Harriet Abbey Parmet[1] (née Leibowitz; July 22, 1928 – October 24, 2022) was an American author and educator.[2]
Harriet Parmet | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harriet Abbey Leibowitz July 22, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | October 24, 2022 (aged 94) Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Author Educator |
| Education | Gratz College |
| Alma mater | Temple University |
| Spouse | Sidney Parmet |
| Children | 2 |
Work
editParmet worked as a professor of literature and foreign languages at Lehigh University,[3] and was a cofounder of their Jewish studies department. She has written extensively on religious views in Judaism[4] and notably, Holocaust resistance fighter Haviva Reik.[5] She particularly has criticized the lack of a "national hero figure" formed around Reik and her sacrifices during the Second World War.[6]
She is the author of The Terror of Our Days: Four American Poets Respond to the Holocaust,[7] a response of American poets who "articulate a collective conciousness" to the Holocaust, despite not having experienced it.[8] In her writings on Judaism, she is notable for her article Rabbinic and Feminist Responses to Reproductive Technology, which discusses the contrast and similarities between feminist reviews on modern fertility treatments and interpretations by traditional Jewish halakha.[9]
Personal life
editParmet graduated with a degree from Gratz College and attended graduate school at Temple University. In 1949, she married her husband Sidney B. Parmet.[10] She has two children, Jonathan and Howard.[11]
Selected works
edit- Lasker, Judith N.; Parmet, Harriet L. (1990). "Rabbinic and Feminist Responses to Reproductive Technology". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 6 (1): 117–130. ISSN 8755-4178.
- Parmet, Harriet (1990). "Haviva Reik: A Woman of Valor". Midstream. 36. Theodor Herzl. 24 – via Google Books.
- Parmet, Harriet L.; Lasker, Judith N. (1991). "Religion and Views on Reproductive Technologies: A Comparative Study of Jews and Non-Jews". Shofar. 10 (1): 57–71. ISSN 0882-8539.
- Parmet, Harriet L. (1993). "An Approach Toward the Inclusion of Women Writers in a Course on the Israeli Short Story". Feminist Teacher. 7 (3): 41–46. ISSN 0882-4843.
- Parmet, Harriet L. (1994). "Jewish Voices and Themes: Rose Drachler, Julia Vinograd and Linda Pastan". Studies in American Jewish Literature. 13: 52–58. ISSN 0271-9274.
- Parmet, Harriet L. (2001). The Terror of Our Days: Four American Poets Respond to the Holocaust. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 978-0-934223-63-8.
- Parmet, Harriet L. (1995). "The Jewish Essence of Franz Kafka". Shofar. 13 (2): 28–43. ISSN 0882-8539.
- Parmet, Harriet L. (2000). "Images of the Jew Focused on in the Translated Polish Works of Tadeusz Borowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Czeslaw Milosz". Shofar. 18 (3): 13–26. ISSN 0882-8539.
- Aronson, Richard J.; Parmet, Harriet L.; Thornton, Robert James (2010). Variations in economic analysis: essays in honor of Eli Schwartz. New York (N.Y.): Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-1181-0.
References
edit- ^ Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: 955485
- ^ "Harriet Parmet". The Morning Call. 2022-10-26. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ "2 articles by lecturer at Lehigh U. published". The Morning Call. 1990-07-06. p. 31. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ "Harriet L. Parmet". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ "Conference to explore interfaith relations". Miami News. 1988-10-13. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Fruchter, Adina Babeş-; Bǎrbulescu, Ana (2021-06-01). The Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe: Historiography, Archives Resources and Remembrance. Vernon Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-64889-199-1.
- ^ Edwards, Cliff (2004). "Poetry After Auschwitz?". Menorah Review. 61 (Summer/Fall): 6 – via Virginia Commonwealth University.
- ^ Hirsch, David H. (1994). "Introduction: Holocaust Literature Issue". Modern Language Studies. 24 (4): 3–10. ISSN 0047-7729.
- ^ "Editors' Introduction". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 6 (1): 3–7. 1990. ISSN 8755-4178.
- ^ "Local Man Engaged to Philadelphia Girl". Pottsville Republican. 1949-11-08. p. 16. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Parmet, Harriet L. (2001). The terror of our days : four American poets respond to the Holocaust. Internet Archive. Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press; London; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-934223-63-8.