Gershon Shaked
Gershon Shaked ( Hebrew גרשון שקדborn July 8, 1929 in Vienna as Gerhard Mandel ; died December 28, 2006 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli literary scholar, literary critic, writer and publicist.
Life
The von Shaked family came from Belz in Galicia, Austria . After the beginning of the First World War, the family fled to Vienna . His father was arrested in 1939 and taken first to Dachau and later to Buchenwald ; released a short time later. Gershon Shaked migrated with a children's certificate in 1939 after the annexation of Austria to the Nazi Germany in the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine ; his parents followed shortly afterwards as illegal immigrants .
Gershon Shaked studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the early 1950s and received his doctorate there. He then studied German, English and Romance languages at the University of Zurich . In 1959 he received a call to the Chair of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He taught as emeritus at Ben Gurion University in the Negev .
With his work "History of Modern Hebrew Literature - Prose from 1880 to 1980", published in 1996, Gershon Shaked also became internationally known. He wrote over 30 books.
Gershon Shaked was particularly committed to promoting understanding between Europeans and Israelis, as well as promoting modern Israeli literature. He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Shaked died after heart surgery in Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital in Tel Aviv. He was married to Dr. Malka Shaked and had two daughters.
Awards and honors
- Bialik Prize (1987)
- Israel Prize for Literary Studies (1993)
- Bahat Award for Non-Fiction (2004)
Quotes
- “ For all its erudition, this book leaves research behind and becomes history in itself. " Amos Oz on the" History of Modern Hebrew Literature ".
- “ Shaked was a crossover between European tradition and Hebrew modernity. “ Thomas Sparr , Suhrkamp Verlag, December 29, 2006.
Fonts (selection)
- The power of identities. Essays on Jewish writers , Suhrkamp 1986
- The Shadows Within (1987)
- SY Agnon (1989)
- History of Modern Hebrew Literature. Prose from 1880 to 1980. Arranged and from the Hebr. trans. by Anne Birkenhauer . Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-633-54112-6
- Immigranten , Suhrkamp 2007 ( published posthumously in German )
literature
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 248f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gershon Shaked in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical article
- Gershon Shaked at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)
- Haaretz: "Literary critic Gershon Shaked dead at 77" (en.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shaked, Gershon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mandel, Gerhard; Shaked, Gershom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli literary scholar, literary critic, writer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2006 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |