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Curriculum Vitae
Poetry
Researches

 

Hamutal Bar-Yosef

Address at work: Hartman institute, 11 Gdalia Alon st.
Jerusalem, 93103

Address at home: 10 Hatzfira st.
Jerusalem, 93102
+972-2-5638787

Email: baryosef@bgumail.bgu.ac.il






 

 

 CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

B.A        1962, The Hebrew University, Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

M.A       1976, The Hebrew University, Comparative Literature

Ph. D.   1985, The Hebrew University, Hebrew Literature

 

Languages:         Hebrew,English, French, Russian, Yiddish, German.

 

EMPLOYMENT

1983/4 - 1986/7             Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Department of Hebrew Literature; The Department of Comparative Literature.

1987/8 (Fall)                   Visiting Lecturer, Institut National des Langues Orientales, Paris.

1987/8 (Spring)              Lecturer,  Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, The Department of Hebrew Language and Literature

1988-1990                      Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University.

1991                                Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University.

1991/2 (Fall)                   Visiting Professor,  University of Kiev.

1995   (Spring)               Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York.

1996   (Fall)                    Visiting Professor, RSUH University, Moscow.

1997 -                              Full Professor, Ben-Gurion University

1997  (Fall)                     Visiting Professor, RSUH University, Moscow.

1997/8 - 2004                 Hartmann Institute,  Jerusalem.

1998-9                             Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, England.

2002                                                            Fellow, CAJS, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia.

2003                                                            Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2003, September        Emerita, Ben-Gurion University

2004/5                           The School of Education, the Hebrew University; The Hartman Institute.  

 

 


 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

1992/3-1993/4               Chairperson, The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University.

1993                                                                Founder of Program for M. A. in Creative  Writing

1983-1987                                            Editor of Bulletin for High-School Teachers of              Literature, The Israeli Ministry of Education

1975-1979                                            Member of Committee for Literature in High-Schools, The Israeli Ministry of Education.

1989-          Member of editorial board, “Biblioteka Aliya”

1990-     Member of professional committee for literature, The Foudation for Basic Research, The Israeli National Academy of Science.

1994             Member of professional committee for the teaching of literature,  The Israeli Ministry of Education.

1996      Member of high committee  at the Ministry of Absorbsion for Literary Prizes

1995      Counseling: program for literature for adults

1996      Counseling: Buber Program for High Schools

1986      Counseling: Literature for adults, The Open University

1988-1989                      Counseling: Literature in Arab high-schools

1994                                                                 Counseling: modern Hebrew literature for Russian speakers, The Jewish University, Petersburg.

 

 


 

COURSES

Figurative language – theory and practice:Decadence and Symbolism in modern Hebrew literature; Judaism and mysticism in modern Hebrew poetry; Bialik and Russian literature; Femininity and masculinity in Bialik’s poetry; Madness in modern Hebrew literature; Israeli poetry of the 1970s-1980s; Uri Nissan Gnessin and the European context; Ethics in literature; Mysticism in modern Hebrew literature; Jewish identity in modern Hebrew literature.

 

 

 
 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

1981 Association of Hebrew writers in Israel; 1984 Association of composers and writers in Israel; 1985 World Union of Jewish Studies; 1986 Association of Jewish Studies, USA; 1990 Israeli Association of  Russian Studies; 1992 Israeli Association of University Women; 1992 MLA; 1996 ALSC

 

 

 
 

AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

1981, 1982, 1983  Scholarships for  Ph.D. students,  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 1985  The Lee Kennedy Prize for distinguished doctoral thesis; 1985 Dov Sadan  Prize for research. 1987 Dov Sadan grant for publication; 1987  The Yigal Alon Fund grant for distinguished young researchers; 1987  The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Grant; 1987             The International Organization of University  Women, USA. (not used); 1989, 1990  Dean's grant for distinguished scholars, Ben-Gurion 1991 University; The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Grant; The Institute for Jewish-Christian Relations Fellowship.

 


 

PRIZES FOR POETRY

 

1987   ACUM; 1987  The Tel-Aviv Foundation; 1990 The Jerusaelm foundation; 1999  The WIZO prize for the creative woman; 2002 The President’s prize for literature; 2005 The Brenner prize for poetry.


 

 

 

PUBLICTAIONS

(All publications are in Hebrew unless otherwise indicated)

 

BOOKS

 

1987                    Metaphors and Symbols in U.N. Gnessin's Prose Fiction

Hakibutz Hameuchad: Tel- Aviv,  285 pp.

