Perla Serfaty | |
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Born | 1944 Marrakesh, Morocco |
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Awards | J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award |
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Education | Ph.D. |
Alma mater | University of Strasbourg |
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Institutions | University of Strasbourg |
Website | https://perlaserfaty.net/ |
Perla Serfaty (pen names, Perla Serfaty-Garzon and Perla Korosec-Serfaty; born in 1944 in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer, and essayist, known in particular for her work on home and intimacy. She is a theorist of domestic intimacy, hospitality and the appropriation of inhabited places,[1] and an expert in environmental psychology.[2] Her book Vieillesse et Engendrements. La longévité dans la tradition juive., dedicated to the traditional Jewish view of longevity as transmitted by the Hebrew Bible, was awarded the J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award in 2014. The contribution of Serfaty's work to environmental psychology was distinguished by her induction in 2018 into the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Hall of Fame.[3]