Stephen Spector
Published Author and Expert on Jewish/Christian Relations
Stephen Spector did his Ph.D. at Yale and is professor of English at SUNY, Stony Brook. He spent many years working with Christian religious literature and the relationship between Christians and Jews, publishing numerous books and articles on these subjects. One of the favorite courses he teaches, called "Christians and Jews," draws on this research. It examines the Bible and Holocaust texts, asking modest questions like Who is God, What does it mean to be Jewish, and What does it mean to be Christian? His work has been awarded several fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other sources, and a prize from the Medieval Academy of America.
Dr. Spector’s most recent book, Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews, represents a departure for him. It tells the untold story behind the story of the Ethiopian Jews’ exodus to Israel, and the suffering and degradation that they endured along the way. It reconstructs the international politics and secret dealings that led to their deliverance, and the obstacles and setbacks that nearly aborted it. And, for the first time, it tells the full story of Operation Solomon itself, the massive, majestic, and astonishingly swift Israeli airlift of 14,310 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in less than a day and half in May 1991. This book is based on over 200 interviews and on previously confidential and classified documents.
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