Ruth Kark

Ruth Kark (Hebrew: רות קרק‎) (born 1941) is an Israeli scholar and Professor of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Ruth Kark
Born1941
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationHistorian
Spouse(s)Jeremy David Kark

Biography

Ruth Kleiner (later Kark) was born in Herzliya. She completed her B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964. She was awarded an MA in 1972 and earned her doctorate in 1977.[2] Her 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 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 written about women and land ownership in traditional and modern cultures. Kark is often brought into court hearings in Israel as an expert on land disputes.[4]

Published works

Books
  • Frontier Jewish Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuhad Publishers, 1974. 204 pages (in Hebrew)
  • Neighborhoods in Jerusalem — Building in New Jerusalem and Neighborhoods By-Laws. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1978. 88 pages (in Hebrew)
  • The Land that became Israel: Studies in historical geography, Yale University Press, 1989
  • Jaffa: A City in Evolution, 1799-1917, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 1990
  • Jerusalem neighborhoods: planning and by-laws, 1855-1930, Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1991
  • Joseph Glass and Ruth Kark, Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel: The Amzalak Family, 1816-1918, Hebrew University, 1991
  • American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914, Wayne State University Press, 1994
  • I. Amit and Ruth Kark, Yehoshua Hankin. Tel Aviv: Milo, 1996. 334 pages (in Hebrew)
  • Helga Dudman and Ruth Kark, The American Colony, Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga. Jerusalem: Carta, 1998, 303 pages
  • Ruth Kark and Michal Oren-Nordheim, Jerusalem and its environs: quarter, neighborhoods, villages, 1800-1948, Wayne State University Press, 2001
  • The Pioneering Observation Posts in the Negev. Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing, Jerusalem, 2002 (in Hebrew)
  • Joseph Glass and Ruth Kark, Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Jerusalem: The Valero Family 1800-1948, Gefen Publishing House, 2007
  • Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture, with Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Shulamit (FRW) Reinharz, UPNE, 2008
  • Noam Perry and Ruth Kark, Ethnographic Museums in Israel, Israel Academic Press, 2017
  • Bracha Slae and Ruth Kark, Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter: Heritage and Postwar Restoration, Israel Academic Press, 2018
  • Emir Galilee and Ruth Kark, Transformation of the Jezreel Valley: Marj Ibn 'Amer in the late Ottoman Period, Israel Academic Press, 2018

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 pages
  • Kark, R., ed. Redemption of the Land of Eretz-Israel: Ideology and Practice. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1990. 320 pages (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 pages (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 pages (in Hebrew)

Articles
  • Kark, Ruth (Winter 1997). "Mamluk and Ottoman Cadastral Surveys and Early Mapping of Landed Properties in Palestine" (PDF). Agricultural History. 71 (1).
  • "Not a Suffragist"?: Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi on Women and Gender
  • Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, Number 7, Spring 5764/2004, pp. 128–150[5]

Awards and recognition

In 2009, Kark and co-author Joseph Glass won an award for their research on the development of banking in Ottoman Palestine.[6]

In 2013, Kark was awarded the Yakir Yerushalayim prize for her contributions to the city of Jerusalem.[7]

See also
  • Women of Israel

References
  1. Court rejects 6 Bedouin Negev land lawsuits, Jerusalem Post
  2. Hebrew University bio
  3. "Turn-of-the-century community," Jerusalem Post, Sue Kerman, Jun 4, 1998
  4. Reclaiming the Desert, Haaretz
  5. A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies
  6. Israelis win Turkish prize for financial history research, Jerusalem Post
  7. Love at first sight, Jerusalem Post


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