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2 unusual facts about Hebrew literature


Azila Talit Reisenberger

She did her first degree (B.A.) at the University of Cape Town where she concentrated on two areas of research: the study of world religions and Hebrew literature.

Isaac Israeli ben Joseph

He was a pupil of Asher ben Yehiel, at whose request (in 1310) he wrote the astronomical work Yesod Olam, the best contribution on that subject to Hebrew literature.


Henrik Bródy

Educated in the public schools of his native town and at the rabbinical colleges of Tolcsva and Pressburg, Hungary, Brody also studied at the Hildesheimer Theological Seminary and at the University of Berlin, being an enthusiastic scholar of the Hebrew language and literature.


see also

Alphabet of Sirach

David Stern, Mark Jay Mirsky (eds.), Rabbinic Fantasies : Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature, Yale Judaica Series (1998).

Amen

These initial amens are unparalleled in Hebrew literature, according to Friedrich Delitzsch, because they do not refer to the words of a previous speaker but instead introduce a new thought.

Doron Mendels

Among the disciplines connected to memory, articles represented the disciplines of law (Nili Cohen), the brain (from the natural sciences: Idan Segev and Hermona Soreq), anthropology (Yoram Bilu and Moshe Shoked), psychology (Amiya Leiblich and Yonatan Slavin), Hebrew literature (Dan Laor), Israeli society and the holocaust (Arye Edrei) and philosophy (Jeffrey Barash).

Galit

Galit Hasan-Rokem, professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joseph Fort Newton

Newton held the honorary degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Literature (Coe College, 1912), Doctor of Divinity (Tufts University, 1919), Doctor of Humane Letters (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1926), and Doctor of Laws (Temple University, 1929).

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

The Hebrew writers of the Haskalah, the Jewish expression of the Enlightenment, greatly admired Luzatto's secular writings and deemed him the founder of modern Hebrew literature.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Many leading scholars of Hebrew literature have published books and papers on his work, among them Baruch Kurzweil, Dov Sadan, Nitza Ben-Dov, Dan Miron, and Dan Laor.

Shosha Goren

Shosha immigrated to Israel in 1951, while on a visit to the United States, she abandoned her position as teacher of Hebrew Literature and Language, and went to pursue her acting career at Brooklyn College in New York.

Todd Hasak-Lowy

Todd Hasak-Lowy is a writer and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida that has a PHD from Berkeley.

Yael Neeman

She studied for her masters degree in Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.