Awards & Winners

Celia Heller

Date of Birth 20-November-1922
Place of Birth Poland
(Europe, Eurasia, Central Europe)
Nationality
Also know as Celia Stopnicka Heller
Celia Heller is an American sociologist born in Poland. Her first book was "Mexican American youth: forgotten youth at the crossroads". This was researched while she was at UCLA and represents the first of three phases of her writing. The second phase of writing is represented by: "Structured social inequality: a reader in comparative social stratification", which a collection of articles some of which she wrote. Her last phase of writing include: sociology of religion book On the Edge of Destruction: Jews in Poland Between the Two World Wars The book is dedicated to her Grandfather, a Rabi, Shaul ben Yitzhak Yosef ha-Kohen Rosenman. She was a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She was president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry 1977-1979.

Awards by Celia Heller

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1978


National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish History
Honored for : On the edge of destruction