Dan Miron

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Dan Miron ( Hebrew דן מירון; * 1934 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli literary scholar and critic.

Life

Miron studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia University in New York. He has taught at Columbia University, the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University for forty years , is Emeritus of the Hebrew University, and holds the Leonard Kaye Professorship in Hebrew Literature at Columbia University. He is considered the "doyen of Israeli literary criticism" and an important connoisseur of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. For his writings translated into many languages, he was a. a. awarded the Bialik Prize (1980) and the Israel Prize (1993).

Fonts

  • A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in Nineteenth Century , 1973
  • Ashkenaz. Modern Hebrew Literature and the Premodern German Jewish Experience , 1989
  • HN Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry , 2000
  • The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination , 2000
  • From the Worm a Butterfly Emerges (via Nathan Alterman )

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