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Curriculum Vitae Gali Drucker Bar-Am | |
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גלי דרוקר בר-עם קורות חיים | |
| Personal |
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| Mailing address | P. O. B. 1000 Ramat Chen 52109 Ramat Gan, Israel |
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| gali.druckerbar@mail.huji.ac.il | ||
| Telephone | +972 3 5290374 | |
| Cell | +972 52 4040579 | |
| Web | http://www.galidruckerbaram.com | |
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| Education |
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| 2009-2013 | Ph. D. Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Yiddish Literature; Title: Am I Your Dust? Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose (Israel 1948-1968) Supervisor: Prof. Avraham Novershtern |
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| 2005-2008 | MA, Tel-Aviv University; Yiddish and Hebrew Literature Summa Cum Laude Title: 'From “Here” to “There”: Contrasts and Their Role in the Three Versions of Mendele Mokher Sforim’s "The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third (in Yiddish and in Hebrew)" Supervisor: Prof. Menakhem Perry |
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| 1995-1999 | BA, Tel-Aviv University, Comparative Literature and Philosophy | |
| Publications |
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| Refereed Journal Articles | ||
| 2014 | ‘The Holy Tongue and the Tongue of the martyrs": The Eichmann Trial
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| 2011 | ‘A Voyage between Voyages: A Study of the Three Versions of "The Travels of Benjamin the Third" by Mendele Mokher Sforim’ (Hebrew), Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 24 (2011), pp. 93- 124. |
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| 2010 | ‘In Basel St. I have founded the Israeli Bund’ (Hebrew), Davke 7 (2010), pp. 46- 49. |
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| Articles in Edited Collections |
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| ‘In Their Own Voice and in Their Mother-Tongue: Newborn Israel in Israeli Yiddish Prose’ (Hebrew), in: D. Ofer and Z. Mankowitz (eds.), Israel as Seen through the Eyes of the Holocaust Survivors, Jerusalem: Yad-Vashem (2013). |
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| ‘Revenge and Reconciliation: Early Israeli Literature and the Dilemma of Jewish Collaborators with the Nazis’, in: G. Finder and L. Jockusch (eds.), Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, Detroit: Wayne State University Press (2014). | ||
| Lexicon Entries | ‘Mendl Man’, ‘Avrom Karpinovitsh’, ‘Arie Shamri’, ‘Yishayohu Shpigl’ in the Heksherim Lexicon of Israeli Writers (forthcoming). |
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| Book Review | Review of Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland by Kalman Weiser for: Studies in Contemporary Jewry (forthcoming) |
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| In Preparation | ‘Gaystike erd by Avrom Sutzkever: The Author as Addressee, Mythology as Ideology’. |
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| ‘"Our shtetl, Tel Aviv, must, and will become, The Metropolis of Yiddish": Tel-Aviv — a center of Yiddish culture?’, Scholion 'Jews and Cities' publication. |
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| ‘Women Survivors as Narrators: Gender in Yiddish Novels Written by Women, Describing their Survival during the Holocaust’. |
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| Other Publications | ||
| 2012 | 'Yiddish Prose Written in Israel' (in Yiddish), Afn shvel 356- 357, pp. 16- 20. |
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| 2011 | 'Neither Dead, nor Resurrected: Yiddish Afternoon School in Tel-Aviv', Haaretz, April 24: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1225854.html |
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| 'Two Yosef Rotnbergs' (in Yiddish), Lebns-fragn 3-4: http://www.lebnsfragn.com/bin/articles.cgi?ID=1069 |
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| 'Like a pomegranate', (Hebrew translation from the Yiddish) poem by Rokhl Fishman, Haaretz, September 17: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1189632.html | ||
| Teaching Experience | ||
| 2014 | Home, immigration, and refuge in modern Yiddish literature (A Panoramic Historical Introduction to modern Yiddish Canon) The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and the Literature Department, Tel Aviv University. |
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| 2013 | Literature and the Challenge of Modernity: The Case of Yiddish (A Panoramic Historical Introduction to modern Yiddish Canon) The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and the Literature Department, Tel Aviv University. |
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| Jewish Cities and Their Cultural Images' (Course planner and coordinator) Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| Grants and Prizes |
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| 2014 | Post-doctoral fellowship: "Da'at Hamakom": Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World, I-Core (Israeli Centers of Research Exellence), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Host: Prof. Eli Lederhendler. |
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| Research grant: the Israeli Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East European Studies. |
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| 2013 | The Simon Wiesenthal Prize for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation. |
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| The Warburg Fund graduate students scholarship. |
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| Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi Scholarship for graduate students: the Institute of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2010-2012 | Doctoral fellowship: Scholion — Interdisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2012 | Doctoral scholarship: Memorial Foundation for Jewish culture, NY. |
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| The G.Y. Yashinsky Prize for distinguished graduate students. |
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| The Yad Vashem Prize for graduate students. |
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| Dissertation grant: 'Targum Shlishi'. |
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| 2011 | Doctoral scholarship: Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2010 | ‘Hanassi’ Grant: Honors Ph.D program in the humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2009 | The Genya and Itzik Manger Memorial Scholarship for Yiddish Research: Rabinowitch Foundation for the Arts, Tel-Aviv. |
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| The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies Scholarship for outstanding Students: the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| The Lerner Fund Scholarship for outstanding Yiddish Students. |
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| The Folklore Research center Prize for outstanding Seminar paper: the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2008 | Beth Sholem Aleichem Prize for outstanding MA thesis: Tel-Aviv |
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| 2007 | The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Grant for outstanding Yiddish Students: Tel-Aviv University.
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| ‘Bimat-Hahoker’ Institute of Jewish Studies Scholarship for outstanding Students: Tel-Aviv University. |
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| 2006 | Dov Sadan Prize for outstanding students in Yiddish-Hebrew Literature: Tel-Aviv Universit. |
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| 2005-2007 | Beth Sholem Aleichem Grant for Academic Achievements: Tel-Aviv. | |
| Personal Development | ||
| 2013 | Participant, Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on ‘Immigrants and their Shadows in Modern History’, University of Haifa. |
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| Participant, young scholars research seminary, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi institute, Jerusalem. |
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| 2010-2012 | Fellow, ‘Jews and Cities’ Research Group, Scholion — Interdisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2012 | articipant, Research Group on ‘Nature, Environment and National Identity in the Israeli and Palestinian Literatures’, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. |
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| 2011 | Initiator and coordinator of a Reading-group of Yiddish advanced students with Prof. David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary NY) of Avrom Sutzkever's Gaystike erd, Jerusalem. |
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| 2010 | Participant, ‘Israel as Seen through the eyes of the Holocaust Survivors’ Research Group. The Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem Jerusalem. |
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| Participant, ‘Limud Bechevruta’: Study group of Yiddish doctoral students at the Hebrew University. | ||
| Departmental / University Service | ||
| 2013 | Teaching assistant to David Roskies, the Naomi Prawer Kadar visiting Professor in Yiddish studies. |
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| 2011 | Conference organizer, ‘Bikurei Mehkar’, the Annual Conference of research students, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2010 | Committee member, ‘Bikurei Mehkar’, the Annual Conference of research students, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| Professional Memberships | ||
| World Union of Jewish Studies |
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| Association for Israel Studies | ||
| Other Activities | ||
| Founding and active member of the Yiddish culture cooperative “Mentsh”. | ||
| Languages | ||
| Hebrew, English, Yiddish, German (reading). | ||