Dan Miron is an Israel

Israel

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i literary critic and author. Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University

Columbia University

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Awards and critical acclaim

• In 1980, Miron was awarded the Bialik Prize
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  The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction,...
  
   for Jewish thought
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• In 1993, he received the Israel Prize
  Israel Prize
  The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
  
   for Hebrew literature.

The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism."

Published works

• From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (2010)
• The Image of the Shtetl, Syracuse UP (2000)
• A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (1973)
• From the Worm a Butterfly Emerges

Further reading

Amos Goren, Kingdom of Jews, an article about Ven Yash iz gekumen [“When Yash Arrived”], Jacob Glatstein, from Yiddish: Dan Miron, Am Oved Sifriya La'am,"Eretz Acheret" Magazine