Occupation Academic, author Spouse(s) Philip Spectre | Name Barbara Spectre | |
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Known for Founding director of Paideia Alma mater 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 |
American activist barbara lerner spectre calls for destruction of european ethnic societies
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

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.