Research

    My research focuses on Jewish traditional narratives from a diachronic and comparative perspective. I am interested in the development, transmission, distribution and reception of the Jewish story and its cross-cultural references.

     

    Research Interests:

    Diachronic aspects of Hebrew literature.

    Reception aspects of Hebrew literature.

    The study of the Jewish story and its international affinities.

    Jewish and international folk story.

    Israeli children's literature: poetic and historic aspects.

    Personal narrative analysis.

     

    Supervision  - completed

    Idit Bartov, "The image of Miriam the Prophetess in modern Hebrew literature: a leader, a poet, a rebel", M.A. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2015.  

    Chedva Henig, "The night fell asleep in my room: a compilation of Leah Goldberg's lullabies – themes, poetics and meaning", M.A. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2016

    Tali Schwalb, "From Genre to Anti-Genre: Dialectics as a Driving Force in Israeli Lullabies", M.A. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2016.

    Reichart Chagit, "A diachronic view of the story of Hagar’s banishment: the shifting characterization of Hagar in Jewish versions of the story as a basis for interpretation", M.A. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2017.

    Michael Schonfeld, Representations of Religious Characters in the Short Stories of Savyon Liebrecht, M.A. thesis-equivalent, Bar-Ilan University, 2017.  (co-supervisor: Zvi Mark).

    Sivan Fani Darsan, Representations of Female Images in Rinat Hoffer’s Children's Literature (1995-2015), M.A thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2019.

    Yifat Caharon, Changes in Ester Shtreit Werzel's works, M.A. thesis-equivalent, Bar-Ilan University, 2020.

    Courses

     2022-2023:

    Romantic and Gothic Hebrew Literature (Seminar)

    Hebrew Children's Literature - Introduction (BA class)

    Close Reading in Classic Israeli Literature for Children and Youth (BA class)

     

    Publications

    Books as author (refereed):

    Tohar Vered. Abraham in the Furnace: A Rebel in a Pagan World. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2010. 199 pages [Hebrew].

    Tohar Vered. The Book of Tales, Sermons and Legends (Ferrara 1554): An Anthology of Hebrew Stories from the Print Era, An Annotated Edition. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2016. 200 pages [Hebrew].

    Tohar Vered. Moralizing the Folktale: The Hebrew Story in Pre-Modern Ethical Literature. 200 pages. Accepted for publication at Wayne State University Press. (in print)

    Books as editor (refereed):

    Tell Me About It: Aspects of Narrative Analaysis. Asaf Merav, Heller Erga, Tohar Vered and Kainan Anat (eds.). Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2010. 212 pages [Hebrew].

    Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception, Jewish and Cristian Perspectives Series vol. 31, Houtman Alberdina, Kadari Tamar, Poorthius Marcel and Tohar Vered (eds.). Leiden: Brill 2016. [English].

    Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci as Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation, Peter Barry Hartog, Shulamit Lederman, Vered Tohar and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen (eds.). Leiden: Brill 2020. [English].

    Hebrew Literature for Children and Youth: Language, Poetics and Culture. Tohar Vered and Tamar Wolf-Monzon (eds.). Criticism and Interpretation series vol. 46. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2020. [Hebrew].

    Criticism and Interpretation series vol. 47. Tamar Wolf-Monzon and Tohar Vered (eds.). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2021. [Hebrew].

    Studies in Honor of Prof. Rella Kushelevsky, Criticism and Interpretation series vol. 48, Tohar Vered and Shoshan Moshe (eds.). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2021. [Hebrew]. (In print).

    Criticism and Interpretation series vol. 49. Tamar Wolf-Monzon and Tohar Vered (eds.). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2021. [Hebrew]. (In print).

    Blurred Boundaries in Pre-Modern Texts and Images: Aspects of Audiences and Readers-Viewers Responses. Nissim Dafna and Tohar Vered (eds.). Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture series, Berlin And New York: Walter de Gruyter. 250 pages. [English]. (accepted).  

     

    Books as Author (non-refereed):

    Wolfson Adi and Tohar Vered. Dan Pagis: Myth and Science. Haifa: Pardes (in print). 150 pages [Hebrew].

     

    Books as author, Poetry and Prose:

    Tohar Vered. Snow and Cherries, Ramat-Gan: Bitaon Shira 2018. 75 pages. [Hebrew and Romanian].

    Tohar Vered. Roam No More, Haifa: Pardes 2020. 74 pages. [Hebrew].

    Tohar Vered. A Cat in Salem, Tel-Aviv: Tarsat 2021. 40 pages. [Hebrew].

    Last Updated Date : 24/08/2023