Dan Miron
Dan Miron (Hebrew: דן מירון, born 1934) is an Israeli-born American literary critic and author, an expert on modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University.[1]
Awards and critical acclaim
- In 1980, Miron was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.[2]
- In 1993, he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew literature.[3]
The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism." [4]
Published works
- From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (2010)
- The Image of the Shtetl, Syracuse UP (2000)
- A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (1973)
- From the Worm a Butterfly Emerges[1]
See also
References
- 1 2
- ↑ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933-2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2007.
- ↑ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1993 (in Hebrew)".
- ↑ "Music From Her Own Mind; Poetry ," By Isaac Meyers, Jewish Daily Forward, Wed. Sep 19, 2007
Further reading
Amos Goren, Kingdom of Jews, an article about Ven Yash iz gekumen [“When Yash Arrived”], Jacob Glatstein, from Yiddish: Dan Miron, Am Oved Sifriya La'am,"Eretz Acheret" Magazine
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