Shulamith Hareven

Isabelle Hesse (University of Sydney)

Ed. by Anna Bernard, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.1: Israeli and Palestinian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Anna Bernard (King's College London), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 14 Feb 1930
Died 25 Nov 2003
Activity 1949-2003

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Israel

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Children's/Young Adult writer
Poet
Translator

Resources

Hareven's Works

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Shulamith Hareven was named one of “Israel’s 11 most outstanding women” by the World Jewish Women’s Organization in 1988 and described as “one of a hundred women of our times who make the world move” by the French journal

L’Express

in 1995. As these titles attest, she is renowned in Israel and beyond for her work both as a writer and as a political activist. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Academy of the Hebrew Language in 1979 and her works have been translated into 21 languages. She was author in residence at Ohio State University in 1974, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1989-1990, and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies in 1994.

Shulamith Hareven was born Shulamith Riftin in 1930 in Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine

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Citation: Hesse, Isabelle. "Shulamith Hareven". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 July 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13261, accessed 23 November 2024.]