David Lieber

Lieber and his wife Esther celebrating her birthday in 2006. David L. Lieber (1925-2008), rabbi and scholar, was president emeritus of the University of Judaism (now known as the American Jewish University) and the senior editor of the Etz Hayim Humash. He helped pioneer the Ramah camps, serving as the founding head counselor in the first of the camps in Wisconsin, a director in Maine, the founding director of Camp Ramah in California, and the founding director of the Mador.

Biography Early life David Leo Lieber was born in Poland on February 20, 1925 in the town Stryj (the city is now part of Ukraine). His parents, Max and Gussie Yarmush Lieber, moved with him to the United States, when he was two years old. David and Esther Lieber had four children: Michael, Daniel, Deborah, and Susan. When he stepped down as president in 1993, David Lieber was one of the nation's longest-serving college presidents. Lieber first conceived of the idea of writing the Etz Hayim Humash in 1969,

Awards 2002: National Jewish Book Award in the Nonfiction category for Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary