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'''Ruth Kark''' ({{lang-he|רות קרק}}) (born 1941) is an [[Israel]]i historical geographer and professor of geography at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Court-rejects-6-Beduin-Negev-land-lawsuits Court rejects 6 Bedouin Negev land lawsuits], [[Jerusalem Post]]</ref>
'''Ruth Kark''' ({{lang-he|רות קרק}}; born 1941) is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. Professor Kark is a well-known researcher and expert in the field of the historical geography of Palestine and Israel.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goren |first=Haim |url=https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x00243387.pdf |title=Europe and Palestine 1799–1948: Religion – Politics – Society |date=14 September 2010 |publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press |editor-last=Haider-Wilson |editor-first=Barbara |pages=55–74 |chapter=Israeli Scholars since 1970 and the Study of the European Presence in Palestine in the Nineteenth Century (until World War I): State of the Art |editor-last2=Trimbur |editor-first2=Dominique}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==


=== Early life and education ===
=== Early life and education ===
Ruth Kark (née Kleiner) was born in [[Herzliya]] in 1941 to Shoshanna Moczan and Avraham Kleiner.
Ruth Kark (née Kleiner) was born in [[Herzliya]] in 1941 to [[:he:שושנה קליינר|Shoshana Moczan]] and Avraham Kleiner.


Kark completed her B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, was awarded an MA in 1972 and earned her doctorate in 1977.<ref>[http://geography.huji.ac.il/personal/Kark/ruticv.htm Hebrew University bio]</ref> Kark's 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).
Kark completed her B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, was awarded an MA in 1972 and earned her doctorate in 1977, becoming the first female Israeli geographer with a PhD and a pioneer of historical geography research in Palestine and Israel.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Niza |first=Yanai |url=https://www.academia.edu/10504142 |title=נשים בדרום: מרחב, פריפריה, מיגדר |publisher=The Ben Gurion Center for the Study of Israel, Ben Gurion University Press and Xargol Publishers |year=2005 |editor-last=Dahan-Kalev |editor-first=Henreit |pages=239–254 |language=he |trans-title=Women of the South: Space, Periphery, Gender |chapter=Interview with Prof. Ruth Kark |editor-last2=Yanai |editor-first2=Niza |editor-last3=Berkovitch |editor-first3=Niza}}</ref> Kark's 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).


=== Personal life ===
=== Personal life ===
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==Academic career==
==Academic career==
Kark has written and edited more than 20 books and over 250 peer-reviewed articles on the history and [[historical geography]] of [[Palestine (region)|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]].<ref>"Turn-of-the-century community," [[Jerusalem Post]], Sue Kerman, Jun 4, 1998</ref> More recently, she has published works about women and land ownership in both traditional and modern cultures across the Middle East. Kark is often brought into court hearings in Israel as an expert on land disputes and as an academic with a reputation in the field of pre-State landownership in Israel.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/friday-supplement/reclaiming-the-desert-1.310558 Reclaiming the Desert], [[Haaretz]]</ref>
Kark has written and edited more than 20 books and over 250 peer-reviewed articles on the history and [[historical geography]] of [[Palestine (region)|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]].<ref>"Turn-of-the-century community," [[Jerusalem Post]], Sue Kerman, Jun 4, 1998</ref> More recently, she has published works about women and land ownership in both traditional and modern cultures across the Middle East.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Israel Association for Femenist and Gender Studies |first= |date=27 February 2013 |title=עיטור יקירת ירושלים לפרופ’ רות קרק – האגודה הישראלית ללימודים פמיניסטיים ולחקר המגדר |trans-title=Yakir Yerushalayim award presentation to Prof. Ruth Kark |url=https://gendersite.org.il/2013/02/27/%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%98%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%99%d7%a7%d7%99%d7%a8%d7%aa-%d7%99%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9c%d7%a4%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a4-%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%a7/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=מאמרים אקדמיים |language=he-IL}}</ref> Kark is often brought into court hearings in Israel as an expert on land disputes and as an academic with a reputation in the field of pre-State landownership in Israel.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lori |first=Aviva |date=27 August 2010 |title=Reclaiming the Desert |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2010-08-27/ty-article/reclaiming-the-desert/0000017f-ebab-d639-af7f-ebff2f440000 |access-date=2024-01-17 |work=Haaretz |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kedar |first=Alexandre |doi=10.11126/stanford/9781503603585.003.0005 |title=Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev |last2=Amara |first2=Ahmad |last3=Yiftachel |first3=Oren |date=February 2018 |publisher=Stanford University Press |pages=87–118}}</ref>


