, 2000.
  • References

    Barbara Lerner Spectre Wikipedia