 

1980 (editor),      Aharon Reuveni: Selected Stories,

Agudat Hassofrim: Tel-Aviv, (214 pp.).

 

1981 (editor),      Yaakov Hurgin : Selected Stories,

Agudat Hassofrim: Tel-Aviv (168 pp.).

 

1988                           On the Poetry of Zelda,

                     Hakibutz Hameuchad: Tel-Aviv,  191 pp.

 

1989                The Genre of 'Notes' as a Mediator Between Realism and Symbolism in Hebrew literature, The Katz Institute for Hebrew Literature Research in Tel-Aviv University, 110 pp.

 

1994                Introduction to European Literature of Decadence,

                The Broadcast University: Tel-Aviv, 160 pp.

 

1998     Trends of Decadence in Modern Hebrew Literature,  Beer-Sheva University Press and Jerusalem, Bialik Institute, 416 pp.

 

1999     (editor) An Anthology of Modern Hebrew Literature in Russian Translations

                               RSUH University Press: Moscow, 650 pp.

 

2000       Symbolism in Modern Poetry,

             Hakibbutz Hameuchad: Tel-Aviv, 124 pp.

 

2000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Jewish-Christian Relations in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures: A Preliminary Sketch, The Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley House, Cambridge. (32 pp., English).

 

2005       Kri’ot u-shrikot: Essays, Carmel: Jerusaelem 2005     

                       
2006 Ta’amei ha-kriah: A collection of literary reviews, Tsivonim: Jerusalem.


2006 Mashma’ut ha-ahava: Translation from Russian into Hebrew of Vladimir Solovyov's selected poetry and prose , Carmel: Jerusalem.

 

 

 

In press:

 

Translation into Hebrew of Vladimir Solovyov's selected poetry and prose (2005).

 

Translation into Hebrew of Isaak Babel's complete works

 

 

 

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE VOLUMES

 

1972     ‘Interpretation of “Isaac” by Amir Gilboa’ in Selected Essays on Amir Giboa’s Poetry edited by A. Balaban, Am Oved:Tel-Aviv, pp. 185-186.

 

1980     Preface to Selected Stories of Aharon Reuveni, edited by  Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Yachdav and Agudat Hassofrim: Tel-Aviv, pp. 7-26.

 

1981     Preface to Selected Stories of Ya'akov Khurgin, edited by  Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Tel-Aviv, Yachdav and Agudat Hassofrim, pp. 7-17.

 

1986     'The Gliding Metaphor', in:  U.N. Gnessin - Studies and  Documents, edited by Dan Miron and Dan Laor, Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute 1987, pp. 60-90.

 

1988     'On "A man and his house obliterated', in: Asher Barash - A  selection of critical essays, ed. Nurit Tamir-Smilanski, Tel- Aviv, Hakibutz Hameuchad and Keren Tel-Aviv le'Sifrut u'Leomanut, pp. 145-151.

 

1990     Afterword to The Stories of Ya'akov Hurgin, a selection edited by Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Jerusalem, Keter, pp. 253-270

 

1991     'Plot and Meaning in Alterman's "Simhat Ani'yim" against the Background of Russian Decadence and Symbolism', in: Alterman and Modern Poema, ed. Ziva Shamir and Tsvi Luz, Ramat Gan, University of Bar-Ilan Press, pp. 223-239.

 

1992     'The "dol'nik" metre in "Song of the villages" cycle by Leah Goldberg', in: Yitzhak Bakon Volume ed. Aharon Komem, Ben-Gurion University, pp. 99-116.

 

1992     'The Heine cult in Hebrew Literature of the 1890s and its Russian context', in: The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine, ed. Mark H. Gelber, Max Niemayer: Tübingen, pp. 127-138 (English).

 

1992      'The  structure of A. Reuveni's trilogy "Itsavon"', A. Reuveni - Selected Criticism, ed. Yigal Schwarz, Keter: Jerusalem, pp. 176-206.

 

1992     'The Influence of Decadence on Bialik's Concept of Femininity', Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff, Anne Lapidus Lerner and Anita Norich, New York and Jerusalem, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Harvard University Press, pp. 145-170. (English)

 

1995     'The Birth of Tolerance from Paradox: Chernikhovsky and Gnessin', in: Shaul Chernikhovsky - Studies and Documents, ed. Boaz Arpali, Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute, pp. 217-236.

