Jane S. Gerber (born 1938) is a professor of Jewish history and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the City University of New York.

In 1955, she finished high school and enrolled at Wellesley College studying the works of French novelist, Marcel Proust.

[1] After receiving her undergraduate education, she continued on at Harvard University where she began to study the relationship between Jewish and Islamic history.

[2] In New York, Gerber continued her work on Jewish-Islamic History at Columbia University and earned her Ph.D. on the interactions between the local population of Fez, Morocco, and the recently immigrated Megorashim.

[7] Her one-volume history of Sephardic Jews of Spain was described as "excellent" and a reviewer noted her strengths in synthesizing much recent research about this people.