==Published works==
==Published works==
===Books===
===Books===
* Kark, R., ''Frontier Jewish Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948.'' Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Muchad Publishers, 1974. 204 pp. (in Hebrew).
* Kark, R., ''Frontier Jewish Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948.'' Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Muchad Publishers, 1974 (Hebrew).
*Kark, R., ''Neighborhoods in Jerusalem—Building in New Jerusalem and Neighborhoods By-Laws.'' Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1978. 88 pp. (in Hebrew).
*Kark, R., ''Neighborhoods in Jerusalem—Building in New Jerusalem and Neighborhoods By-Laws.'' Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1978 (Hebrew).
*Kark, R., ''Jaffa—A City in Evolution, 1799–1917.'' Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1984. 300 pp. (in Hebrew).
*Kark, R., ''Jaffa—A City in Evolution, 1799–1917.'' Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1984 (Hebrew).
*Kark, R., ''Jerusalem Neighborhoods, Planning and By-Laws (1855–1930)''. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991. 195 pp.
*Kark, R., ''Jerusalem Neighborhoods, Planning and By-Laws (1855–1930)''. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
*Glass J. B. and Kark, R., ''Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel—The Amzalak Family, 1816–1918.'' Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991. 202 pp.
*Glass J. B. and Kark, R., ''Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel—The Amzalak Family, 1816–1918.'' Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
*Kark, R., ''American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914.'' Detroit: Wayne State University Press; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. 395 pp.
*Kark, R., ''American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914.'' Detroit: Wayne State University Press; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994.
*Kark, R. and Oren-Nordheim M., ''Jerusalem and Its Environs—Quarters, Neighborhoods and Villages 1800–1948''. Jerusalem: Academon Publishing House, 1995. 528 pp. (in Hebrew).
*Kark, R. and Oren-Nordheim M., ''Jerusalem and Its Environs—Quarters, Neighborhoods and Villages 1800–1948''. Jerusalem: Academon Publishing House, 1995 (Hebrew).
*Amit, I. and Kark, R., ''Yehoshua Hankin.'' Tel Aviv: Milo, 1996. 334 pp. (in Hebrew).
*Dudman, H. and Kark, R., ''The American Colony, Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga.'' Jerusalem: Carta, 1998.
*Dudman, H. and Kark, R., ''The American Colony, Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga.'' Jerusalem: Carta, 1998, 303 pp.
*Kark-Kleiner, R. ''The Pioneering Observation Posts in the Negev.'' Jerusalem:  Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2002 (Hebrew).
*Kark-Kleiner, R. ''The Pioneering Observation Posts in the Negev.'' Jerusalem:  Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2002 (Hebrew).
*Kark, R. and Glass, J. B., ''Seven Generations in Jerusalem:'' ''The Valero Family, 1800-1948.'' Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem and New York, 2005 (Hebrew), 334 pp.
*Kark, R. and Glass, J. B., ''Seven Generations in Jerusalem:'' ''The Valero Family, 1800-1948.'' Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem and New York, 2005 (Hebrew).
*Perry, N. and Kark, R., ''Ethnographic Museums in Israel,'' Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2014 (Hebrew) and English, Israel Academic Press (2017).
*Perry, N. and Kark, R., ''Ethnographic Museums in Israel,'' Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2014 (Hebrew) and English, Israel Academic Press (2017).
*Galilee, E. and Kark, R., ''The Valley of Yizrael/Marj Ibn Amarat the end of the Ottoman Period,'' Hebrew & English, Israel Academic Press, New York, 2017.
*Galilee, E. and Kark, R., ''The Valley of Yizrael/Marj Ibn Amarat the end of the Ottoman Period,'' Hebrew & English, Israel Academic Press, New York, 2017.
*Slae, B. and Kark, R., ''Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter: Heritage and Post War Restoration,'' Israel Academic Press and Amazon, New York, 2018.
* Galilee, E. and Kark, R., ''Transformation of the Jezreel Valley: Marj Ibn 'Amer in the late Ottoman Period'', Israel Academic Press, 2018.
*Slae, B. and Kark, R., ''Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter: Heritage and Post War Restoration,'' Israel Academic Press and Amazon, New York, 2018 (English) + Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2023 (Hebrew).
* Galilee, E. and Kark, R., ''Transformation of the Jezreel Valley: Marj Ibn 'Amer in the late Ottoman Period'' , Israel Academic Press, 2018.
*Amit Cohen, I. and Kark, R., ''Yehoshua Hankin: Two Loves.'' Tel Aviv: Milo, 1996, (Hebrew) + Israel Academic Press, 2023 (English).
*Kark, R, ''The Negev and the Bedouins: nomads, living areas and the land problem, 1800-1967'', Israel Academic Press, New York, 2023 (Hebrew).


