Dov Noy
Dov Noy (born October 20, 1920 in Kołomyja , Stanisławów Voivodeship , Poland ; died September 29, 2013 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli folklorist and storyteller . To this day he is considered one of the most important researchers in the field of Jewish folk tales.
Life
Dov Noy was born as Dov Neuman in Kołomyja, Galicia, in a Zionist family. As a boy he attended the cheder and later a Polish high school. He originally wanted to study medicine, but changed his plans due to the prevailing anti-Semitism in Lviv and emigrated to Palestine in 1938 . - With the exception of himself and his brother Meir, who emigrated to Israel in 1948 , and a few distant cousins, his family fell victim to the Holocaust. - Dov Noy studied Talmud , Jewish history and the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . During the Second World War he served in the British Army from 1941 to 1945 . In 1947 he was a teacher in British internment camps in Cyprus . 1949-1952 he was a member of the editorial team of the union newspaper Dawar and together with Shimshon Melzer published a weekly magazine for children Dawar . With a scholarship from the US government, he studied comparative literature and anthropology from 1952 to 1954 , first at Yale University with René Wellek , then at Indiana University . He wrote his doctoral thesis under his original name Dov Neuman under the guidance of Stith Thompson . It is entitled "Motif-Index of Talmudic-Midrashic Literature" and deals with rabbinic literature .
After returning to Israel, he began his career as a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1955, where he taught Aggada , popular literature, general folklore and Yiddish . He became a world-renowned expert on folklore and is still considered one of the most important researchers in the field of Jewish folk tales to this day. In Haifa in 1955 he founded the Israel Folktale Archives , which is named after him today. He was also director of the Museum of Ethnology and Folklore in Haifa for many years. In the editorial team of the Encyclopaedia Judaica , he headed the folklore department. From 1985 to 1992 he was Professor of Yiddish Folklore at Bar Ilan University , 1992–1993 Professor of Popular Literature at Ben Gurion University in the Negev and 1995–1996 Professor of Folklore at Haifa University .
Noy wrote about 60 books on folk tales, both of Jewish and non-Jewish origins, as well as legends and stories from the Talmud and the Midrash .
On his 60th birthday, a commemorative publication by Jissachar Ben-Ami and Joseph Dan was published by the Magnus Verlag of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He was awarded the Bialik Prize in 2002 and the Israel Prize in 2004.
His second marriage was to the archaeologist Tamar Noy (* 1926), until her death in 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ Chaim Noy: Dov Noy
- ^ Obituary by Dan Ben-Amos ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noy, Dov |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neuman, Dov |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli folklorist and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolomyja , then Poland , now Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 2013 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |