NILI RACHEL SCHARF GOLD

322 West 72nd Street Department of Near Eastern

Apartment 14B Languages and Civilizations

New York, NY 10023 University of Pennsylvania

Tel: (212) 724-1148 847 Williams, 255 South 36th Street

Fax: (212) 983-6010 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

niligold@sas.upenn.edu Tel: (215) 898-7467

EDUCATION

1979-1989 Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA) PhD with distinction

Jewish Literature, Dissertation: “The Transformation of Images & Structures in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” degree awarded 1990

1975-1976 JTSA M.A.

Jewish Literature, Thesis: “Poetic Closure in Modern Poetry: Natan Zach”

1969-1971 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, High School Teachers Diploma

in Hebrew Literature & Language

1966-1970 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A.,

Double Major: Hebrew Literature; Education (research division)

Additional Education

1993-1994 College of Physicians & Surgeons of Department of Psychiatry

Columbia University

The Writings of Sigmund Freud (year-long seminar)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

July 2002- University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department (AMES), now Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)

2000-2002 (June) University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer of Modern Hebrew Literature

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department (AMES)

2001-02 (Dec/Jan) Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Visiting Professor Department of Hebrew Literature, Graduate Program

1998-1999 Jewish Theological Seminary, Associate Professor and Chair, Hebrew Language Department; Director: Hebrew Language Programs

1995-1998 Columbia University, Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature & Language, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC)

1989-1994 Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature & Language, MEALAC

1978-1988 Columbia University, Instructor of Hebrew Language, MEALAC

1987-1988 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Lecturer of Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Hebrew Literature

1981-1982 New York University, Visiting lecturer of Hebrew Language

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

LANGUAGES

Hebrew, French, German and Yiddish

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Forthcoming Yehuda Amichai: the Making of Israel’s National Poet, Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England 522 page manuscript. Scheduled for publication in September 2008

1994 Lo Kabrosh: Gilgule Imagim Ve-tavniyot Be-shirat Yehuda Amichai (Not like a cypress: transformations of images and structures in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai), Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Schocken Publishing, 224 pages [in Hebrew]. Winner of the 1994 Ministry of Science and Culture Award (State of Israel), Best First Book in Hebrew Literature

Works in Progress

Betraying Mother Tongue, a book-length study of Israeli authors and poets whose mother tongue was German: A. Applefeld, Y. Hoffmann, D. Pagis, T. Ruebner, N. Zach. Third of the manuscript completed

In the Eyes of the Beholder, a book of essays on the literary image of Haifa as conceived by Jewish and Arab writers (1948-2008)

Articles (asterisk indicates refereed article):

Forthcoming* “German Reverberations in the Works of Yoel Hoffmann, Natan Zach, Dan Pagis, Aharon Applefeld and Yehuda Amichai,” in Alpayim, 23 pages [in Hebrew; revised version of “Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity,” in Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, Emily Miller Budick, ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001*), 235-258]

Forthcoming* “To Walk on the ‘Inner Streets’: Yoel Hoffmann’s Ephraim” in Criticism & Interpretation: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture (Bar-Ilan University) 15 pages [in Hebrew].

2006* “The Topography of the City and the Body: Yehudit Katzir’s Haifa” in Hebrew Studies, Vol. XLVII, 281-294.

2005* “And the Migration of My Parents Has Not Subsided in Me: Yehuda Amichai” in Middle Eastern Literatures: Incorporating EdebiYat Vol. 8 #2 July, 171-185.

2004* “Yehuda Amichai – Haifa, Letters” in Keshet ha-hadasha (Quarterly for Literature, Theory, Criticism) Vol. 2, spring issue 7-13 [in Hebrew].

2003* “Notes on Love and War in the Life of Yehuda Amichai” in Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 19, #1 fall issue 57-71.

2002* “ ‘A Ship that Carries Longing’: Travel as Semiotic Sign in Amichai’s Poetry ,” in Mikan, (Ben Gurion University) Vol. 3, winter issue, 86-100 [in Hebrew].

2002* “Reading the Poet Zvia Ben-Yosef Ginor,” in Hebrew Higher Education, (NAPH, University of Wisconsin), Vol. 10, 73-79 [in Hebrew].

2001 “In Memory of Yehuda Amichai” in Hadoar Vol. 80, No. 5, 21-23 [in Hebrew].

2000 “He is After All a Good Boy and Full of Love” in Hadoar Vol. 79, No. 22, 21-22 [in Hebrew].

1999 “A Thousand Years since the Ban of Rabbi Gershom,” in Hadoar,

Vol. 78, No. 21, 23-24 [in Hebrew].

1997* “Re-reading It is the Light, Lea Goldberg’s Only Novel,” in Prooftexts, Vol. 17, 245-264.

1995* “Poetry as Mother Language,” in Efes Shtaim, Issue 3 Spring, 58-68 [in Hebrew].

