.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important))You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hebrew. (June 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Hebrew Wikipedia article at [[:he:חוה לצרוס-יפה]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template ((Translated|he|חוה לצרוס-יפה)) to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Hava Lazarus was born on May 6, 1930, in Wiesbaden, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Weimar Republic (present-day Germany) to a Jewish family.[4] Her mother was Jadwiga Walfisz, a teacher; and her father was a noted German Rabbi Paul Lazarus (Rabbi) [de].[5] In November 1938, the Wiesbaden Synagogue, where her father had recently retired from, was destroyed on Kristallnacht.[5] In February 1939, the Lazarus family emigrated to Mandatory Palestine.[4] She attended Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.[4] In 1954 she married teacher Immanuel Yafeh.[4]
Lazarus–Yafeh graduated in 1950 from Gordon College of Education (formerly Haifa Teachers' College).[4] She completed her BA degree in 1953, and MA degree in 1958 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4] Her Ph.D. was completed in 1966 under the supervision of David Hartwig Baneth [he],[6] the title of her Ph.D. dissertation was "The Literary Character of Al-Ghazzali's Writings: Studies in the Language of Al-Ghazzali".
She started teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, while she was a student.[4] She was a post-doctoral fellow and visiting researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1965 to 1966.[7] She served as the head of the Department for Islamic Civilization at Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1968 to 1971.[4]