Dan Miron

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Israeli literary critic

Gender:

Male

Places:

Israel

Is:

Scholar Literary scholar Writer Critic Literary critic Translator Literary theorist Specialist in literature

Work field:

Academia Literature Social science

Birth:

1934(Tel Aviv, Israel)

Education:

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Buchmann-Mehta School of Music

Columbia University

Awards:

Israel Prize Bialik Prize Itzik Manger Prize

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Biography

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Dan Miron (Hebrew: דן מירון‎, born 1934) is an Israeli-born American literary critic and author.

An expert on modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University.

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

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 for Jewish thought.
In 1998, he was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters.
In 1993, he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew literature.
In 2010, He won a National Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category for From Continuity to Contiguity

The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism."

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