Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Rachel Feldhay Brenner (2 July 1946 – 4 February 2021) was a Polish born Israeli-American literary scholar and writer. She was a professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1]

Brenner was born in Zabrze, Poland in 1946. In 1955 Brenner moved to Israel with her family. She studied at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University; and the University of York in Toronto. Later she moved to Madison, where she became a member of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies in 1992. She became a chair of the department between 2004 and 2007. She was also a member of the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia and a senior fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.^[1][2]

Brenner published eighty articles and seven books. She wrote about Hebrew, Polish, and Canadian literatures. She wrote about subjects including, the ethics of witnessing, the literature of the Holocaust, and relations between Israeli Arab and Jewish writers. She served as the president of the Association for Israel Studies between 2007 and 2009. Brenner was a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and at the time of her death was a board member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.^[3][4][1]

Brenner had two children and four grandsons. She died on 4 February 2021, aged 74.^[1]

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