 

1995     'In the Trap of Equation "Woman=Nature Man=Culture" and Esther Raab's Poem "Holy Mothers in Jerusalem", A View into the Lives of Women in Jewish Societies, ed. by Yael Azmon, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History: Jerusalem, pp. 337-348.

 

1995                'The Israeli Literary Scene', in: Documenting Israel, ed. Charles Berlin, Harvard College Library: Cambridge, pp. 13-28. (English)

 

1998     “ I know Decadence in a different way: Symbolism in A. Appelfeld :Shlosha”,

              Bein Kfor Le-Ashan: Papers on Aaron Appelfeld’s Literary Work, ed. By

              Y. Ben-Mordechai and I. Parush, Ben-Gurion University: Beer-Sheva, pp. 159-169.

 

1999         The -Freudian Hebrew Psychpathology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’, Sadan 4, edited by Avner Holzman, Tel-Aviv University, pp. 37-71.

 

2000        The Moral Status of Sanity in Amos Oz’s Literary Work’, The Amos Oz Volume, edited by Aharon Komem and Isaac Ben-Mordechai,Ben-Gurion University Press, pp. 41-50.

 

2000     ‘Zionism and the Jewish Cosmopitan’, The Age of Zionism, edited by Anita Shapira, Jehuda   Reinharz and Jay Harris, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, pp. 145-166.

 

2000   ‘”Al Hapriha”: Leah Goldberg and Symbolism”, Meetings with a Poetess, edited by Ruth Kartun-Blum and Anat Weisman, Sifriat Poalim: Tel-Aviv,  pp. 98-115.

 

2001      “The Jewish Reception of Vladimir Solovyov”, in: Vladimir Solovyov – Reconciler and Polemicist, edited by J. Sutton and E. van der Zweerde, Leuven: Peters (2nd volume in the series Studies in Eastern Christianity), pp. 363-392. (English). German version: “Die jüdische Rezeption Vladimir Solov'evs”, Ich unde der/die andere in der russischer Literatur ed. By Christina Parnell, Peter Lang, pp. 101-130.

 

2002        “Zionism and Messianism: The Russian context”,  David Hartman Festschrift, edited by Avi Sagi and Zvi Zhohar, Tel-Aviv, pp. 773-801.

 

2003        Interpretations of two poems by A. Gilboa and two poems by Zelda, The modern Hebrew Poem Itself, ed. By S. Burnshaw et als., Wayne State University Press: Detroit, pp. 204-208, 238-242. (English).

 

2004       “Sanctity of the Holy Land: Reflections on Three poems of the Third Aliyah”, The Land of Israel in 20th Century Jewish Thought,  ed. Aviezer Ravitsky, Yad Izhak Ven-Zvi: Jerusalem, pp, 388-398.

 

2005      "An Introduction to mysticism in modern Hebrew literature”, Kabbalah 11, pp. 369-399.

 

 

2005    " Leah Goldberg and the Lithaunian folksong”, Mimerkazim le-merkaz: Festschrift in honor of Nurit Govrin,  ed. by A. Holzman, Tel-Aviv University pp. 437-459.

 

 


 

PAPERS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:

 

1984     'Symbolic Colours in the Stories of U.N. Gnessin', Mekhkerei Yerushalaim be'Sifrut Ivrit 6, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Magness Press, pp. 7-28.

 

1985     'The Semantic Structure of Developed Metaphors in U.N.  Gnessin's Stories', Dapim Lemekhkar Besifrut 2, Haifa University, Department of Hebrew and comparative literature, pp. 152-192.

 

1985     'Structure and Articulation in Psalm 22', Tarbiz 54/3  (Spring 1985), pp. 441-446.

 

1985     'The Poetic Status of Direct Speech in the Stories of Isaac  Babel', Cahiers du monde russe et sovietique 26/2 (avril- juin 1985), pp. 185-192 (English).

 

1986     'Oxymoron and Synaesthesis in Gnessin's Stories', Mekhkerei  Yerushalaim Lesifrut Ivrit 9, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Magnes Press, pp. 49-69.

 

1986     'Babel's "Story of My Dovecot"', Prooftexts  (October 1986), pp. 264-271 (English).

 

1987     'The Relativity of Social Evil in Tschernikhovski's " Kekhom Ha'Yom"', Dapim Lemekhkar Besifrut 3, Haifa University, pp. 84-96.

