Reuven Kritz
Reuven Kritz Hebrew ראובן קריץ(born Rudolf Kritz on November 11, 1928 in Vienna ) is an Israeli literary scholar and writer.
Life
Rudolf Kritz's father Leo Kritz (born 1892) was a psychiatrist, his mother Valery Grund (born 1902) divorced him in 1936. In 1938, after the annexation of Austria and the November pogroms, Leo and Rudolf Kritz managed to escape to Palestine , where Rudolf finished school in Kibbutz Mizra and Kibbutz Mischmar HaEmek . In 1948 Reuven Kritz was a soldier in the Israeli War of Independence and later also in the Six Day War in 1967 and in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He trained as a high school teacher and was in school service from 1952 to 1967. He married the teacher Ila Reifer in 1952 and they have three children.
From 1961 he also studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate in 1971. From 1970 to 1972 he worked at the University of California, Los Angeles and Hebrew College Boston . From 1972 Kritz worked as a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1986, 1991 and 1995 he was visiting professor at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg .
Kritz published numerous literary studies. He wrote novels for adolescents and adults and an autobiography in 2001.
Kritz was a member of the anti-Zionist Koach Chadash party .
Works (selection)
- The Geniuses of Kiryat-Motzkin: Israeli Mini-Essays . Translation of Muni Poppendiek-Kritz. Illustrations Shlomo Rotem. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8334-8573-2
- My little red one: 12 stories . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011
- Morning air . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011
- Like crabs in the night . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2013
- Student in Jerusalem. Roni. Novel . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2013
- Little sister or Tami's fourteenth assignment: a novel . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2015
- Sky-blue days or the youth republic . Translation. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2017
- >> Title selection of Hebrew titles in English transcription at Worldcat
literature
- Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 138
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 667
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 754 (entry 5714).
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 188f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
- Literature by and about Reuven Kritz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Reuven Kritz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kritz, Reuven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kritz, Rudolf (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |