Academic Staff

Prose, poetry, and essayist writing workshops; world literature. cv

 

Prof. Tamar Alexander
Folk literature (tales, proverbs), folkloristic theory, Sephardic culture, magic. cv

 

The work of playwright Nissim Aloni; the literary and essayist work of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky
(Bin-Garion); the inter-relations of literature, folklore, and myth; Jewish literature in Poland / East Europe? and in the United States. cv

 

Haskalah literature; Modern Hebrew literary theory; aesthetics; literary theory. cv

 

Hebrew poetry in Christian and Muslim Spain, types of links between Medieval Hebrew works and Arabic works, strategies for reading Medieval Hebrew texts, and the inter-textual capability of a contemporary reader dealing with ancient works. 

 

Medieval Hebrew poetry: secular poetry, liturgical poetry, and rhymed prose; Hebrew poetry of Spain in the Middle Ages; secular poetry of Provence in the Middle Ages; center and periphery relations in Medieval Hebrew poetry. cv

 

Documentary literature; oral personal narrative; proverb study; folkloristic theory and methodology; Holocaust memory and narrative; lore of Austro-Hungarian and Central European Jews; settlement narrative of southern Israel; Hebrew literature of Israelis of Egyptian origin. 

 

Hebrew literature from 1850 to the present; central issues in the historiography of Modern Hebrew literature: the shaping of space / space construction and the human engineering, socio-typology of Hebrew literature; ethics and poetics; literature, history, and mythology; literary editing and history of the book. cv

 

Dr. Batya Shimony
Modern Hebrew literature; mizrahi writers and writing: the writing of the 2nd and 3rd generation to the immigration to Israel; identity, gender, immigration and immigrants; the representation of the Holocaust in Israeli mizrahi literary discourse.  cv

Reading Modern and Contemporary Hebrew poetry (of the 19th and 20th Centuries) from the perspectives of: gender, nationalism/Zionism/Judaism; literary history. cv

 

Rabbinic literature; the relations between Rabbinic literature and neighboring literatures and cultures (Hellenistic, Early Christian); folkloristic aspects of Rabbinic literature; the presence of the Rabbinic literature in Modern Israeli literature and culture. cv