 

1988     'Was M.Z. Feierberg a Romanticist?', Bikoret U-Farshanut 36 ,  Bar-Ilan University, pp. 87-116.

 

1988     'Is Simile Similar to Metaphor?', Mekhkarei Yerushalaim  Lesifrut Ivrit 11, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Magness Press, pp. 201-212.

 

1988     'Speech in Metaphor', Language and Style 21, no. 3, pp. 286-299. (English. Abstract in: Sociological Abstracts).

 

1989     'Bibliographical Notes to Zelda's Poetry', Kiriat Sefer  61, pp. 911-918.

 

1990     'The Hyphenated Binomial in the Works of U. N. Gnessin', Hebrew Linguistics 28-29-30 (January 1990) ed. Maia Fruchtman and M. Z. Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University Press, pp. 91-102.

 

1990  'Neo-Decadence in Israeli poetry 1955-1965: the case of  Nathan Zach', Prooftexts 10, pp. 109-128 (English).

 

 

1990  'The Influence of Russian Decadnece on Bialik's poetry', 10th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C vol. ii, Jerusalem 1990, World Union of Jewish Studies, 144-150.

 

1990     'Palestine pre-israelienne refleteé dans l'humour de Yakov Hourgine', Humoresques 1, Paris viii, pp. 65-74. (French)

 

1991     Neo-Decadence in Israeli poetry', Bikoret U-farshanut, Bar-  Ilan University 27, 125-152.

 

1991      'Bialik's "Givolei Eshtaked" as a Symbolist Poem', Ahshav 56 151-160.

 

1991     'Brenner's Conception  of the Term “decadence”’, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 1, Ben-Gurion University and Ben-Gurion Research Institut, pp. 496-522.

 

1991        'Was Haim Lenski a Shlimazl?', Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pp. 48-54 (English).

 

1992     ‘A Humorous View of Jewish and Arab Life in Palestine: Yaakov Hurgin’s Stories’, Shofar 11/1, pp. 38-50.

 

1992  'Heine Cult in Hebrew against the Background of Russian  Literature', Dapim Le-Mekhkar Be-Sifrut, Haifa University, pp. 319-331.

 

1992     'Romanticism and Decadence in Hebrew 'Revival' Literature,  Mekhkerei Yerushalaim Le-Sifrut Ivrit 13, pp.171-210.

 

1992     'A Humorous View of Jewish and Arab Life in Palestine: Ya'akov Hurgin's Stories', Shofar - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 11 no. 1, pp.38-49. (English)

 

1993     'The Crisis of "Sobornost'" in Bialik's Poetry', Jews and Slavs 1, ed. by Wolf Moskovich, Shmuel Shvarzband and Anatoly AlekseevNauka and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: , Jerusalem - St.Petersburg, pp. 331-341. (English)

 

1993     'Bialik's Poetry Against the Background of the Tension Between 'Togetherness' and 'Egoism' in Russian Thought', Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 3, pp. 205-223.

 

1994     'The Meaning of the Ugly and the Abominable in Bialik's Poetry', Sadan - Studies in Hebrew Literature vol. 1, Tel-Aviv University, pp. 155-172.

 

1994     'Speech in Metaphor', Balshanut Ivrit 37, University of Bar-Ilan , pp. 67-74.

 

1994     'Romanticism and Decadence in the Hebrew "Literature of Revival"', Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, pp. 146-181.  (English).

 

1994     'Berdichevski and European Decadence', Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, Volume iii, pp. 114-121.

 

1995     'Bialik and the Baudelairian Triangle: Ennui, Cats and Spiders', Jewish Quarterly Review,  4, pp. 362-378. ( English).

 

1996      ‘De-Romanticized Zionism in Modern Hebrew literature’, Modern Judaism 16, pp. 67-79. (English)

 

1996     ‘Reflections on Hebrew Literature in the Russian Context’,  Prooftexts  16, pp. 127-149. (English)

 

1996               Bialik and the Russian Revolutions’, Jews in Eastern Europe 1 (29) (Spring 1996), 5-31.

 

1997                         ‘The Decadent Context of Hebrew Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’, Alpayim 13, pp. 173-2000.

 

1998  ‘Love, Sexuality and Jewish Ethics in Bialik’s Poetry, Bikoret            U-Farshanut 33, pp. 87-107.

 

1999                    ‘Is Israeli Poetry a Jewish Literature?’, Arakhim Vehinukh Le’Arakhim (Values and Education) 8, The Hebrew University and The Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, pp. 233-241.

