Early Life and Education
David is the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner and his rebbetzin, Masha Lipshitz. Her parents married in 1933 and moved to Palestine, but returned to New York a year later, where Bruria was born.
She received her doctorate in history from Columbia University in 1971 as a student of Salo Baron. Her dissertation, titled The Dual Role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes: Traditionalist and Maskil, demonstrates a thorough mastery of the secondary material, and deals with Rabbi Chajes's relationships in the traditional world of Orthodox Judaism.
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