Celia Heller (20 November 1922 – 15 April 2011) was an

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. She was born in

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Biography

After graduating from

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, in 1950, she entered a graduate program in sociology at

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, earning a Masters in 1952, and a Ph.D. in 1962."Celia S(topnicka) Heller." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Retrieved from ''Biography in Context'' database. Subsequently, she taught at

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, beginning as an assistant professor, in 1964. She became a full professor there in 1972, and retired with emeritus status in 1984. In the course of her career at Hunter College she also taught at the

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. From 1970 to 1971 she was a visiting professor at

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and Bar Ilan University. Her first book was ''Mexican American Youth: Forgotten Youth at the Crossroads'' (

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, 1966). This was researched while she was at

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and represents the first of three phases of her writing. The second phase of Heller's writing is represented by ''Structured social inequality: a reader in comparative social stratification'' (Macmillan, 1968), which a collection of articles some of which she wrote. Her last phase of writing includes ''On the Edge of Destruction: Jews in Poland Between the Two World Wars'' (

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1977). The book is dedicated to her grandfather, the Rabbi Shaul ben Yitzhak Yosef ha-Kohen Rosenman. It won a National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category. She served as president of the

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1977-1979. According to the late Irving Piliavin, Professor and Director Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin School of Social Welfare, as Celia Stopnicka Rosenthal did, she wrote a mimeographed manuscript, ''Toward the Conceptualization of 'Needs, about which there is no further information. She published twice in the ''

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'' and once in the '' British Journal of Sociology''.Rosenthal, C. S. (1955). Functions of Polish trade unions: their progression toward the Soviet pattern. British Journal of Sociology, 6, 264-276. doi: 10.2307/586951; Rosenthal, C. S. (1953). Social stratification of the Jewish community in a small Polish town. American Journal of Sociology, 59, 1-10; Rosenthal, C. S. (1954). Deviation and social change in the Jewish community of a small Polish town. American Journal of Sociology, 60, 177-181.

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