 

2000                 ‘Baudelaire in Hebrew Literature’, REEH: 50 Years of Israeli Literature, Paris, vol. ii, pp. 13-22.

 

2001                 ‘Apocalypticism in the Poetry of  H.N. Bialik and N. Alterman’, Trumah 10 , pp.41-58.

 

2002              “The attitude of  haskalah literature to Judaism”, Akdamot  12 , pp. 111-123.

 

            “Stikhi Bialika v perevodakh Aleksandra Gorskogo”   2002 

Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta 7 (25), pp. 295-334.

 

2003    “Sophiology and the concept of Femininity in Russian symbolism and in modern Hebrew poetry”, Modern Jewish Studies 2/1, pp. 59-78.

2004    “The Reception of Leonid Andreed in Hebrew and Yiddish Literature and Theatr”, Huliot (Winter), pp. 329-345.

 

2004 “Introduction to Mysticism in Modern Hebrew Literature”, Kabbalah 11, pp. 369-399.

                                                                                                                                  

 2004      “The Divine Woman in Bialik’s Poetry”, Shefa Tal: Studies in Jewish Thought and Vulture presented to Bracha Zak, Ben-Gurion University: Beer-Sheva, pp. 397-410.

  

2005        “Personal Inter-relations as a Mystical Goal in Hebrew Zionist Literature”, Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought: Festscheift in Honor of Joseph Dan on the Occation of his Seventieth Birthday, edited by Rachel Elior and Peter Schäfer, Mohr Siebeck: Tǖbungen  2005, pp.197-224.

 

 

 

ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
 

1980     'The Relations between the three parts of A. Reuveni's  Itsavon', Yediot Aharonot 31.3.1980, 4.4.1980 , 11.4.1980.

 

1983        'Douze Faces d'un Poète - anthologie retrospective de  Dan Pagis', Yod - Revue des études modernes et contemporaines hébraïques et juives, vol. 18,  pp. 85-90. (French).

 

1984     'Music and Paintings in Gnessin's Stories' (including photographs of pictures and musical notes of works mentioned in Gnessin's Stories), Mozna'im 58/3-4 (Summer 1984), pp. 31-36.

 

1985     'On Zelda's Poetry', Mibifnim 46, pp. 569-573.

 

1988     'Portraits of the Other in Zelda's poetry', Davar,  24.9.1986, 19.10. 1986.

 

1987     'Zelda: Kingdom', Mozna'im, 60/ 8-9, pp. 48-51.

 

1988     'The Reflective style in Zelda's poetry', Mozna'im 62/ 2-3 (May-  June 1988), pp.45-48.

 

1988     'Babel translated', Massa (Davar), 21.1.1988.

 

1988     'The Days of Awe in Agnon's "Fernheim"', Massa  (Davar), 22.7.1988.

 

1988     'Women  in "Three days and a Child" by A. B. Yehoshua : the story and the film', Proza 103-104, pp. 67-70.

 

1988     'A reading of "The Meal before the Feast" by U. N. Gnessin', Alon Lamoreh Lessifrut 9, pp. 63-73.

 

1989     'On " From Palace to Palace" and "Every  Rose" by Zelda',  Alon Lamoreh Lessifrut 10, pp. 36-47.

 

1989     'Lucidity - on Yair Hurvitz's Early Poetry', Yediot Aharonot, 18.8.1989.

 

1989     'In  Praise of Using Metaphors in School Discourse', Maba  Vada'at Bilshonenu, Ma'alot, pp. 100-104.

 

1990     'The Grace of Humour' (on Ya'akov Hurgin's stories), Ha'aretz 23.2.1990.

 

1990      'Bialik i russkaja literatura' (Russian),  Ariel 3 pp. 24-50.

 

1990     'Bialik and Russian Poetry', (English),  Ariel 82, 47-63.

 

1990     'Bialik and Russian Poetry', Moznaim 54 no. 9-10, pp. 38-46.

 

1995     'Aus den eigenen Quellen trinken: Bialik und die russische Lyrik' (German), Via Regia (Thuringen - Moskau, March 1995), pp. 38-51.

 

1993                                                                             1995  ‘Sto rokiv novoi ivritstoi literaturi’ (A hundred years of Hebrew literature), Vsesvit  12 (804), pp. 219-225 (Ukraine).

