Gershon Shaked

Gershon Shaked (Hebrew גרשון שקד; born July 8, 1929 in Vienna as Gerhard Almond, † December 28, 2006 in Tel Aviv) was an Israeli literary critic, literary critic, writer and journalist.

Life

The family of Shaked came from Belz in Austrian Galicia. After the Russian pogrom in Lvov in 1914 and the beginning of the First World War the family fled to Vienna. His father was arrested in 1939 and initially transported to Dachau, then to Buchenwald; short time later released. Gershon Shaked migrated with a children's certificate in 1939 after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany to Palestine; his parents followed as illegal immigrants short time later.

Gershon Shaked studied in the early 1950s at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate there. At the University of Zurich, he then studied German, English and Romance languages ​​. He received in 1959 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem a call to the chair of Hebrew and Comparative Literature. He taught as a professor emeritus at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev.

With his 1996 published book " History of Modern Hebrew Literature - Prose 1880-1980 " Gershon Shaked was also known internationally. He wrote more than 30 books.

Gershon Shaked engaged especially for the understanding of Europeans and Israelis, as well as a promoter of modern Israeli literature. He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Shaked died after heart surgery in Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital in Tel Aviv. He was married to Dr. Malka Shaked and had two daughters.

Awards and honors

Quotes

  • "This book makes learning at all the research behind it and is itself the story. " Amos Oz on the " History of Modern Hebrew Literature"
  • " Shaked was a frontier between European tradition and Hebrew Modernity" - Thomas Sparr, Suhrkamp December 29, 2006

Writings

  • The power of identity. Essays on Jewish writers, Suhrkamp 1986
  • The Shadows Within ( 1987)
  • S. Y. Agnon (1989 )
  • History of modern Hebrew literature - Prose 1880-1980, Suhrkamp 1996
  • Immigrants, Suhrkamp 2007 ( posthumously in German )
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