Elisabeth Israels Perry
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March 29, 1939
Elisabeth Israels Perry | |
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| Born | Elisabeth Miriam Israels March 29, 1939 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 11, 2018 (aged 79) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Other names | Elisabeth Israels Lazarof |
| Occupations | Historian, college professor |
| Spouse(s) | Henri Lazarof (m. 1958) Lewis Perry (m. 1970) |
| Relatives | Belle Moskowitz (grandmother) Mordecai Bauman (stepfather) Chuck Israels (brother) |
Elisabeth Israels Perry (March 29, 1939 – November 11, 2018) was an American feminist historian and college professor. She was president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) from 1998 to 2000.
Perry was born in New York City, the daughter of Irma Commanday Bauman and her first husband, attorney Carlos Lindner Israels.[1][2] Her mother and stepfather, singer Mordecai Bauman, co-founded and ran the Indian Hill Music Workshop in Massachusetts.[3][4] Her brother is jazz musician Chuck Israels; their paternal grandmother was activist Belle Moskowitz.[5][6]
Perry attended Hunter College High School, graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, and completed her doctoral studies in French history there in 1967,[7] based on research she conducted in Paris on a Fulbright fellowship.[8][9][10]
Career
Perry taught at the University of Colorado Boulder,[7] the University of Cincinnati, the University of Iowa, Vanderbilt University,[6][11] and Brooklyn College.[8][9] She and her husband held a joint faculty appointment at Saint Louis University, where she was chair of the history department and interim chair of the women's studies department.[12][13] In 1994 she was named director of the master's program in women's history at Sarah Lawrence College.[11] She directed the NEH Summer Seminar in Women's History seven times.[8]
Perry was president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) from 1998 to 2000.[14] She contributed articles to the Jewish Women's Archive[15] and The Encyclopedia of New York City,[16] and was a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997).[15]
