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Prof. Rachel Albeck-Gidron

Telephone
Fax
03-7384170
Email
albeckgidron@gmail.com
Office
building 410, floor 3, room 335
Reception Hours
By appointment
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    Position

    Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew Literature, Associate Professor.

    .Modern & Postmodern Hebrew Literature, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics & Poetics, 

    2006-2007:

    Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, visiting associate professor.

    2012, February-August,   Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, Japan, Research Fellow.

    2017 Universität Potsdam, Philosophische Fakultät, Institure Für Jüdicshe Studien und Religionswissenschat, Visiting Scholar.

    Awards

    Year

    Award

    1986

    Bar-Ilan University Doctoral Committee Award

    1985

    Lady Edith Wolfson Foundation Excellence Award

    1982

    2006

    2017

    2019

     

     

    2020

    Lady Edith Wolfson Foundation Excellence Award

     Stanford University and Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stipend

    S.Yizhar Prize for Research and Teaching of Litrature for :''Exploring the Third Opthion: a Critical Study of Yoel Hoffmann's Works".

    The Israel Science Foundation  (ISF)  Personal Research Grant 2019-2021 for: "S Critical edition of U.Z.Grinberg's 'Masekhet Ha-Matkonet Ve-Ha-Dmut': a Study of the Work's Genesis Through Earlier Mnuscript Drafts and Pringings'.

    The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Award  for the Book: 'Shananism and Literary Criticism'

    Conferences organizer

    Date
    Conference

    January 7-9, 2002

    Bar-Ilan University International Symposium: “Traces, Folds, and Splits: Types of Continuities in the Literature of the Jewish People”

    Spring 2002

    Session on the works of Yoel Hoffman at the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) Annual 2002 Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture

    June 20, 2008

    International Workshop for Ashkenazi Pronunciation, Bar-Ilan University & Stanford university.

    November

    27-28, 2016

    Judaism and Japanese Cultures: Encountering Judaism and Buddhism in Hebrew LIterature. International Conference in Honor of Yoel Hoffmann's Writings. Translations, and Beyond, Doshisha University, Kyoto, and Bar Ilan Univ. Koto.

     

    Academic Journal Editor:

    Criticism and Interpretation, Journal for Interdisciplinary Sudies in Literature and Culture, Bar Ilan University, no. 42, [+S.M]

    PaRDeS, Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, Heft 23 [+N.R. & M.K]

    Editorial Board Membership:

    Mikan: Journal for Literary Studies, Ben-gurion University

    Alpayim Ve'Od: Rethinking Culture in Israel

    Parshanut Ve-Tarbut - Sidra Chadasha, A Series, Carmel Publishing House

    Sifrut Ivrit Avar-Hove Parshanut Ve-Tarbut, A Series, Carmel Publishing House

     

     

    Courses

    Undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative literature:

    1. Literature as a Literary Topic: Theory and Criticism
    2. Modernism and Postmodernism Hebrew Literature

     

    Advanced courses in comparative literature:

    1. Structuralism: Theory and Criticism
    2. The Monadological Novel: Interdisciplinary Course in Literature and Philosophy

     

    Courses in Hebrew literature for undergraduate and graduate students:

    1. The Hebrew Short Story at the Turn of the Century
    2. Diaspora and Migration, Romance and Modernism in the Works of Micah Joseph Berdichewsky
    3. The Writers of the Revival Generation: M.Z. Feierberg, Y.H. Brenner, and U.N. Gnessin

     

    Graduate courses in Hebrew literature:

    1. East and West in Yoel Hoffmann’s Prose
    2. Hebrew and Western Identity in the Hebrew Short Story
    3. Modernism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Israeli Literature
    4. The Debate About the Prosodic Form in Hebrew Poetry
    Publications

    Books authored

    1. The Century of the Monads: Leibniz’s Metaphysics and the Modernism of the 20th Century. Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2007. [in Hebrew].
    2. Exploring the Third Option: a Critical Study of Yoel Hoffmann's Works,  Ben-Gurion University, Heksherim Institute, Dvir [in Hebrew].
    3. Shamanism and Literary Criticism, Magness, Hebrew University Press, [in Print, in Hebrew].

     

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    Last Updated Date : 04/12/2022