Hava Lazarus was born on May 6, 1930, in
Wiesbaden,
Province of Hesse-Nassau,
Weimar Republic (present-day
Germany) to a Jewish family. Her mother was Jadwiga Walfisz, a teacher; and her father was a noted German Rabbi . In November 1938, the Wiesbaden Synagogue, where her father had recently retired from, was destroyed on
Kristallnacht. the title of her Ph.D. dissertation was "The Literary Character of Al-Ghazzali's Writings: Studies in the Language of Al-Ghazzali". She started teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, while she was a student. She served as the head of the Department for Islamic Civilization at Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1968 to 1971. She died on September 6, 1998, in
Jerusalem. == Publications ==