1995 “The Book as a River: Zen Buddhism and Western Rationalism in Yoel Hoffman’s Bernhard,” in Alei Siah, fall, 67-72 [in Hebrew].

1994* “Bernhard's Journey: The Challenges of Yoel Hoffmann's Writing,” Jewish Studies Quarterly, (Berlin: Freie Universität), No. 1, 271-287.

1994* “A Burning Bush or a Fire of Thorns: Toward a Revisionary Reading of Amichai's Poetry,” in Prooftexts, Vol. 14, 49-69.

1992* “Flowers, Fragrances and Memories: The Different Functions of Plant-Images in Amichai's Later Poetry,” Hebrew Studies, Vol. XXXIII, 71-92.

1991* “And the Vows are Not Vows: On Amichai's Later Poetry,” Siman Kri'a, (Tel Aviv University), No. 22, 361-378 [in Hebrew].

1984* “Images in Transformation in the Recent Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” Prooftexts, Vol. 4, 142-152.

Chapters in Edited Volumes (asterisk indicates refereed article):

Forthcoming* “Amichai’s Adolescence” in a biography of Yehuda Amichai, ed. Renate Eichmeier (Germany), 19 pages [in German].

Forthcoming* “The Map of Haifa in the work of Yehudit Katzir,” in Contemporary Israeli Literature, eds. G. Moscati and Y. Schwartz (Naples: Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli and Beer Sheva: Heksherim at Ben Gurion University), 14 pages [in Italian; revised version of “The Topography of the City and the Body: Yehudit Katzir’s Haifa” in Hebrew Studies, Vol. XLVII, 2006*, 281-294.]

2008* “On ‘Hovering at a Low Altitude’” in 'Biglal meshekh ha-chayim': ma'amarim al yetziratah shel Dahlia Ravikovitch mi-shenoth ha-chamishim ve-ad hayom, (‘Because of a lifetime’: articles on the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch from the 1950s onward) eds. H. Tsamir and T. S. Hess; 'Massa kritit', (Beer Sheva: Heksherim at Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv: Zmorah Bittan Modan), 11 pages [in Hebrew; a translated version of “On ‘Hovering at a Low Altitude’ by Dahlia Ravikovitch” in Reading Hebrew Literature, Alan Mintz ed. 2003] In press.

2007* “The Child, the Messiah and the Yearnings: Binyamin Shvili ‘A Child Flying a Kite in the 17th Century’ ” in Festschrift in Honor of Dan Miron, Hannan Hever, ed. (Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik), 735-746 [in Hebrew; a version of the first part of “Mysticism and Messiahs in the Poetry of Binyamin Shvili,” in Religion and Religiosity in Modern Jewish and Islamic Literatures, eds. G. Abramson and H. Kilpatrick (Oxford: Rutledge, 2005*), 71-89.]

2005* “Mysticism and Messiahs in the Poetry of Binyamin Shvili,” in Religion and Religiosity in Modern Jewish and Islamic Literatures, eds. G. Abramson and H. Kilpatrick (Oxford: Rutledge), 71-89.

2003 “On ‘Hovering at a Low Altitude’ by Dahlia Ravikovitch,” in

Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussions of Six Modern Texts, Alan Mintz, ed. (Hanover & London: University Press of New England), 221-231.

2002* “Amichai’s Now and in Other Days and Open Closed Open: A Poetic Dialogue,” in Festschrift in Honor of Arnold Band, eds. William Cutter and David C. Jacobson, (Providence: Brown University Judaic Studies), 465-477.

2001* “On With Her on Her Way Home by Amalia Kahana-Carmon,” in Sifrut Ve-Hevra Ba-Tarbut Ha-`Ivrit Ba-Me’ah Ha-`Esrim (Literature and Society in Modern Hebrew Culture), eds. Y. Bar-El, Y. Schvartz and T. Hess (Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Keter Pub.), 287-301 [in Hebrew].

2001* “Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity,” in Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, Emily Miller Budick, ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press), 235-258.

1999 “The Repressed German Sounds in Hebrew Literature: The Creative Betrayal of Mother Tongue as Part of Constructing a National Identity,” in Jüdischer Almanach 2000, Anne Birkenhauer, trans. (Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag), 24-38 [in German, a version of the section on Pagis in“Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity,” inIdeology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, E.M. Budick, ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001*) 235-258]

1997* “Applefeld’s Novel The Skin and the Gown as a Text of Enigma,” in Ben Kefor Le-`Ashan: Mehkarim Bi-tzirato shel Aharon Applefeld (Between Frost and Smoke: Studies in the Work of Aharon Applefeld), eds. Y. Ben Mordechai and I. Parush, (Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press), 195-203 [in Hebrew].

1997* “The ‘Feminine’ in Yehuda Amichai's Poetics,” in The Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai, Glenda Abramson, ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), 77-92.

