Iris Parush (Hebrew: איריס פרוש) is an Israeli scholar of Hebrew literature.[1][2] Parush's work includes the study of the cultural and ideological development of Haskalah literature as well as the impact of nationalist ideologies on modern Hebrew literature.[3]
Background
editIris Parush is a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University.[3]
Publications
editBooks
edit- Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Brandeis University Press, 2004)
- Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Selected articles
edit- Parush, I. (1997). Women readers as agents of social change among Eastern European Jews in the late nineteenth century. Gender & History, 9(1), 60-82.
- Parush, I., & Brener, A. (1995). The Politics of Literacy: Women and Foreign Languages in Jewish Society of 19th-Century Eastern Europe. Modern Judaism, 183-206.
- Parush, I., & Sternberg, S. (2004). Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew": Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Book History, 7(1), 171-214.
Awards
edit- Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History
See also
edit- Menachem Brinker, Parush's doctoral advisor
References
edit- ^ Adler, Eliyana R. "Iris Parush. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2004. Xix, 340 Pp." AJS Review 29.2 (2005): 402-04. Print.
- ^ Rozenblit on Parush, 'Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society'
- ^ a b Reading Jewish Women. Brandeis University.
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