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Updated: January 2009
Personal
Education
| 2007 |
Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dissertation: “Studies in Figurative Language of Pre-Classical Piyyut”
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| 2002 |
M.A.(magna cum laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(Hebrew literature).
Thesis:“Elazar Birabi Qilir: Liturgical Poems for Hanukkah: A Critical Edition Based on Manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah”
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| 2000 |
B.A. (magna cum laude), Hebrew Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Research Fields
- Jewish and Christian Liturgical Poetry
- Ritual and Performance in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity
- Gender and Sexuality in Rabbinic Culture
Academic Positions
| 2008 - |
Visiting Faculty, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
| 2007-2008 |
Fellow, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2006-2007 |
Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University |
| 2003-2005 |
Junior Research Fellow, Scholion – Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2001-2005 |
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1999-2001 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Professional Memberships
- Association for Jewish Studies
- World Union of Jewish Studies
- Society of Biblical Literature
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
| 2007-2008 |
David and Penina Zoller Fellowship - Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2006-2007 |
Rothchild Postdoctoral Fellowship – Yad Hanadiv Foundation |
| 2005-2006 |
Mark Uveeler Special Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture |
| 2005 |
Travel Grant, Dorot Foundation |
| 2004 |
The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines, Authority for Research and Development, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2003-2006 |
Doctoral Research Fellowship, Scholion – Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2002-2003 |
Graduate Student Fellowship, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2001 |
I. Tishbi Outstanding Graduate Student Award, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2000 |
J. Burla Undergraduate Student Prize, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Publications
Book Chapters
- “Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Jewish Poems from Byzantine Palestine,” in R. Bonfil, G. G. Stroumsa (eds.), Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures, 2009, forthcoming.
- “Jacob of Serug’s Homily on Jephtah’s Daughter” (with Susan Harvey), in Sebastian Brock (ed.), Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, New Jersey, 2009, forthcoming.
- “Other Voices: Haman, Jesus and the Representations of the Other in Purim Poems from Byzantine Palestine,” in Yael Shapira, Omri Herzog and Tamar S. Hess (eds.), Popular and Canonical: Literary Dialogues (pp. 69-79, 211-217), Tel Aviv, 2007 (Hebrew).
Refereed Journal Articles
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"Reflections on Jewish and Christian Liturgical Poetry in Late Antiquity,
"Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry (2009), (forthcoming, Hebrew).
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"The Mar'eh Kohen Piyyutim and the Status of Simile in Late Ancient Piyyut", Ginzei Qedem -
Genizah Research Annual 5 (2009), (forthcoming, Hebrew).
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"All about Sarah: Questions of Gender in Yannai's Poems on Sarah's (and Abraham's)
Barrenness," Prooftexts – A Journal of Jewish Literary History 26:3 (2006), pp. 344-374.
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"Structural Ornamentations and Figurative Language in the Ancient Piyyut," Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 21 (2006), pp.19–38 (Hebrew).
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"From Seder HaMaaracha To Seder HaMaamadot – The Emergence and Transformations Of a
Liturgical Rite in the Middle Ages," Tarbitz – A Quarterly for Jewish Studies 73 (2004), pp.
293-310, (Hebrew).
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"The Creation, The Mishakn and Moshe Hadarshan," Tarbitz – A Quarterly for Jewish Studies
71 (2002), pp. 265-268, (Hebrew).
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"Amir Gilboa’s Poetry and the Ancient Piyyut," Proceedings of the 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies (2002) pp. 1-12, (Hebrew).
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"Towards the Solution of the Shabuoth Piyyutim Censorship," Tarbitz – A Quarterly for Jewish Studies 70 (2001), pp. 637-644, (Hebrew).
Refereed Conference Papers
| 2007 |
“Many Voices, One Choir: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity - A Comparative Approach,” AJS Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 16-18, 2007. |
| 2007 |
“When Poetry Does Not Follow Religious Affiliation: Christian and Jewish Poets on Body and Soul,” Syriac Symposium V, University of Toronto, June 25-27, 2007. |
| 2006 |
“Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Jewish poems from Byzantine Palestine,” The Medieval Hebrew Poetry Colloquium, Harvard University, August 27-29, 2006. |
| 2006 |
“Jewish and Syriac Hymnography in the Fourth Century,” Dorushe Conference on Syriac Pedagogy, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, February 3-5, 2006. |
| 2005 |
“Allegoria non Grata? On the Status of Allegory in the Hebrew liturgical Poetry of Late Antiquity,” National Association of Professors of Hebrew Annual Conference, Stanford University, June 19-22, 2005; Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 31 - August 4, 2005 (Hebrew). |
| 2004 |
“Imagined Journeys – Literature, History and the Production of Travel Narratives in Sixteenth-Century Yemenite ‘Book of Ethics’,” The Early Modern Travel Narrative, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 30 - May 1, 2004. |
| 2003 |
“Barrenness, Birth and the Poetics of Redemption According to Hebrew Poems from Late Antiquity,” Birth as Experience and as Metaphor, Jerusalem, November 11-13, 2003. |
| 2003 |
“The Wandering Jerusalem of the Montanist Movement,” Challenging the Boundaries – Annual Meeting of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, Istanbul, June 22-26, 2003 (English). |
| 2003 |
“Is Cultural Poetic of the Cairo Genizah Possible?,” What’s New? Innovations in the Current Study of Jews and Judaism, Jerusalem, April 30 - May 1, 2003 (Hebrew). |
| 2001 |
“Amir Gilboa’s Poetry and the Ancient Piyyut,” Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 22-26, 2001 (Hebrew). |
Invited Lectures
| 2008 |
“Isaac Redivivus: Toward a Cultic Understanding of Late Antique Poetry,” Gruss Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 30, 2008. |
| 2007 |
“The Binding(s) of Isaac: Poetic Creativity and Religious Discourse in Late Antiquity,” Religious Studies Colloquium, Brown University, November 27, 2007. |
| 2006 |
“From Ephrem to Yannai: The Rise of Jewish Hymnography,” Zur Entwicklung der Liturgie in Judentum und Christentum, Aachen, November 19-21, 2005. |
| 2005 |
“Structural Ornamentations and Figurative Language in the Ancient Piyyut,” Conference in Memory of Menachem Zulay, Ben Zvi Institiute, Jerusalem, February 5-6, 2006 (Hebrew). |
| 2004 |
“Sarah’s Barrenness in Light of Yannai’s Poetry,” Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, April 28, 2004. |
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