1995 “Afterword” for Yoel Hoffmann's The Christ of Fish in Critical Mass (special issue of Conjunctions on world literature), (Annandale on Hudson, NY: Bard College) ed. Bradford Morrow, vol. 24, 57

1994 “Afterword,” in Yehuda Amichai: Mivhar Shirim (Yehuda Amichai: Selected Poems) (Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing), 97-114 [in Hebrew].

1993 “Staying in the Place of Danger: The Disobedient, Poetic ‘I’ of Dahlia Ravikovitch,” in To Speak or To Be Silent: The Paradox of Disobedience in the Lives of Women, Lena Ross, ed. (Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications) 97-108.

1993 “Introduction to Israeli Feature Issue,” in Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation, (New York: Columbia University), eds. F. MacShane and L.M. Carlson, vol. XXVIII 3-5

Encyclopedia Articles

1996 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, eds. R. Bulliet and R. Simon, (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan and The Middle East Institute of Columbia University), articles “Amichai, Yehuda,” Vol.1,137; “Applefeld, Aharon,” Vol.1,165; “Bialik, Hayyim Nahman,” Vol.1,370-371; “Hareven, Shulamit,” Vol.2, 774; “Hoffman, Yoel,” Vol.2,812-813; “Literature, Hebrew,” Vol.3,1116-1119; “Ravikovitch, Dahlia,” Vol.3,1522-1523 “Wallach, Yona,” Vol. 4,1874-1875.

1993 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, (Princeton:N.J Princeton University Press), eds. A. Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, “Hebrew Love Poetry,” 711-712 [see p. xiii]

Reviews and Translations (asterisk indicates refereed publications):

2006* “I Shall Never Forget the Tearing Eyes of my First Reader,” essay by Yehudit Katzir, in Hebrew Studies, Vol. XLVII, 295-297 (translation)

2004* “No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israel Women’s Fiction” by Yael Feldman” in The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 94, No. 2, 428-434 (review)

1997* “Quest for the Soul: On Ha-Shiva me-Hodu by A.B. Yehoshua,” on Open Heart by A.B. Yehoshua in Edebiyat, Vol.7, 393-398 (review)

1996 “Broken Wings: Dancing on the Water, A Novel by Lily Perry,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, No.17, 36-37 (review)

1996 “Soul Poems: Natan Zach’s Because I am Around,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, No. 18, 42-44 (review)

1994 “A Review of a Conference at Oxford University on Amichai,” in Hadoar, Vol. 74, No. 1, 18-20 [in Hebrew] (review)

1993 “To Reach the Source: Amalia Kahana-Carmon,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, No. 10, 43-46 (review)

1993 “Lying on the Water,” poem by Dahlia Ravikovitch, in Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation, Vol. XXVIII (New York: Columbia University), eds. F. MacShane and L.M. Carlson, 167-168 (translation)

1992 “A Tale of an Uprooted Philodendron: On Who gets Belgium by Yitzhak Kronzon,” in Hadoar, Vol. 71, No. 19, 18-19 [in Hebrew] (review)

PAPERS PRESENTED:

Professional Annual and International Conferences

2008 “Amichai’s Struggle with the German Language and Landscape,” Lecture at an International Scholars Conference on “The Return to Germany in Literature” in Heidelberg, Germany, November (upcoming).

2007 “Haifa in Sami Michael’s Trumpet in the Wadi,” Lecture at International Scholars Conference in honor of the Israeli author Sami Michael and his work, Stanford University, California, September

2006 “Dahlia Ravikovitch’s ‘Delight’,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), San Diego, December

2006 “Memoir or Literary Fiction?” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Israel Studies (AIS), The Banff Centre, Sponsored by the University of Calgary, May

2006 “The Map of Haifa in the work of Yehudit Katzir,” Lecture at International Scholars Conference on Contemporary Israeli Literature, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli (“L’Orientale”), April

2005 “Little Ruth: Interpreting Amichai in Light of his Biography,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April

2004 “Deconstruction of a Genre: Yoel Hoffmann’s Ephraim and James Joyce’s Ulysses,” Lecture at International Conference on Yoel Hoffmann, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, May

2002 “Würtzburg: A Portrait of an Artist as a Child,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Modern Language Association (MLA), New York City, December

2002 “Migration from Germany,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Los Angeles, December

2001 “‘Travel’ as a Poetic Sign in the Poetry of Amichai,” Keynote Lecture at Plenary session in memory of Yehuda Amichai at the Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (WCJS), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, August

2001 “Inter- and Intra-Textuality in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C., December

2000 “The Post-Modernist Collage in the Poetry of Benjamin Shvili,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, December

1999 “The Insistence of Mother Tongue in the Works of Hebrew Writers,” Lecture at Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Chicago, December

1997 “Language and Identity,” Lecture at International Conference on Literary Expression of Jewish Identity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June

1995