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Hebrew Program Events 2007 - 08For more information please call (650) 725 0577 Writer in Residence: AB Yehoshua, April 2008
He has received several literary prizes both in Israel and abroad, among which: the Brenner Prize, the Bialik Prize (1989), the Alterman Prize, England`s "Best Novel of the Year" Mr Mani (1992), the Koret Jewish Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Israel Prize for Literature (1995), the Giovanni Boccaccio Prize (Italy, 2005) and the Viareggio Prize for Lifetime Achievement (Italy, 2005). His work has been published abroad in 28 languages. (Source: http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=286) Public Lecture: April 24, 2008, Stanford University For more information go to:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/jewishstudies/events/index.html
Visiting Faculty: Professor Dan Miron
At Stanford professor Miron will teach two classes: (1) "The Modern Jewish Literary Complex": A comparative course focusing on the question whether a unified modern Jewish literature, or a "Modern Jewish Canon," exist, and, if not, what interactions among Jewish literatures, or fragments of Jewish literatures, have evolved throughout the last two centuries. About 12-15 texts by writers such as Reb Nakhman of Bratslav, Heine, Kafka, Bialik, Agnon, Amichai, Sholem Aleichem, I.L.Peretz, Bashevis-Singer, Y. Glatshteyn, Primo Levi, Jean Ameri, Charles Reznikoff, Henry Roth and Cynthia Ozick will be read and analyzed. All the texts are available in English. (2) "Sholem Aleichem and Jewish Minority Discourse." The courses will be offered through the Comparative Literature department. (Source: http://www2.jewishculture.org/awards/scholarship/awards_scholarship_miron.html)
International Conference: Sami Michael and Jewish Iraqi Conference (for the complete program click here)
Speakers Series (in collaboration with the Israel Center SF) For more information go to:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/jewishstudies/events/index.html
Performance (Stanford Lively Arts):
Idan Raichel Project
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A.B.Yehoshua was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of a Sephardi Jerusalemite family. After studying Hebrew literature and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he started a teaching career. From 1963 to 1967, he lived and taught in Paris; he is now Professor of literature at Haifa University. Yehoshua has published numerous novels, short stories, plays and essays and is one of the best internationally known Israeli authors.
Dr. Dan Miron is the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature at Columbia University and the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A prolific scholar, critic and editor, Dr. Miron has established himself over the past three decades as the leading authority on Hebrew literature. His influential books (more than twenty, in both Hebrew and English) study most of the prominent Hebrew and Yiddish authors, fiction writers and poets since the revival of Hebrew literature in the nineteenth century. As an editor-scholar, he is responsible for some of the most important 'collected writing' projects to be published in Hebrew in the previous century (Bialik's poems, Gnessin's stories, and many more). 
