Dan Miron (; born 1934) is an Israeli-born American literary critic and author. An expert on

modern Hebrew Modern Hebrew (, or ), also known as Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the Standard language, standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. It is the only surviving Canaanite language, as well as one of the List of languages by first w ...

and

Yiddish literature Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries in Eastern Eu ...

, Miron is a

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at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. Since the 1950s Professor Miron published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on different modern Hebrew and also Yiddish writers, including

Hayim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik (; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934) was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew language, Hebrew and Yiddish. Bialik is considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry, part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice ...

Nathan Alterman Nathan Alterman (; August 14, 1910 – March 28, 1970) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Labor Zionist politics, both before and after the es ...

Uri Zvi Greenberg Uri Zvi Greenberg (; September 22, 1896 – May 8, 1981; also spelled Uri Zvi Grinberg) was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Widely regarded among the greatest poets in the country's history, he was a ...

and

Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish language, Yiddish and , also spelled in Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization, Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian language, Russian and ), ...

. In 2012, Miron co-founded Afik Publishing House of Israeli Literature with Iftach Alony and Lily Perry.

Published works

*''From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking'' (2010) *''The Image of the Shtetl,'' Syracuse UP (2000) *''A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century'' (1973) *''From the Worm a Butterfly Emerges''

Awards and critical acclaim

* In 1980, Miron was awarded the

Bialik Prize The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel, for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Israel's national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate p ...

for

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. * In 1998, he was awarded the

Itzik Manger Prize The Itzik Manger Prize for outstanding contributions to Yiddish literature (, ) was established in 1968, shortly before Itzik Manger's death in 1969. Manger "was and remains one of the best-known twentieth-century Yiddish poets." The Prize has bee ...

for contributions to Yiddish letters. * In 1993, he received the

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for Hebrew literature. *In 2010, he won a

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in the Scholarship category for ''From Continuity to Contiguity'' * In 2020 he was chosen as a member of the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on res ...

. * ''

The Jewish Daily Forward ''The Forward'' (), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ''The New York Times'' reported that Set ...

'' called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism.""Music From Her Own Mind; Poetry ," By Isaac Meyers, Jewish Daily Forward, Wed. September 19, 200

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Bibliography

* ''

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: a Monograph'' (). Hapoalim Publishers, 1959 * ''

– an essay '' (). Masada Publishers, 1970 (An enlarged edition published in 1976) * ''

: person, persona, presence'' (English).

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Institute, 1972 * ''A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art'' (English).

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, 1973 * ''Four Faces in Contemporary Hebrew Literature: Studies in The Works of Alterman, Ratosh, Yizhar and Shamir'' (), Schocken Publishers, 1975 * ''Between Truth and Vision – the Beginnings of the Hebrew and Yiddish novel in the Nineteenth Century'' ().

Bialik Institute Bialik Institute () is a research institution and publishing house, mostly dealing with the history and culture of the Hebrew language. It was established in 1935 by the World Zionist Executive and the Executive of the Jewish Agency and named aft ...

, 1979 * ''Open Notebook; Discussions of Current Israeli Fiction'' (), Hapoalim Publishers, 1979 * '' Lights' Adjuatment – 20th Century

Fiction'' (). Schocken Books, 1979 * '' Der Imazh fun Shtetl – the fictional world of the Jewish Shtetl in the works of Sh. Y Abramovitsh and

, I. L. Peretz'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1981 *''Taking Leave of The Impoverished Self: Ch. N. Bialki's Early Poetry, 1891–1901'' (). The Open University Press, 1986. *''Founding Fathers, Stepsisters: The Advent of

Hebrew Women Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until a ...

