Ramras-Rauch, Gila 1933-2005
Ramras-Rauch, Gila 1933-2005
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born 1933, in Tel-Aviv, Israel; died February 16, 2005, in Brookline, MA. Educator and author. Ramras-Rauch was a professor of Hebrew literature at Hebrew College in Boston and a recognized authority on Holocaust writings. She attended Hunter College and earned her M.A. there before returning to Israel, where she received a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. She taught in Israel for a year, later moving back to the United States, where she worked for the Indiana University at Bloomington from 1978 until 1979. Ramras-Rauch then taught at Ohio State University for three years before joining the faculty at Hebrew College in 1982. There, she was named Lewis H. Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature in 1993, and was still teaching at the college at the time of her death. Interested in how the experience of the Holocaust was expressed through literature, Ramras-Rauch was best known for her books about Israeli writers, including L. A. Arielli: The Life and Work (1991) and Aharon Appelfield: The Holocaust and Beyond (1994). Among her other writings are The Protagonist in Transition (1982), The Arab in Israeli Literature (1989), and Brenner and Modern Literature (1989).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Boston Herald, March 15, 2005, p. 27.
ONLINE
Hebrew College Web site, http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/ (February 16, 2005).