===Edited books===
===Edited books===
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==Awards and recognition==
==Awards and recognition==
Professor Kark has received numerous scholarships and awards. These include the Jerusalem Bank award, a [[Fulbright scholarship]] (USA-Israel), and many more. In 2009, Kark and co-author Joseph Glass won an award for their research on the development of banking in Ottoman Palestine.<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/israel/israelis-win-turkish-prize-for-financial-history-research Israelis win Turkish prize for financial history research], [[Jerusalem Post]]</ref>
Professor Kark has received numerous scholarships and awards. These include the Jerusalem Bank award, a [[Fulbright scholarship]] (USA-Israel), and many more. In 2009, Kark and co-author Joseph Glass won an award for their research on the development of banking in Ottoman Palestine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-12-14 |title=Israelis win Turkish prize for financial history research |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel/israelis-win-turkish-prize-for-financial-history-research |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}</ref>


In 2013, Kark was awarded the [[Yakir Yerushalayim]] prize for her contributions to the city of [[Jerusalem]].<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/grapevine-love-at-first-sight-312699 Love at first sight], [[Jerusalem Post]]</ref> In 2014, she received the [[Herzl Award|Herzl prize]] for her research on the settlement in Israel, and in 2016 she was awarded a recognition of gratitude award from the Israeli Geographical Society.
In 2013, Kark was awarded the [[Yakir Yerushalayim]] prize for her contributions to the city of [[Jerusalem]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Hebrew University of Jerusalem |date=2016 |title=Recognition and Awards |url=https://en.social.huji.ac.il/recognition-and-awards |website=Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus}}</ref> In 2014, she received the [[Herzl Award (WZO)|Herzl prize]] for her research on the settlement in Israel, and in 2016 she was awarded a recognition of gratitude award from the Israeli Geographical Society.<ref name=":0" />


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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== External links ==

* {{Google Scholar ID | id= PibCUR4AAAAJ | name= Ruth Kark}}


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Revision as of 22:52, 21 May 2024

Ruth Kark
Born1941 (age 82–83)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationHistorical geographer
SpouseJeremy David Kark
ChildrenRonit Kark, Salit Kark, Guy Kark

Ruth Kark (Hebrew: רות קרק; born 1941) is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Kark is a well-known researcher and expert in the field of the historical geography of Palestine and Israel.[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Ruth Kark (née Kleiner) was born in Herzliya in 1941 to Shoshana Moczan and Avraham Kleiner.

Kark completed her B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, was awarded an MA in 1972 and earned her doctorate in 1977, becoming the first female Israeli geographer with a PhD and a pioneer of historical geography research in Palestine and Israel.[2] Kark's 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).

Personal life

Kark was married to Jeremy David Kark, with whom she had three children.

Academic career

Kark has written and edited more than 20 books and over 250 peer-reviewed 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.[3] More recently, she has published works about women and land ownership in both traditional and modern cultures across the Middle East.[2][4] Kark is often brought into court hearings in Israel as an expert on land disputes and as an academic with a reputation in the field of pre-State landownership in Israel.[5][6]