 

1996        ‘The Non-Romantic Face of Nature in Bialik’s Poetry’, Moznayim 70/8,                       pp. 15-24.

 

1997                    ‘Interpretation as Autobiogrphical Confession: Dan Miron’s Biblio-Erotic Contact with U. N. Gnessin’, Moznayim 72/3, pp. 20-23.

 

1998                         ‘Does Man Believes like the Cat Licking its Fur?’, Dimui 15 , pp. 3-4.

 

1999                         ‘On the Sufferings of the Creative Woman’, Bamat Ha-isah 191, p. 18.

 

2000         ‘Hebrew Literature as a Bridge Between Israeli Culture and Immigrants from Russia’, Kivunim Hadashim 2, pp. 90-87.

 

 

           

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

 

'Guri, Hayyim', 'Pagis, Dan', in: The Hebrew Encyclopedia,  vol.  34 (1977), pp. 344-345, 921-922.

 

“Hebrew literature”, “Yiddish literature”, “Solovyov, Vladimir”, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian relations, ed. Edward Kessler (in press).

“M.Z. Feierberg”, “U.N. Gnessin”, “Akim Volynsky”, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. By Gershon Hundert (in press)

 

 

GUIDANCE BOOKS FOR HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHERS

 

1976     Israeli Poetry  (Interpretations and suggestions for  teaching poems by Guri, Zamir, Pagis, Rabikovich, Rivner), The Ministry of Education, The Curriculum Center.

1978     Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', Tel-Aviv, Mishlav.

1980     Childhood and youth (Interpretations and suggestions for  teaching stories by Feierberg, Burla, Chechov), The Ministry of Education, The Curriculum Center.

1980     Chernikhovsky's idylls, The Ministry of Education, The  Curriculum Center.

1981, 1993  Yerushalayim - Shkhina U-Shkhenut  (Jerusalem - Interdisciplinary program for high-schools), The Ministry of Education, The Curriculum Center.

1982     Sound patterns in Hebrew Poetry, The Ministry of Education,  The Curriculum Center.

1983     Literature and film, The Ministry of Education, The  Curriculum Center.

1985     Three Stories by Isaac Babel, The Ministry of Education,  The Curriculum Center.

  

 

 

LITERARY CRITICISM IN LITERARY SUPPLEMENTS AND JOURNALS (a selection):
 

'Spaces of comic inventions', (on Gogol's "Ukrainian Stories"  trans. Nili Mirski), Yediot Aharonot, 22.8.1980.

'Mystery - Hamsun's ideological novel", Yediot Aharonot,  31.10.1980.

'Scandalous editing of  old translations', Yediot Aharonot,  31.10.1980.

'Twelve faces of a poet' (on  Pagis' Poetry), Yediot Aharonot,  15.1.1982.

'On  Shlomit Rimmon-Kenan's "Narrative Fiction - Contemporary  Poetics", Siman Kriah 18 (1986), pp. 432-434.

On M.J. Berdytchevsky's 'The Relation between Ethics and  Aesthetics', Yediot Aharonot, 12.12.1986.

'On D. Vogel's "Marriage Life", Yediot Aharonot,  8.5. 1987, 15.5.1987.

'On Ziva Shamir's "Ars Poetica in Bialik's Poetry", Davar, Massa  22.4.88.

'Who is Ya'akov Hurgin?', Davar, 23.2.1990.

'Peredenovshchina' (on Fedor Sologub's novel Little Demon),  Yediot Aharonot, 5.10.1990.

'Academic Edition' (Bialik's Poetry, ed. Dan Miron), Yediot  Aharonot, 30.11. 90.

'Bastav Efshar Legadel Tanin Ba'Ambatia' ('In the Winter You Can  Raise a Crocodile in Your Bathroom'. On Shlomo Zamir's book of poetry 'Kadurim Ve'Kubiot'), Yediot Aharonot, 21.6.1991.

'Hashtahim Hametim shel Habikoret' ('Dead Areas of Criticism', on Yehoshua Perle's 'Yehudim Stam'), Ha-Arets, 30.10.92.

'Bialik as a Russian Symbolist', Ha-Arets, 19.3.1993.

'Ha-zakan ha-arokh ve-ha-lavan shel ha-meshorer: al sifrut kinevuah' ('On literature as prophesy'), Ha-Aretz - Tarbut ve-Sifrut, 6.10.93, p. B8.

