Dan Miron

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:Wikidata image Dan Miron (Template:Langx; 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.

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, Nathan Alterman, Uri Zvi Greenberg and Sholem Aleichem.

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 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
• In 2020 he was chosen as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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

Bibliography

• Haim Hazaz : a Monograph (Template:Langx). Hapoalim Publishers, 1959
• Sholem Aleichem – an essay (Template:Langx). Masada Publishers, 1970 (An enlarged edition published in 1976)
• Sholem Aleichem: person, persona, presence (English). YIVO Institute, 1972
• A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art (English). Schocken Books, 1973
• Four Faces in Contemporary Hebrew Literature: Studies in The Works of Alterman, Ratosh, Yizhar and Shamir (Template:Langx), Schocken Publishers, 1975
• Between Truth and Vision – the Beginnings of the Hebrew and Yiddish novel in the Nineteenth Century (Template:Langx). Bialik Institute, 1979
• Open Notebook; Discussions of Current Israeli Fiction (Template:Langx), Hapoalim Publishers, 1979
• Lights' Adjuatment – 20th Century Hebrew Fiction (Template:Langx). Schocken Books, 1979
• Der Imazh fun Shtetl – the fictional world of the Jewish Shtetl in the works of Sh. Y Abramovitsh and Sholem Aleichem, I. L. Peretz (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1981
• Taking Leave of The Impoverished Self: Ch. N. Bialki's Early Poetry, 1891–1901 (Template:Langx). The Open University Press, 1986.
• Founding Fathers, Stepsisters: The Advent of Hebrew Women's Poetry & Other Essays (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987
• If There is No Jerusalem – Essays on Israeli literature and Society (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987
• Come, Night – Irrationalism in early 20th Century Hebrew Literature (Template:Langx). Dvir Publishing House, 1987
• When Loners Come Together – a Generational Portrait of Hebrew Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Template:Langx). Am Oved Publishing, 1987
• Ashkenaz: Modern Hebrew Literature and the Premodern German Jewish Experience (English) . Leo Beck Institute, 1989
• Founding Mothers, Stepsisters – How Hebrew Women's Poetry started (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1994 (An enlarged edition published in 2004)
• Involved: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society (Template:Langx). Zamora Publishing, 1994
• Facing the Silent Brother – The Poetry of the 1948 War (Template:Langx). Keter Publishing House, 1992
• News from the Arctic Zone – Studies in modern Hebrew Poetry (Template:Langx). Zamora Publishing, 1993
• The Imaginary Physician: Classical Hebrew and Yiddish literature (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1995
• An Estranged Classic –a Study of S.Y.Agnon's 'The Bridal Canopy' (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1996
• Posterity Hooked : U.N.Gnessin's Stories Interpreted (Template:Langx). Mosad Bialik, 1997
• "Man is Nothing But…" – the Weakness of Power, the Power of the Weak: a Study in the Poetry of Power (Template:Langx). Zamora Publishing, 1999
• Snow of the Dove's Wing – The poetry of Abraham Sutskever (Template:Langx). Keshev leshira Publishing, 1999
• The Image of the Shtetl and other Studies of Modern Jewish Imagination (English). Syracuse University Press, 2000
• H.N.Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in modern Hebrew Poetry (English). Syracuse University Press, 2000
• From the Worm – A Butterfly; Young Nathan Alterman, a monograph (Template:Langx). The Open University, 2001
• The Fragile Power – a Study if Yehudit Hendel's Fiction (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2002
• Akdamut – Introducing Uri Zvi Greenberg (Template:Langx). Mosad Bialik, 2002
• The Dark Side of Sholem Aleichem's Laughter (Template:Langx). Am Oved Publishing, 2004
• In the City of Slaughter – a belated Visit (Template:Langx). Resling Publishing, 2005 (Together with Hannan Hever and Michael Gluzman)
• Relax, then Touch – A new view of Jewish literary interrelationships (Template:Langx). Am Oved Publishing, 2005
• The Blind Library – Mixed Prose 1980–2005 (Template:Langx). 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 (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2007
• The Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Other Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature (English). Toby Press, New Milford, Conn. 2010
• From Continuity to Contiguity : Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (English). Stanford University Press, 2010
• Half Past Nine – on the Fiction of A.B. Yehoshua (Template:Langx). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2011
• The Focalizing Chrystal – on the Poetry and Prose Fiction of Vladimir Jabotinsky (Template:Langx). Mosad Bialik, 2011
• From Mouth to Ear – Sholem Aleichem's Art of the Monologue (Template:Langx). Afik Books, 2012
• More!: Cognitive Patterns in Early Israeli Poetry (Template:Langx). Afik Books, 2013
• Why Gnessin? New Studies of a Hebrew Master (Template:Langx). Mosad Bialik, 2014
• The Animal in the Synagogue – Aspects of Kafka's Jewishness (Template:Langx). Afik Books, 2016
• From Experience to Ritual – the Crisis of Hebrew Modernism in the 1930's: the Case of Tessler (Template:Langx). Mosad Bialik, 2016
• Burning Sparks – on the Poetry of Leah Ayalon (Template:Langx). Even Hoshen Private Press, 2017
• The Orphic Voice, Vols I-II, Israeli Women's Poetry (Template:Langx). Afik Books, 2017
• The Stars Vindicated : Nathan Alterman's "Stars Outside" Re-Viewed (Template:Langx). Am Oved Publishing, 2019 (Together with Ariel Hirschfeld)
• Approximations : Studies of Israeli Poetry (Template:Langx). Afik Books, 2021
• Between Two Mountains. Literary Pairs – Proximity, Distance & Creative Friction (Template:Langx). Bar-Ilan University Press, 2021

External links

• Amos Goren, "Kingdom of Jews" Template:In lang, in Eretz Acheret magazine, an article about Dan Miron's Hebrew translation of Jacob Glatstein's Ven Yash iz gekumen ("When Yash Arrived")