Visiting Scholars

2006-07

Visiting Faculty: Professor Rachel Albeck-Gidron, Bar Ilan University

Some of her recent publication include: “Exiled and Suppressed Voices: On the Ashkenazi Pronunciation of Hebrew as a Postmodernistic Question,” “On the Poetic Status of Mystical Language in U. Z. Grinberg’s Poetry,” "What is That Homeland Where 'Hoffmanese' Is Spoken? On Genre and he Community in Yoel Hoffmann’s Epics," “Totem and Blindness in Israel in 1998: The Cultural Selection Processes Represented in A.B.Yehoshua’s Ha-Kalla Ha-Meshahreret”, “Who is a Hebrew writer? On National Definitions of Literary Texts" and “The Draft Renounced by History: Appelfeld's Journey into Winter and the Radiance of Noah's Ark as a Healing Discourse." She is currently working on the relations between Eastern and Jewish philosophies and Hebrew literature and on the works of Yoel Hoffmann. Her book The Monadic Epoch: Leibnitz and the Modernism of the 20th Century will be published this year in Bar-Ilan University Press.

Visiting Scholar: Avidov Lipsker, Bar Ilan University

Some of the books published by Professor Lipsker include:

1. A man Between Universe and Symbol: S. Shalom: Symbols in His Poetry, Renaissance, Haifa, 1982. 200 p.
2. Poetic Changes in S. Shalom’s poetry. 1921-1941 <Dissertation> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 1985. 300 pages
3. S. Shalom’s Poetry: From Expressionism of the Third Aliyah to Symbolism, [Editor: Haim Peleg], Poalim Library, 1991. 299 pages
4. Born unto Labor: Avraham Broides Poetry, Haifa University Press and the Ben-Gurion University Press, 2000, 333 pages
5. The Poetry of Yitzhak Ogen : Literary Ecology in Eretz Israel 1930-1940, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2006. 320 pages

2005-06

Visiting Scholar 2005-06: Baruch Podolsky

Born in Moscow, USSR, in 1940. Started his higher studies at Moscow University specializing in Hindi language.After years of struggle was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1971.Studied Semitic and General linguistics at Tel Aviv University where he did BA, MA and PhD (on the historical phonetics of Amharic). Has been teaching at Tel Aviv University since 1973. Besides various courses in Semitic linguistics B.P. has taught several general courses, like phonetics, classification of world’s languages, writing systems, lexicography.Has published papers on Amharic and Hebrew, a small Hebrew grammar in Russian and quite a few dictionaries: Hebrew-Russian, Russian-Hebrew, Hebrew-Amharic, Greek-Tatar – English, Yiddish-Russian (in internet). A big Hebrew-Russian-Hebrew dictionary done by B.P. is available on CD-ROM and in internet.Took part in various linguistic congresses; taught Hebrew grammar at Moscow University. Is now working on a big grammar of Modern Hebrew (in Russian) as well as on a number of dictionaries (Amharic-Hebrew, Judeo-Tat – Russian).

2004-06

Visiting Scholar 2004: Tamar Zewi

Tamar Zewi is a professor of Semitic languages in the University of Haifa. Her major field are Hebrew, Classical and Mediaeval Arabic, Biblical Hebrew syntax, Akkadian of El-Amarna, Ugaritic, Bible translations into Semitic Languages, Tafsir Saadya Gaon. During her the winter and spring quarters she helped us design a Biblical Hebrew class, gave a workshop to our Hebrew instructors and gave a talk on the differences between Modern and biblical Hebrew. Tamar Zwei's web page is: http://research.haifa.ac.il/~tzewi/

Visiting Scholar 2004-06: Maya Arad

Maya Arad has obtained her BA from Tel Aviv University and her PhD in
Linguistics from University College, London. She is the author of numerous
articles, in Hebrew literature and in General and Semitic Linguistics, as
well as a book on the monograph Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpo-Syntax (in press,Kluwer). She is also an award-winning Hebrew author, and her novel in
verse, Maqom Axer ve-Ir Zara (Xargol Press, Tel Aviv 2003) has won wide
acclaim. She has taught at the universities of Harvard, Geneva and St.
Petersburg. To contact Dr. Arad please email her at: marad@stanford.edu