Celia Stopnicka Heller

Celia Stopnicka Heller (20 November 1922 – 15 April 2011) was a Poland-born American sociologist.

Her last phase of writing includes On the Edge of Destruction: Jews in Poland Between the Two World Wars (Columbia University Press 1977).

The book is dedicated to her grandfather, the Rabbi Shaul ben Yitzhak Yosef ha-Kohen Rosenman.

[4][non-primary source needed] She served as president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry 1977-1979.

[5] 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.