Leonard H Ehrlich Author

Leonard H. Ehrlich earned his doctorate degree at Yale University; he was professor of Judaic Studies, professor of Philosophy, and the first director of the Judaic Studies Program (later Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His wife, Edith Ehrlich, earned her master’s at Yale University and her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Both Leonard and Edith were born in Vienna, where they attended school together, and fled the Nazi occupation of Austria—Edith first to England on a Kindertransport and then to the United States, and Leonard directly to the United States. The two were eventually reunited and married when Leonard was drafted into the U.S. Army to serve as a frontline medic on the European front, in which capacity he was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich would be partners and intellectual collaborators for sixty-seven years, until their deaths in 2011 and 2015.

Carl S. Ehrlich earned his doctorate at Harvard University, and he is professor of History and Humanities at York University in Toronto, where he serves as director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies.