Prof. Nitza Ben-Dov
Department of Hebrew Comparative Literature

E-mail: bendov@research.haifa.ac.il

Work Phone : +972-4-824-0847
Home Phone : +972-4-824-7962
Mobile: +972-52-4704-774
Fax : +972-4-834-3896
 
 


Education

Ph.D., The University of California, Berkeley, 1984

M.A., The University of California, Berkeley, 1977

B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974

  Academic Positions

Professor, Dept. of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, 2000 – current.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa,
1989 – 2000.

Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1986 - 1989.

Lecturer, University of Michigan, 1979.

Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1979.


 

Academic Duties

Academic Editor, The Academic T.V. Broadcast, University of Haifa, 2001 – 2005.

Editor-in-Chief, Haifa University Press, 1993 - 2001.

 

Books

Agnon's Art of Indirection (English) 1993, Leiden & New-York: E.J. Brill.

In the Opposite Direction (ed., Hebrew) 1995, Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad.

Unhappy/Unapproved Loves (Hebrew) 1997, Tel-Aviv: Am Oved Publishers.

“Vehi Tehilatecha” – Studies in the works of S.Y.Agnon, A.B.Yehoshua and Amos Oz (Hebrew) 2005, Tel-Aviv: Schocken Publishing House.

Tales and Essays of Love and Darkness: A volume of selected works of Amos Oz, (ed., English) Harcourt, Inc., New York. 2007,

 


Publications

Over 75 articles (Hebrew & English);.

Sample Publications:

1. “Dreams and Human Destiny in Ad Hena,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 7 (1987), pp. 53-63.

2. “Biblical Allusion in Agnon's Dance of Death: A Study in Intertextual Dissonance,” Modern Judaism 23 (1987), pp. 271-286.

3. “Why They Write: The Political Impulse of Israeli Writers,” Middle East Review 20 (1987/88), pp. 15-25.

4. “Latent Content in Agnon's In the Prime of Her Life,” Hebrew Studies 29 (1988),
pp. 67-80.

5. “Key Words and Thematic Composition in the Elisha Cycle,” Edebiyât: A Journal of Middle Eastern and Comparative Literature 3 (1989), pp. 79-89.

6. “Discriminated Occasions and Discrete Conflicts in Agnon's A Simple Story,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 9 (1989), pp. 213-227.

7. “The Brown Notebook of Dreams: On Amos Oz's The Third Condition,” Modern Hebrew Literature 7 (1991), pp. 30-31.

8. “Amos Oz's Artistic Credo in To Know A Woman,” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 5-6 (1992-1993), pp. 42-46.

9. “Thousand and One Nights in the Light of Day: Sami Michael's Victoria,” Modern Hebrew Literature 11 (1993), pp. 37-39.

10. “The Raven's Message of Return: S.Y. Agnon and the Zionist Dream,” Studies in Zionism 14:1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 95-112.

11. “Biblical Woman: Caught Between Father and Husband,” Trumah 10 (December 2000), pp. 113-120.

12. “The Lady Judges, Death Threatens: The Ashtoreth Paradigm in the Works of Abraham B.Yehoshua,” (Hebrew) Bar-Ilan Law Studies 18 No. 1-2 (A volume dedicated to Law & Literature) (2002), pp. 417-434.

13. “Imitation within Imitation in ‘B’dmei Yameha,’” (Hebrew with an English abstract) Criticism & Interpretation 35-36 (A volume dedicated to Bialik and Agnon) (2002),
pp. 185-205.

14. “Sandals, Shoes and Sex: Absence, Eros and Passion in the Works of Amos Oz,” Israel: History, Society, culture 7 (2005), pp. 117-130.

15. “In the Backyard of Agnon’s House,” Hebrew Studies 47 (2006), 237-251.

16. “Nel cortile posteriore di casa Agnon: legami strettissimi tra La sposa liberata e la produzione letteraria di Agnon”, Leggere A.B. Yehoshua, edited by Prof. Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.s Torino, (2006), pp 209-219

והיא לא ידעה איש' על סיום סיפור בת יפתח, על סיום ספר שופטים, על סיום סיפור'"
"בת שאול ועל סיומים אחרים",
.עלי שיח 48 (דצמבר 2002), עמ' 7-16

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"ממון ומניינו - אנטומיה של הידרדרות: על 'הקבצן העיוור' של אליהו מידניק"
עלי שיח 49 (קיץ 2003), עמ' 85-92
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"'הצער לא מסתיים: סיפור על אהבה וחושך - לסיים באשה ובבנה יחידה'"
קשת החדשה: רבעון לספרות עיון וביקורת 6 (חורף 2004), עמ' 7-16
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"כבד בערך וקל במשקל': על בגדאד אתמול של ששון סומך'"
קשת חדשה 8 (קיץ 2004), עמ' 170-174
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בשר ושירה בשירה של עגנון", קשת החדשה 10 (חורף 2004), עמ' 7-14"
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תקופת הפוגה שקטה במצב הישראלי", קשת החדשה 12 (קיץ 2005), עמ' 109-115"
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קוראים לי הפריזאית': קשרים וקשרי קשרים בין הרומן תֶרָה של צרויה שלו לבין 'גרדיווה' של" וילהלם יֶנְסֶן", קשת החדשה 20 (קיץ 2007), עמ' 91-98.
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Prizes and Rewards

Israeli Prime Minister prize, 1995.

Haifa Municipality (Kariv prize for Literary Criticism), 1999