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Alan Benjamin
1954 - 2025
BORN
1954
DIED
2025
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Alan Benjamin Obituary
He graduated High School in 3 years.
Alan lived in Israel for five of the six years following high school, starting when he was 16 years old. He lived at Kibbutz Geshar Haziv.
Alan earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Master of Arts in Psychology (West Georgia College. now State University of West Georgia, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (The University of Haifa, Israel) and attended the University of Toledo.
During Alan's career, he held University positions at The Pennsylvania State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Elon College, Piedmont Community College (Extension Program of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Mercer University in Atlanta and Roxborro Community College.
Alan conducted significant fieldwork experience in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. between1989-1994. Alan is the author of Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity on Curaçao. 2002.
Alan provided mental health counseling services between 1978 -1999. This included for crisis counseling for victims in Chapel Hill through the North Carolina Police department, and telephonic and face to face counseling services to the poor and neediest population through Fulton County Division of Mental Health in Atlanta Georgia.
Alan is survived by his brother Steve Benjamin (Kathy) and nephew Jacob.
If you want to make a donation in Alan's memory, please consider Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo, Anti-Defamation League, Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), or Leket (food security issues in Israel).
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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