Selavan, Ida Cohen (Personal Name)

Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.

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Shiloh, A. Ethnic groups of America ... 1974.

Schwarcz, J. Gam ani mashakhti et ha-ʻagalah, 2002: Hungarian t.p. verso (editors: ... Dr. Selavan Schwarcz Ida) p. 3 (Dr. Ida Selavan Schwarcz)

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stavishche/stavishche.html, viewed 7/21/04 (Project Coordinator: Ida Cohen Selavan (Ida Selavan-Schwarcz))

Gan ani mashkhti et ha-ʻagalah, 2003: t.p. verso (Dr. Ḥayah Śeh-Lavn Shṿarts) added t.p, verso (Dr. Selavan Schwarcz Ida [in rom.])

NUCMC data from Amer. Jewish Archives for Her Papers, 1889-1995 (Ida Sara Cohen was born on June 5, 1930, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to immigrant parents from Ukraine. Her native language is Yiddish. She attended public schools and afternoon Hebrew schools, and graduated from Brooklyn College and Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute in 1951. From 1951-1953, she was a student at the Middle East Institute of Dropsie College. She then went to Israel to complete research for a doctorate at the Middle East Institute of the Hebrew University. While in Israel, she met and married Amos Selavan. She switched majors to English and Secondary Education so that she could teach in the Israeli school system. She never taught in Israel but became the Assistant Editor of Karnenu, the English language publication of the Jewish National Fund. In 1957, Ida and Amos Selavan left for the U.S. so that Amos could continue his studies in psychology. A son, Barnea Levi, was born in 1958 and a daughter, Batya, in 1963. Ida became involved in the Oral History Project of the National Council of Jewish Women and wrote two books: "By Myself I'm a Book" and "My Voice Was Heard." She then enrolled in classes at the University of Pittsburgh and received an M.A. in American History and a Ph.D. in International Education. Her research revolved around the Jewish community of Pittsburgh and its environs. She later enrolled in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, graduated in Dec. 1981, and was hired as a librarian by Hebrew Union College Library in Sept. 1982. Ida retired in 1995 and immigrated to Israel in October that same year. She met and married Dr. Joseph Schwarcz in 1996 and has lived in the Negev ever since. Through the years, Ida Selavan Schwarcz has published books, articles, translations, and bibliographies. Her son, Barnea Levi Selavan, a rabbi, lives in Jerusalem with his wife Shoshanah. They have five children and two grandchildren. Her daughter, Batya Selavan, lives in Greenhills, Ohio)