Ruth Kark

Ruth Kark
Residence Israel
Nationality Israeli
Ethnicity Jewish
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation Historian

Ruth Kark (Hebrew: רות קרק) is an Israeli scholar and Professor of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Biography

Kark completed her B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964. She was awarded an MA in 1972 and earned her doctorate in 1977.[1] Her PhD thesis was on The Development of the Cities Jerusalem and Jaffa from 1840 up to the First World War (A Study in Historical Geography).

She has written and edited twenty books and over 200 articles on the history and historical geography of Palestine and Israel. Kark is noted for her work on settlement in the Land of Israel in the 19th-century and Western influences on the Holy Land.[2] More recently, she has written about women and land ownership in traditional and modern cultures. Kark is often brought into court hearings in Israel as an expert on land disputes.[3]

Published works

Edited books

Articles

References

  1. Hebrew University bio
  2. "Turn-of-the-century community," Jerusalem Post, Sue Kerman, Jun 4, 1998
  3. Reclaiming the Desert, Haaretz
  4. A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies

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