Nationality American Alma mater Drexel University Institutions Gratz College Fields The Holocaust | Name Nora Levin Institution Gratz College Role Writer Books The Holocaust | |
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Born September 20, 1916
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1916-09-20 ) Died October 26, 1980, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Awards National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust | ||
Nora Levin (September 20, 1916 – October 26, 1989) was a historian of the Holocaust and a writer. She was most interested in the topics of the Jewish Labor Bund, social Zionists, and Jews during the Holocaust.
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Biography
Levin was born on September 20, 1916 in Philadelphia, where she lived for most of her life. She received her B.S. in education from Temple University and her M.L.S. from Drexel University.
She worked as a professor of history of Gratz College in Philadelphia, the founding director of the Holocaust Oral History Archive and served on the Advisory Editorial Board at "Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe (OPREE)".She served as the executive director of the Philadelphia Council of Pioneer Women, the women’s labor Zionist organization. She also served on the executive boards of the Soviet Jewry Council, the Philadelphia Jewish Community Relations Council, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. She died on October 26, 1989.
Works
Shorter articles by Levin are available on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner, including: