Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart ( born July 23, 1943 in Haifa, Palestine, † March 17, 2007, New York City, United States) was an Israeli linguist. She had a column in the Israeli daily newspaper Jedi'ot Aharonot and also wrote for the websites Counterpunch or Z -net, mostly on the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians. She was the wife of the Israeli writer Aharon Shabtai.

Work

Reinhart was a member of the Communist youth organization Banki and remained until the Communist Party in the 1970s faithful. She studied first philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she graduated in 1967 and later took an MA acquired. In 1976 she earned the title of Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with their work The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora. My PhD supervisor was Noam Chomsky.

Tanya Reinhart taught from 1977 to 2006 at the University of Tel Aviv linguistics and literary theory and also had a teaching position at the University of Utrecht. In 2006 she left Tel Aviv and decided her professional life at New York University.

Reinhart has also made a name as a political activist and advocated that Israel should vacate the occupied territories in the West Bank. She was a sharp opponent of the Oslo peace process, since thereby the occupation of Palestinian territories was only extended and strengthened in their eyes. She was often a participant in demonstrations against the Israeli separation barrier.

Works

  • Israel / Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, Seven Stories Press, New York 2002, ISBN 1-58322-538-2.
  • The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel / Palestine Since 2003, Verso, London 2006, ISBN 1-84467-076-7.
  • Tanya Reinhart, Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computations WITH PR 2006

In German translation

  • Deadly peace. In: Irit Neidhardt (Ed.): The conflict live? Reports and analysis of leftists from Israel and Palestine. Restlessness, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-010-2
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