Creator Bio
Dan Miron
b. 1934
An author, editor, critic, and translator, Dan Miron is a leading scholar in the fields of Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Born and brought up in Tel Aviv, Miron is professor emeritus in literature at the Hebrew University and professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at Columbia University. Miron was awarded the Israel Prize in 1993. In 2010, he won a National Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category for his book From Continuity to Contiguity. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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If There Is No Jerusalem: Essays on Hebrew Writing in a Cultural-Political Context
During the century from the beginnings of the Yishuv Hadash [Modern Zionist Settlement] until the present, the competition between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has played a critical role. Although Tel Aviv…
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When Loners Come Together: A Portrait of Hebrew Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
As a subjective experience, the early and easy entry of the [Hebrew] authors of the early twentieth century into the literary arena had deep, formative, and constant influence. This entry marks a…