Tanya Reinhart

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Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart (born July 23, 1943 in Haifa , Palestine , † March 17, 2007 , New York City , United States ) was an Israeli linguist . She had a column in the Israeli daily Jedi'ot Acharonot and also wrote for the websites CounterPunch or Z-net , mostly about the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians . She was the wife of the Israeli writer Aharon Shabtai .

Act

Reinhart was a member of the communist youth organization Bánki and remained loyal to the Communist Party until the 1970s. She studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where she graduated in 1967 and later also obtained an MA . In 1976 she earned a Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora . Her doctoral supervisor was Noam Chomsky .

Tanya Reinhart taught linguistics and literary theory at Tel Aviv University from 1977 to 2006 and also had a teaching position at Utrecht University . In 2006 she left Tel Aviv and started her professional life at New York University .

Reinhart has also made a name for herself as a political activist and advocated that Israel should evacuate the occupied territories in the West Bank . She was a sharp opponent of the Oslo peace process , since in her eyes it only extended and consolidated the occupation of the Palestinian territories. She was often a participant in demonstrations against the Israeli barriers .

Works

  • Israel / Palestine: How to End the War of 1948. Seven Stories Press, New York 2002, ISBN 1-58322-538-2
  • The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel / Palestine Since 2003. Verso, London 2006, ISBN 1-84467-076-7
  • Tanja Reinhart, Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computations MIT PR 2006

In German translation

  • Deadly peace. In: Irit Neidhardt (Ed.): Live with the conflict !? Reports and analyzes from leftists in Israel and Palestine. Unrast, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-010-2

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personal data
SURNAME Reinhart, Tanya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raynharṭ, Ṭanyā; Reinhart, Tania
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli linguist and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2007
Place of death New York City , USA