Dan Miron

Dan Miron (Hebrew: דן מירון‎, born 1934) is an Israeli literary critic and author. Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.^[1]

Awards and critical acclaim

• In 1980, Miron was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.^[2]
• In 1993, he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew literature.^[3]

The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism." ^[4]

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^[5]

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Bialik Prize recipients

References

Further reading

Amos Goren, Kingdom of Jews, an article about Ven Yash iz gekumen [“When Yash Arrived”], Jacob Glatstein, from Yiddish: Dan Miron, Am Oved Sifriya La'am,"Eretz Acheret" Magazine