's Poetry & Other Essays'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987 * ''If There is No

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– Essays on Israeli literature and Society'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987 * ''Come, Night – Irrationalism in early 20th Century

Literature'' (). Dvir Publishing House, 1987 * ''When Loners Come Together – a Generational Portrait of

Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century'' (). Am Oved Publishing, 1987 * '' Ashkenaz: Modern

Literature and the Premodern German Jewish Experience '' (English) . Leo Beck Institute, 1989 * ''Founding Mothers, Stepsisters – How

Women's Poetry started'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1994 (An enlarged edition published in 2004) * ''Involved: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society'' (). Zamora Publishing, 1994 * ''Facing the Silent Brother – The Poetry of the

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'' (). Keter Publishing House, 1992 * ''News from the Arctic Zone – Studies in modern

Poetry'' (). Zamora Publishing, 1993 * ''The Imaginary Physician: Classical

and

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literature'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1995 * ''An Estranged Classic –a Study of S.Y.Agnon's ' The Bridal Canopy' '' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1996 * ''Posterity Hooked : U.N.Gnessin's Stories Interpreted'' (). Mosad Bialik, 1997 * '' "Man is Nothing But…" – the Weakness of Power, the Power of the Weak: a Study in the Poetry of Power'' (). Zamora Publishing, 1999 * ''Snow of the Dove's Wing – The poetry of Abraham Sutskever'' (). Keshev leshira Publishing, 1999 * ''The Image of the Shtetl and other Studies of Modern Jewish Imagination'' (English).

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, 2000 * '' H.N.Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in modern

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'' (English). Syracuse University Press, 2000 * ''From the Worm – A Butterfly; Young Nathan Alterman, a monograph'' (). The Open University, 2001 * ''The Fragile Power – a Study if

Yehudit Hendel Yehudit Hendel (English: Judith Hendel; German: Jehudit Hendel; ) was an award-winning Israeli author. She wrote novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Much of her work focuses on the Holocaust, displaced persons, people with depression, and th ...

's Fiction'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2002 * ''Akdamut – Introducing

'' (). Mosad Bialik, 2002 * ''The Dark Side of

's Laughter'' (). Am Oved Publishing, 2004 * '' In the City of Slaughter – a belated Visit'' (). Resling Publishing, 2005 (Together with Hannan Hever and

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) * '' Relax, then Touch – A new view of Jewish literary interrelationships '' (). Am Oved Publishing, 2005 * '' The Blind Library – Mixed Prose 1980–2005'' (). Yediot Books; Sifre Ḥemed, 2005 * '' The Shock of Independence: Reverberations in Early Israeli Poetry '' (English). Hunter College Press, 2006 * '' On the Poverty of Literairiness – a Study of Sholem Aleichem '' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2007 * '' The Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Other Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature '' (English).

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, New Milford, Conn. 2010 * ''From Continuity to Contiguity : Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking'' (English).

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, 2010 * ''Half Past Nine – on the Fiction of

A.B. Yehoshua Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua (; December 9, 1936 – June 14, 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. ''The New York Times'' called him the "Israeli William Faulkner, Faulkner". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jew ...

'' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2011 * ''The Focalizing Chrystal – on the Poetry and Prose Fiction of

Vladimir Jabotinsky Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky; 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940) was a Russian-born author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in O ...

'' (). Mosad Bialik, 2011 * ''From Mouth to Ear –

's Art of the Monologue '' (). Afik Books, 2012 * ''More!: Cognitive Patterns in Early Israeli Poetry'' (). Afik Books, 2013 * ''Why

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? New Studies of a Hebrew Master'' (). Mosad Bialik, 2014 * ''The Animal in the Synagogue – Aspects of

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's Jewishness'' (). Afik Books, 2016 * ''From Experience to Ritual – the Crisis of Hebrew Modernism in the 1930's: the Case of Tessler'' (). Mosad Bialik, 2016 * '' Burning Sparks – on the Poetry of Leah Ayalon'' (). Even Hoshen Private Press, 2017 * ''The Orphic Voice, Vols I-II, Israeli Women's Poetry'' (). Afik Books, 2017 * ''The Stars Vindicated :

's "Stars Outside" Re-Viewed'' (). Am Oved Publishing, 2019 (Together with Ariel Hirschfeld) * ''Approximations : Studies of Israeli Poetry'' (). Afik Books, 2021 * ''Between Two Mountains. Literary Pairs – Proximity, Distance & Creative Friction'' (). Bar-Ilan University Press, 2021

References

External links

* Amos Goren,
Kingdom of Jews
, in '' Eretz Acheret'' magazine, an article about Dan Miron's Hebrew translation of Jacob Glatstein's ''Ven Yash iz gekumen'' ("When Yash Arrived") {{DEFAULTSORT:Miron, Dan 1934 births Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel Prize in literature recipients Living people Columbia University faculty Israeli literary critics Itzik Manger Prize recipients