Jack N. Lightstone
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Jack N. Lightstone is a Canadian professor of history, and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He took office on July 1, 2006, to serve a five-year term as President and as a professor of history.
Background
Lightstone was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He received his BA from Carleton University in 1972, his MA in 1974 and went on to complete his Ph.D. in 1977 at Brown University in Rhode Island.
He is an expert on ancient and contemporary North American Judaism, has lectured extensively and written six books. He is fluent in three languages - English, French and Hebrew.{{cite web|url=http://www.canadian-universities.net/News/Press-Releases/November_17_2005_Dr_Jack_Lightstone_appointed_new_President_and_Vic.html |title=Dr. Jack Lightstone appointed new President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University |date=November 17, 2015|access-date=November 6, 2018}}
Administrative career
Prior to Brock, he was Provost and Vice-Rector at Concordia University in Montreal, where he is credited. with leading an extensive academic planning overhaul while under budget constraints.
Works
- {{cite book|author1-last=Lightstone |author1-first=Jack N. |title=Yose the Galilean |series=Studies in Judaism in late antiquity |volume=31 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |date=1979 |isbn=9789004059887 |oclc=715735403 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Lightstone |author1-first=Jack N. |author1-mask=3 |title=Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism: a sociology of knowledge |series=Studies in Christianity and Judaism |volume=3 |location=Waterloo |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |date=1988 |isbn=9780889209756 |oclc=243565360 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Lightstone |author1-first=Jack N. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context |series=Studies in Christianity and Judaism |volume=6 |location=Waterloo |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |date=1994 |isbn=9780889202382 |oclc=477137125 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/rhetoricofbabylo0000ligh }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Lightstone |author1-first=Jack N. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Robbins |author2-first=Vernon K. |author2-link=Vernon K. Robbins |title=Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild: a Socio-Rhetorical Approach |location=Waterloo |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |date=2006 |isbn=9780889207295 |oclc=753479530 }}
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External links
- [http://www.brocku.ca/about/senior-administration/lightstone Biography, from university website]
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