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Aharon W. Zorea is an American professor of history. Zorea has written numerous books and more than 60 articles and chapters on presidential history and political movements, policy history, local history, and religious/intellectual history.
Background
Aharon W. Zorea was born Aaron James Alexander Wilson on March 5, 1969, in Houston, Texas, the United States, to Moshe Calberg and Rivka Chana Zorea. He was the youngest of three children. Before he was one year old, his family moved from Houston to Anchorage, Alaska and at the age of five, they moved to Tacoma, Washington while his father attended law school. Five years later, they moved to Kfar Chabad, Israel and then to Chico, California, before finally settling back in Anchorage, Alaska.
Education
Zorea attended Bartlett High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 1991. Zorea became a Master of Arts at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana in 1993. He received a Doctor of Philosophy, under Donald Critchlow, from St. Louis University in 2005.
Between earning his Master of Arts and PhD., Zorea taught at several high schools including Holy Rosary Academy (Anchorage, Alaska) and Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan). In the fall of 2004, Zorea was hired as Associate Professor at the Richland Campus within the University of Wisconsin Colleges. He attained the rank of full professor in 2014 after publishing his third book. In 2008, Zorea founded the Richland Heritage Project, which is a local institute located on the UW-Richland Campus and which specializes in digitizing and collecting local oral histories. In 2012, he was elected to the Board of Curators for the Wisconsin History Society. Zorea has written numerous books and more than 60 articles and chapters on presidential history and political movements, policy history, local history, and religious/intellectual history. His most recent books include, Birth Control (Health and Medical Issues Today) (Greenwood Press, 2012), Steroids (Health and Medical Issues Today) (Greenwood Press, 2014), and Finding the Fountain of Youth: The Science and Controversy Behind Extending Life and Cheating Death (Greenwood Press, 2017).
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Religion
Much of the family travel was motivated by religious conviction. Zorea's parents converted to Reform Judaism before he was born, but after ten years the entire family transitioned in Chasidic Judaism. In 1980 they legally changed the family name from Wilson to Zorea (which means, “Sower of Seeds”) and then made Aliyah to Israel. They intended to immigrate and remain in the Jewish Holy Land for life. Barton changed his name to Moshe Calberg Zorea, and Patricia changed her name to Rivka Chana Zorea. His two elder brothers also changed their names, from Barton Taylor Wilson III to Avraham Barton Zorea, and from Derek Leeland Wilson to Isaac Derek Zorea. Aaron’s name remained mostly the same with only a spelling change. The family moved to the village of Kfar Chabad in Israel, which is one of the two centers of Chasidism (the other being in Crown Heights, Brooklyn), where Moshe and the two elder brothers attended Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim. Shortly before Zorea’s thirteenth birthday, Moshe Zorea converted to Christianity, and the entire family followed his lead. Less than a year after arriving in Israel, the Zorea family moved back to the United States and maintained the name change. The story of the family’s religious conversion became the subject of many lectures and a forthcoming book.
Views
Zorea regularly volunteers for area youth groups and libraries. He gives talks for local programs and helps with local activities.
Connections
Aharon Zorea married Debbi Anne Zorea (née Sander) on July 19, 1997, while they were both teaching at Interlochen Arts Academy. They remained married for 17 years and had two children, Jacob Aharon Augustine, and Jonah Charles Athanasius. Debbi was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer in 2008 and after nearly seven years, she passed away on July 16, 2014. Aharon married Emily Zorea on July 18, 2015.