University of Toronto

CV For: Sharon Green

Education:

B.A., 1979, Summa Cum Laude, and With Highest Honors, Brandeis University, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
M.A., 1983, Brandeis University, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Ph.D., 1996, Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

 

Employment:

2004- : University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature
2001-3: University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature
1988-2001: University of Toronto, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Lecturer in Yiddish Literature
1996-7: University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,
Ray D. Wolfe Fellow
1985-6: York University, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
1983-4: Brandeis University, University Program in Humanities, Instructor of Academic Writing

Research Specialization:

Modern Hebrew literature and culture; the work of S. Y. Agnon; religious themes in Modern Hebrew poetry; Yiddish literature and the culture of Eastern European Jewry

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Nominee in 2002 for Koret Jewish Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, and the Salo Baron Prize of the American Academy of Jewish Research, for Not a Simple Story: Love and Politics in a Modern Hebrew Novel.

Designated in 2002 as one of Core 1000 Essential Academic Titles, by Academia, the Online Resource for Academic Librarians. For Not a Simple Story: Love and Politics in a Modern Hebrew Novel.

Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jewish Studies Program, University of Toronto, 1996-97

American Association of University Women, International Doctoral Fellowship, 1984-85

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Doctoral Fellowship, 1983

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship, 1982-83

Tauber Fellow, Brandeis University, 1979-80

Senior Valedictory Speaker, Humanities Graduating Class Commencement, Brandeis University, May, 1979

B'nai Zion Fraternal Zionist Hebrew Award, Brandeis University, 1979

Saval-Sachar Summer Research Scholarship, Brandeis University, 1978

PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Azariah de' Rossi and the Politics of Biblical Humanism.” Shalem Center, Conference on Political Hebraism, Jerusalem, Israel, Aug. 23-26, 2004
  
  ”The Survival of Religion in Modern Hebrew Poetry.” Harvard University,
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Feb. 20, 2002.
  
  ”The Lost Culture of the Holocaust.” University of Toronto. Holocaust Remembrance and Education Week, Hart House, November 2, 1999.
  
  "Screening Israel: The Shaping of the Jewish State in Israeli Cinema." University of Toronto. Cinema Studies Program, Innis College, March 11, 1999.
  
  "Religious Memory in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai." American Academy of Religion, Southwest Regional Conference, Dallas, Texas. March 15, 1998
  
  "Love, Literature, and the Jews: S.Y. Agnon and the Search for the Romantic Novel." University of Toronto. The Annual Ray D. Wolfe Lecture, April 7, 1997.
  
  "Response to the Lecture by Professor David Roskies,'The Homecoming of Yiddish Literature.'" University of Toronto. Jewish Studies on the Threshold of the 21st Century: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Symposium Lectures, Jewish Studies Program, University of Toronto.
  March 26, 1995
  
  "A House in Ruins: Religious Themes in Postwar Yiddish Poetry." American Academy of Religion, Southwest Regional Conference, Dallas, Texas. March 10, 1995
  
  "Mendele Mocher Seforim and the Literary Context of The Light Ahead." Art Gallery of Ontario. Yiddish Film Festival--"Between Two Worlds," June 6, 1993
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Not a Simple Story: Love and Politics in a Modern Hebrew Novel. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books [hardcover] 2001; [soft cover]2002.
• "The Interrupted Song: The Shattering of Religious Harmony in Chaim Brandwein's 'A Broken Melody'." In Nigun she-nifram [The Broken Melody]: Essays in Memory of Chaim Brandwein, ed. Miriam Brandwein, with an introduction by Avner Treinin.Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press. (Forthcoming: 2005).
  
  "A Sixteenth Century Religious Radical: Azariah de' Rossi and the Origins of Modern Judaism." Submitted for publication.
  
  "Modern Hebrew Poetry." In Readers Guide to Judaism, ed. Michael Terry. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
  
  "The Bridal Canopy by S.Y. Agnon." In The Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger.
  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
  
  "The Novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer." In The Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger.
  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
  
  "The Golden Age of Yiddish Literature: From the Late Nineteenth Century until the Outbreak of World War II." In Yiddish Panorama: A Thousand Years of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Library, 1995.