'Ha-Khet Ve-Onsho: Etgar Limetargemim' ('"Crime and Punishment" : A Challenge for Translators'), Yediot Aharonot Literary Supplement, 29.10.1993, p. 37.

'Lihiot Adam Meyutar Begil 43' ('To be a Superfluous Man at 43' - on Turgeniev's 'Parents and Children' and its translations into Hebrew), Yediot Aharonot Literary Supplement, 29.4.1994, pp. 30-31.

'Keitsad Haya Bialik Kotev Al Ha-Shoah?' ('How would have Bialik Writen on the Holocoste'?), Sfarim - Ha-Aretz 92, 30.11.1994, pp. 10, 14.

'Nissui be-mistika shfuia' ('An experiment in sane mysticism'), Yediot Aharonot Literary Supplement, 8.9.1995, pp. 29-30.

'Zerem Hadash' ('A New Stream', On Admiel Kosman's 'Ma Ani Yakhol'), Sfarim - Ha-Aretz 137, 11.10.1994, p. 11.

‘The Value of Uncertainty’, on Reuven Tsur’s Text, Reader, World, Moznayim  71/1, pp. 53-54.

‘Between Impulsive Vengeance and Difficult Restraint: On the Moral Code of Cain Story’s Writer’, Haaretz Literary Supplement, 21.1.2000, p. B15 (also in the English version of Haaretz, same date).

On Iz evreiskikh poetov by V. Khodassevich’s (edited by Zoya Kopelman), Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta 2 (20), 1999, pp. 366-369 (Russian).

On Avraham Balaban’s Shiv’ah , Yediot Aharonot Literary Supplement, 28.7.2000, p. 27.

On Zvia Ginor’s Binso’a Ha’aron, Yediot Aharonot Literary Supplement, October 2000.

 

 

 

TRANSLATIONS INTO HEBREW:

 

 From Russian:

 

A. Books:

 

1998    Mizmorim Yeshanim by Olga Sedakova,  Jerusalem, Carmel.

 

 

2000    Al kesef, zikna u-mavet by Yulia Viner, Jerusaelm, Carmel.

 

B. Stories

 

1977  Isaac Babel, 'Froym Gratch' (short story), Iton 77, June-  July, p. 1, 5.

 

1982 'Sunstroke' (short story), Moznaim 51 (Winter), pp. 19-21.

 

1984  Anton Chekhov, 'Trivialities' (short story) Att, p. 92-95.

 

1984 Isaac Babel, 'Gedali' (short story), Al Hamishmar, 16.11.1986 p. 16.

 

1985 Isaac Babel, 'The King' (Short story), Moznaim 59 (Autumn),  pp. 24-25.

 

1989 Chingiz Aitmatov, 'The Gallows' (an extract from a novel),  Yediot Aharonot, 8.9.1989.

  

 

 From English:

 

Poems by Shirley Kaufman,  Yediot Aharonot, 10.1.1984; Moznaim 60 p. 9; Iton 77 74-75 (March-April 1986), p. 19.

 

Poems by Esther Kamerun,  Yediot Aharonot, 29.6.1984; Ma'ariv,  8.2.1985; Or Mudrag (Hakibutz Hameuchad 1985, one poem).

Poems by Kathryn Hellerstein, Iton 77, 2003.

 

From French:

 

1992: Verlaine, 'Art poetique', Ha-Arets, 18.10.1992; Mallarme, 'Brise marine, Ha-Arets, 23.10.1992; Verlaine, 'Langueur', Ha-arets, 27.11.1992.

 

  

POETRY BOOKS

 

Lulei haya alay lemaher, Mili: Tel-Aviv, 1971.

Lakahat Avir , Masada: Ramat Gan, 1978.

Rak Hayarok, Hakibbutz hameuchad: Tel-Aviv, 1981.

Matanot Koftsot, Hakibbuts hameucha: Tel-Aviv, 1884

Bakayits zeh ya-avor (for children), Keter: Jerusalem, 1984.

Uvatsfifut, Hakibbuts hameuchad: Tel-Aviv, 1990.

Halo, Carmel: Jerusalem., 1998.

Laila, Boker (poems and translations from Russian and French), Carmel: Jeruslaem, 2000.

Mazon, Carmel: Jerusaelm, 2002.

Havraah, hakibbutz hameucahd:Tel-Aviv, 2004.

Pishcha (translations into Russian by Yulia Viner), Akademicheskii Projekt: St. Peterburg.