Barbara Lerner Spectre

Barbara Lerner Spectre
Born 1942 (age 7374)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Residence Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater Columbia University
New York University
Occupation Academic, author
Known for Founding director of Paideia
Spouse(s) Philip Spectre

Barbara Lerner Spectre (born 1942) is a Jewish activist and academic[1] who is the founding director of Paideia,[2] the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, a non-denominational academic institute established in 2001.

Biography

Barbara Spectre was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated in New York City. 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 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 served as a scholar in residence for the United Synagogues, Midwest Regions in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1996 and has lectured extensively throughout the United States.

In 1999, she immigrated to Sweden and settled in Stockholm, joining 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. In its 10 years of existence (2011) Paideia has educated over 200 persons from 35 countries for leadership positions in the renewal of Jewish culture in Europe.

In 2013 an interview in which Spectre discussed the role of Jews in promoting multi-culturalism went viral online. Paul Austin Murphy of the American Thinker stated that the video was spread by anti-semites, promoting a conspiracy theory based on the comments of a relatively unknown Jew.[3]

Education

Books

References

  1. Shneer, David. "Jewish Sweden: The Radical Jewish Traveler celebrates secularism at the 60th parallel.". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. "Staff". Paideia. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  3. "That Barbara Spectre Video". American Thinker.

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