Dr. Rachel Albeck-Gidron

Position

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

Senior Lecturer. 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, Research Fellow, Graduate School of Letters,.

Education

Awards

Academic positions

Special seminars

Conferences organizer

Editorial board membership

Member since 2004, Bikoret u’Parshanut (Criticism and Interpretation), Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture, Bar-Ilan University Press

Public Activity

The Education Ministry Comity for Public Culture Sal Tarbut.

Teaching experience

Introductory courses in Hebrew literature and comparative literature:

Writing an Academic Paper & Library Instruction

Books authored

1. The Century of the Monads: Leibniz’s Metaphysics and the Modernism of the 20^th Century. Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2007. [in Hebrew].
2. Shamanism and Literary Criticism, Resling Publishing, [in Print, in Hebrew].

Chapters in books

1. “The ‘Third Text’: The Theoretical and Methodological Principle in the   Research of Comparative Versions of Berdichewsky’s Urva Parach, Sedan: Studies in Hebrew Literature (Avner Holtzman Ed.), Vol. 4, p. 323-352, Tel Aviv University, 2000.
2.  "Shamanism and Poetry: Dalia Rabikovitch's Writings as a Test Case", in:  A Selection of Studies on Dalia Rabikovitch's writings, (Hmutal Zamir and Tamar Hess Ed.) Heksherim Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & Keter Publishing House, (in print) 12 pages.
3.  Annotated Introduction [in] Uri Nissan Gnessin, Besides & Other Stories, New Milford, CT, USA: Toby Press (Introduction pp. VII-XXX), 2005.
4.  [with Avidov Lipsker] “Gnizin Elef Heichalin de-Chsifin: An Index to Uri Zvi Greenberg’s footnotes to Book of Zohar” in: Uri Zvi Greenberg - Studies. (Hannan Hever Ed, Bialik Institute, 2008. pp. 245-292.
5.  [with Avidov Lipsker] “Kad Havina Talia: On the Poetic Mystical Language in Uri Zvi Greenberg’s Poetry”, in: Studies on the Works of Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hannan Hever Ed., Bialik Institute, 2008. pp. 224-244.
6.  "Yoel Hoffmann's Monograph", in: The Lexicon of Israeli Writers, Heksherim Institute for Research of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University. [in print. in Hebrew].

Articles

1. “How One Smiles with Dolores: On the Faculties of Observation and Their Presence in the Humorous Patterns of Yoel Hoffman’s ‘How do you do Dolores?’” Zafon 6, Annual of the Association of Hebrew Writers, (2000) pp.33-48
2. “Phatic and Non-Phatic Ideas”, Bikoret u’Parshanut 37, Language, Thought, and Culture (2003), p. 195-206.
3. “Exiled and Suppressed Voices: On the Ashkenazic Pronunciation of Hebrew as a Postmodern Question,” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 19, Magnes Press, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pp.65-91 [in Hebrew]
4. “Where is This Homeland Where Hoffmanese Is Spoken? On Genre and the Community in Yoel Hoffmann’s Epics”, Zafon 7, Annual of the Association of Hebrew Writers, pp. 40-50 [in Hebrew]
5. “Totem and Blindness in Israel of 1998: The Cultural Selection Processes Represented by A.B.Yehoshua’s The Liberating Bride, Mikkan 4, Journal for the Research of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University Press, pp. 5-19. [in Hebrew]
6. “The Draft Renounced by History: Appelfeld’s The Journey Into Winter and the Radiance of Noah’s Ark as a Healing Discourse”, Mikan 5, Journal for the Research of Hebrew Literature Cambridge University Press and Ben-Gurion University Press, (January 2005), pp. 57-67. [in Hebrew]
7. “Everything Has a Name, and For the Name Itself, There’s a Name: Onomatopoeia as a Wish in Yoel Hoffmann’s The Heart is Katmandu” in Bikoret u-Parshanut 37, Language, Thought, and Culture (2004) pp. 195-206. [in Hebrew]
8. “On the Question of ‘Who is a Hebrew Writer?’ and On the Hebraism of Yoel Hoffmann’s Writings”, Proof Texts, A Journal of Jewish Literary History, New York: J.T.S, 14 pages [in print, in English]
9. "Per se stesso: Il responsabile delle risorse uname, l'ultimo di una sequenza " Lopera Litteraria Di A.B. Yehoshua [in Italian], p. 15-15., Einaudi ,2007.
10. "Nationality and Addressees: the case of Yoel Hoffmann", Bikoret u-Pashanut, Aesthetics and Poetics, 42, 2010. pp. 294-310. [in Hebrew].
11. ''Die Persiflage abendländicher Philosophie im Werk Yoel hoffmanns'',             Schriften der Gesellschart für europäische–jüdische Literature, Band 2: Rück-blick auf Deutschland, Anat Feinberg (HG.) Breet+k, Edition text+kritik, Munchen, 2009. pp. 132-150.
12. ''Who Accompanies You? – On Certain Recurring Paradigms in the Woks of A.B. Yehoshua'', in: Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on A.B. Yehoshua's Oeuvre, Ed. Amir Banbaji, Nitza Ben-Dov and Ziva Shamir, Hakibutz Hameuchad, Poalim, (Academically peer-reviewed), 2010. pp. 337-345. [in Hebrew].
13. ''A Mental Library, Textuality and Community Affiliation: The Work of Ronit Matalon as a National Voice'', Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 23 pp. [in Hebrew, submitted].
14. ''The Lexicon and the Flood: Aaron Appelfeld and the Discourse of Survivors from the First Arc'', From Myself to Myself, New Readings of Aharon Appelfeld's Writings, Bar Ilan University press,  9 pp. [in Hebrew, in print].
15. "The Holocaust as a Transformed Presence in Yoel Hoffmann's Texts", PaRDes , Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies, 29 pages,  [in print].
16. ''The Politics of Ashkenazi Pronunciation'', Poetics Today: A Journal for Theory and Analysis of literature and Communication, Porter institure, Tel Aviv University, ed. Hanna Wirth-Nesher.  20 pages [in print].

Non-refereed articles

“I’ll Tell You Crazy Words, Pay insane Attention to Them: A Review of Yoel Hoffmann’s The Shunra and the Schmetterling”. ha-Aretz Weekend Supplement p. 6, Nov. 4, 2001.

Conferences

Papers presented

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