Published works

Books

  • Kark, R., Frontier Jewish Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Muchad Publishers, 1974 (Hebrew).
  • Kark, R., Neighborhoods in Jerusalem—Building in New Jerusalem and Neighborhoods By-Laws. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1978 (Hebrew).
  • Kark, R., Jaffa—A City in Evolution, 1799–1917. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1984 (Hebrew).
  • Kark, R., Jerusalem Neighborhoods, Planning and By-Laws (1855–1930). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
  • Glass J. B. and Kark, R., Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel—The Amzalak Family, 1816–1918. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
  • Kark, R., American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994.
  • Kark, R. and Oren-Nordheim M., Jerusalem and Its Environs—Quarters, Neighborhoods and Villages 1800–1948. Jerusalem: Academon Publishing House, 1995 (Hebrew).
  • Dudman, H. and Kark, R., The American Colony, Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga. Jerusalem: Carta, 1998.
  • Kark-Kleiner, R. The Pioneering Observation Posts in the Negev. Jerusalem:  Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2002 (Hebrew).
  • Kark, R. and Glass, J. B., Seven Generations in Jerusalem: The Valero Family, 1800-1948. Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem and New York, 2005 (Hebrew).
  • Perry, N. and Kark, R., Ethnographic Museums in Israel, Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2014 (Hebrew) and English, Israel Academic Press (2017).
  • Galilee, E. and Kark, R., The Valley of Yizrael/Marj Ibn Amarat the end of the Ottoman Period, Hebrew & English, Israel Academic Press, New York, 2017.
  • Galilee, E. and Kark, R., Transformation of the Jezreel Valley: Marj Ibn 'Amer in the late Ottoman Period, Israel Academic Press, 2018.
  • Slae, B. and Kark, R., Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter: Heritage and Post War Restoration, Israel Academic Press and Amazon, New York, 2018 (English) + Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2023 (Hebrew).
  • Amit Cohen, I. and Kark, R., Yehoshua Hankin: Two Loves. Tel Aviv: Milo, 1996, (Hebrew) + Israel Academic Press, 2023 (English).
  • Kark, R, The Negev and the Bedouins: nomads, living areas and the land problem, 1800-1967, Israel Academic Press, New York, 2023 (Hebrew).

Edited books

  • Ben-Arieh, Y. and Kark, R., eds. Israel Studies in Historical Geography. A Book Series. Jerusalem: Magnes Press (five volumes, 1989–1997; four of the volumes in press).
  • Kark, R., ed. The Land that Became Israel. Studies in Historical Geography. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1989. 362 pp.
  • Kark, R., ed. Redemption of the Land of Eretz-Israel: Ideology and Practice. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1990. 320 pp. (in Hebrew).
  • Kark, R., ed. Land and Settlement in Eretz Israel 1830–1990. Selected Papers by Prof. Ruth Kark. Jerusalem: The Land-Use Research Institute, 1995. 200 pp. (in Hebrew and English). 
  • Shilo, M., Kark, R. and Hasan-Rokem, G., eds., Jewish Women in the Yishuv and Zionism: A Gender Perspective, Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 2001, 463 pp. (Hebrew).
  • Kark, R., Shilo, M. and Hasan-Rokem, G., Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics and Culture, Waltham, MA.: Brandeis University Press and Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England (updated English version, 2008).

Awards and recognition

Professor Kark has received numerous scholarships and awards. These include the Jerusalem Bank award, a Fulbright scholarship (USA-Israel), and many more. In 2009, Kark and co-author Joseph Glass won an award for their research on the development of banking in Ottoman Palestine.[7]

In 2013, Kark was awarded the Yakir Yerushalayim prize for her contributions to the city of Jerusalem.[4][8] In 2014, she received the Herzl prize for her research on the settlement in Israel, and in 2016 she was awarded a recognition of gratitude award from the Israeli Geographical Society.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Goren, Haim (14 September 2010). "Israeli Scholars since 1970 and the Study of the European Presence in Palestine in the Nineteenth Century (until World War I): State of the Art". In Haider-Wilson, Barbara; Trimbur, Dominique (eds.). Europe and Palestine 1799–1948: Religion – Politics – Society (PDF). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. pp. 55–74.
  2. ^ a b Niza, Yanai (2005). "Interview with Prof. Ruth Kark". In Dahan-Kalev, Henreit; Yanai, Niza; Berkovitch, Niza (eds.). נשים בדרום: מרחב, פריפריה, מיגדר [Women of the South: Space, Periphery, Gender] (in Hebrew). The Ben Gurion Center for the Study of Israel, Ben Gurion University Press and Xargol Publishers. pp. 239–254.
  3. ^ "Turn-of-the-century community," Jerusalem Post, Sue Kerman, Jun 4, 1998
  4. ^ a b Israel Association for Femenist and Gender Studies (27 February 2013). "עיטור יקירת ירושלים לפרופ' רות קרק – האגודה הישראלית ללימודים פמיניסטיים ולחקר המגדר" [Yakir Yerushalayim award presentation to Prof. Ruth Kark]. מאמרים אקדמיים (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  5. ^ Lori, Aviva (27 August 2010). "Reclaiming the Desert". Haaretz. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  6. ^ Kedar, Alexandre; Amara, Ahmad; Yiftachel, Oren (February 2018). Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev. Stanford University Press. pp. 87–118. doi:10.11126/stanford/9781503603585.003.0005.
  7. ^ "Israelis win Turkish prize for financial history research". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  8. ^ a b Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2016). "Recognition and Awards". Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus.
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