Editing Judith Lieberman (section)

{{short description|American educator (1904–1978)}}
{{distinguish|Judith Malika Liberman|Judith Weinshall Liberman}}
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Doctor '''Judith Lieberman''', (August 14, 1904 — December 1978),<ref>{{Cite web |date=1978-12-22 |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/123545194 |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=New York Times |id={{ProQuest|123545194}} |language=en}}</ref> was an American educator and school administrator. She served as Hebrew principal and later dean of Hebrew studies of [[Shulamith School for Girls]] in [[New York City]], the first Jewish day school for girls in North America. Her tenure there started in 1941 and lasted over 25 years.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Judith Berlin Lieberman |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lieberman-judith-berlin |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}</ref>

She was the granddaughter of Rabbi [[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]], daughter of Rabbi [[Meir Berlin|Meir]] [[Bar-Ilan]] (leader of the [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]]), and second wife of Jewish religious scholar [[Saul Lieberman]].<ref name=":0"/>

Lieberman spent World War I with her paternal grandmother, the unofficial administrator of the [[Volozhin Yeshiva|Volozhiner Yeshiva]]. She joined her immediate family after the war in the United States, and graduated from New York City public high school. Lieberman studied for her bachelor's degree at [[Hunter College]] and then moved to [[Columbia University]] under Professor Hates and Professor David S. Muzzey. She completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in [[comparative literature]] at the [[University of Zurich]] in 1931.<ref name=":0" />

In 1932, she married Saul Lieberman, who had been widowed two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rakeffet-Rothkoff |first=Aaron |date=2007 |title=A Note on R. Saul Lieberman and the Rav |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23263520 |journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=68–74 |jstor=23263520 |issn=0041-0608}}</ref> She spent the remainder of the decade in [[Jerusalem]] with her husband, and then moved back to New York's [[Upper West Side]] with him. She quickly gained a position at Shulamith, then based in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]].<ref name=":0" />

Among her publications were ''[[Robert Browning]] and [[Hebraism]]'' (1934), and an autobiographical chapter which was included in ''Thirteen Americans, Their Spiritual Autobiographies'' (1953), edited by [[Louis Finkelstein]].<ref name=":0" />