Eliezer M. Wise has been the director of the Tuttleman Library since 2001. Prior to that, he served as director of the Mordecai M. Kaplan Library of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and as associate librarian for technical services at the Gratz College Library. He held various offices in the former local chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries and participated in its national conventions by holding workshops, serving on panels, and presenting a paper.
Wise received his B.A. in history from Yeshiva University and master of library science degree from Pratt Institute.
For more information, contact Eli Wise or call him at 215-635-7300 x159.
Josey G. Fisher, director of the Holocaust Oral History Archive of Gratz College, has graduate degrees in both clinical social work and Jewish studies and has focused her interdisciplinary background on Holocaust research and education for the past 26 yealmost three decades. She received her BA and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and her masters in Jewish Studies with a major in Modern European Jewish History from Gratz College. She is an instructor in Holocaust education at Gratz College, offering a graduate course in "Teaching the Holocaust," an adjunct faculty member of the history department at Moore College of Art and Design, and maintains a private practice.
On three occasions, Fisher coordinated and accompanied Philadelphia teens on the International March of the Living, an intensive Holocaust educational program to Poland and Israel. She is a sought-after Holocaust educator and has served as a consultant for several Holocaust documentary and educational films.
Fisher is a member of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council, the National Consortium on Holocaust Education, and serves as an emissary to the Ghetto Fighters' Museum in Israel for the International Book-Sharing Project. Her book, The Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust contains fifteen accounts of young people, drawn from the Gratz College Archive. Other publications include articles in the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia and the Dimensions magazine of South Florida. She is also a contributor to the four-volume encyclopedia The Holocaust: A Grolier Student Library edited by Geoffrey Wigoder.
For more information, contact her at Josey Fisher or 215-635-7300 x130.
