Suzanne D Rutland

Suzanne D. Rutland, OAM, BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD, Dip Ed, Professor Emerita, Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, expert on Australian Jewry, is past president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies, patron, the Australian Jewish Historical Society and Sydney editor of the AJHS Journal. Let My People Go: The Untold Story of Australia and Soviet Jews, 1959-1989, with Sam Lipski, was the joint recipient of the 2016 PM’s Literary Award (Australian History). Her latest books are Lone Voice: The Wars of Isi Leibler (Hybrid 2021) and, with Professor Zehavit Gross, Special Religious Education in Australia and its Value to Contemporary Society (Springer 2021 In 2008, she received the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Higher Jewish Education and interfaith dialogue. As a member of the Australian Delegation to IHRA she serves on the Education Working Group and the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial.

In 2024, she was elected as a director of the Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, established post 7 October to counter campus antisemitism.

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