Centers - Authors

Professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, is a renown Israeli writer. Some of his more recent works include: The Pure Element of Time (2003); Feathers (2004).

Prof. Menachem Brinker ,The Hebrew University

is Professor (Emeritus) of Literature and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Henry B. Crown Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Chicago. He received the Israel Prize for Research of Hebrew Literature for 2004. Among his recent publications (in Hebrew) are: Representation and Meaning in Fiction (1980); Aesthetics as the Theory of Criticism (1982); Narrative Art and Social Thought in Y.H. Brenner’s Work (1990); About Literature (2000(.

Zvi Elhyani

Zvi Elhyani is an Israeli architect and historian of architecture, presently writing a doctoral dissertation on the historiography of Israeli architecture. Elhyani teaches at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and at the Haifa Technion. He is the co-editor of The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948-1973 (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004) and the author of the forthcoming Niemeyer in Israel (Babel 2008). Elhyani is a founding member of the Forum for Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory in Israel. He has published dozens of articles on architecture in Israel and abroad.

Ayana Erdal

Ayana Erdal is an Israeli poet. She was awarded the 2005 Israeli President´s prize for poetry. Erdal is the Author of My Blood Sandals (Keter Books 2002). Her second book is soon to be published by the Am-Oved Publishing House.

Prof. Boaz Huss ,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Boaz Huss teaches Kabbalah at the Goren-Goldstein Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is an expert on of various areas of Kabbalah, the Zohar and contemporary Kabbalah. His recent publications include: Like the radiance of the Sky: Chapters in the Reception History of the Zohar and the Construction of its Symbolic Value, Ben Zvi: Jerusalem, 2008; `"All you Need is LAV": Madonna and Postmodern Kabbalah`, The Jewish Quarterly Review 95, 2005; `The New Age of Kabbalah: Contemporary Kabbalah, The New Age and Postmodern Spirituality` Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 6, 2007. He is currently engaged in a research project ´Major Trends in 20th Kabbalah´, funded by the Israeli Science Foundation.

Ronit Matalon ,Haifa University

writer and author of essays and articles, is Senior Lecturer of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. She is the author of The One Facing Us (1998) and Bliss (2003(.

Dror Mishani ,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dror Mishani is a research student and lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His thesis deals with “(Post)Colonial Imagination in Israeli Literature in the 1980’s.

Yonit Naaman

Yonit Naaman has a B.A in Poetics and Comparative Literature from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A in Jewish-Christian Relations from the University of Cambridge. She is Mizrachit, a feminist and is interested in the aspects of post-colonical and gender issues in Literature.

Efrat Naveh ,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Efrat Naveh received a Master of Arts in the Literary Writing Track at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva. She is a writer who has published a number of poems and short stories in several periodicals. The story in BGU Review was originally published in Israel (in Hebrew) and won a competition for the best short story sponsored by the Ha’Aretz newspaper in April, 2003.

Dahlia Ravikovich

Dahlia Ravikovich (1936-2005) is one of the most eminent and central modern Israeli poets. She published ten books of poetry (among which: The Love of an Orange [Ahavat Tapuah Ha-Zahav] 1959; The Third Book [Ha-Sefer Ha-Shlishi] 1969; True Love [Ahavah Amitit] 1987); three collections of short stories and five children´s books. She has also translated poetry and books for children into Hebrew. Ravikovich´s unique poetics demand an erasing of the apparent distinction between the personal-internal and the public-political pain and injustice. She was awarded the Bialik Prize (1987), the Israel Prize (1998) and the Prime Minister´s Prize (2005). Her poetry has been published abroad in 23 languages.

Prof. Steven.A Rosen ,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Steven A. Rosen is Professor of Archaeology, Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near East, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of: Lithics After the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant (1997); The ‘Oded’ Sites: Investigations at Two Early Islamic Pastoral Encampments in the South Central Negev (1997).

Aharon Shabtai

Aharon Shabtai is an acclaimed Israeli poet as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew. Shabtai has published 20 books of poetry (Among which: Kibbutz 1973; Love [Ahavah] 1988; Ziva 1990). Ttranslations of his poetry have appeared in English and French. He was awarded the 1971 Prime Minister´s Prize for Poetry, the 1993 Prime Minister´s Prize for Translation and the 1999 Tchernikhovsky Prize for Translation. He teaches Greek literature at Tel-Aviv University.

Prof. Emmanuel Sivan ,The Hebrew University

Emmanuel Sivan is a Professor of European and Islamic History at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of: Radical Islam (1990); Mythes polotiques arabes (1995); War and Remembrance in the 20th Century (2000), Strong Religion (2003(.

Dr. Anat Zanger ,Tel Aviv University

Anat Zanger is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film & Television at Tel Aviv University. Among her subjects of interests: Gender, Mythology, Collective memory, war and women, inter-textuality Space and Landscape. Her book Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguises has been published recently by the Amsterdam University Press. She is currently completing a book on space and film.

Update Date: 25/09/2008