Alice Shalvi

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Alice Shalvi

Alice Shalvi ( Hebrew אליס שלוי; * October 16, 1926 in Essen ) is an Israeli professor of English literature , feminist and peace activist .

Her father emigrated to England in 1933 and was able to bring his family to join him in May 1934. Shalvi studied English literature at Cambridge University . She earned BA (1947) and MA (1950) and a Diploma in Social Work from the London School of Economics before emigrating to Israel.

From 1950 to 1990 she taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , where she also received her doctorate in 1962 . She founded the Faculty of English at the Negev University in Be'er Scheva (today Ben Gurion University of the Negev ) in 1969 and was head of the Institute for Language and Literature at the Hebrew University from 1973 to 1976. In 1990 she retired.

From 1975 to 1990 she served in an honorary capacity as the director of a progressive high school for religious girls in Jerusalem. In 1997 she was appointed rector of the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, which is part of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

A feminist and women's affairs activist, Alice Shalvi served as the founding chair of Israel's Women's Network, an organization dedicated to improving the status of women in Israel. Alice Shalvi has received several awards for her work, including the Emil Grünzweig Human Rights Prize in 1989 and the Alice Salomon Award in 2001 . She and her husband Moshe Shalvi have three sons and three daughters.

In 2007 she was awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

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  1. ↑ Alice Shalvi, Dov Lautman win Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement , March 26, 2007, Haaretz
personal data
SURNAME Shalvi, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אליס שלוי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Anglicist, professor of English literature, feminist and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH eat