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Yair Mazor, Professor

Office: Curtin Hall, 818
Phone: 414-229-5984
e-mail: ymazor@uwm.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., Hebrew Literature and Theory of Literature; Tel Aviv University, 1983. Awarded "Sadan Prize" from Tel Aviv University.
M.A., Hebrew Literature (Summa Cum Laude); Tel Aviv University, 1978. Awarded "Shpan Prize" from Tel Aviv University.
B.A., Comparative Literature, Theory of Literature and Drama/Theater: Tel Aviv University, 1974.

Research and Teaching Interests:
Dr. Mazor has authored 14 scholarly books and over 200 articles and critical essays that have been published in professional and literary periodicals in USA, Israel, Denmark, Norway, England, Italy, France and Germany. Dr. Mazor has delivered over 70 papers in professional conferences both national and international. Dr. Mazor is a welcomed academic speaker in many American universities as well as Israeli and European Universities. Dr. Mazor has lectured recently in the universities of Venice, Paris (INALCO), Prague, Cambridge, Oxford, London, Stockholm International Institute for Jewish Studies, Aarhus University in Denmark and Bergen University in Norway, Toledo and Granada Universitites.

Dr. Mazor's books, articles and essays focus on modern Hebrew literature, contemporary Israeli poetry, Hebrew Enlightenment ("haskala") literature in Eastern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, Biblical literature, comparative literature, theory of literature, Scandinavian literature, modern Hebrew drama and Hebrew children's literature.

Awards:
Shpan Prize for the book: The Dynamics of Motifs in S.Y. Agnon's Fiction. Dekel Academic Press, Tel Aviv, 1979 (1979).
Dov Sadan Prize for the book: A Well Wrought Enlightenment: The Compositional Poetics of the Hebrew Enlightenment Narrative. Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 1986 (1986).
Baron Prize of Exceptional Accomplishments in Teaching and Research in the Field of Jewish Studies (1997).
National Prize: The Most Distinguished Scholar of Hebrew Literature in USA (Friedman Prize) (1998).
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Most Distinguished Teaching Award (1999).

Posts:
Professor of Hebrew and Biblical literature.
Founder and first Director of UWM Center for Jewish Studies and UWM Certificate Program in Jewish Studies.
Dr. Mazor continues leading the UWM Hebrew Studies Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics.

Books:
1979 The Dynamics of Motifs in S.Y. Agnon's Fiction. Dekel Academic Press, Tel Aviv. Awarded the "Shpan Prize"

1986 A Well-Wrought Enlightenment: The Compositional Poetics of the Hebrew Enlightenment Narrative. Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Awarded the "Dov Sadan" prize by Tel Aviv University.

1987 A Sense of Structure: Hebrew and Biblical Literature. University Publishing Projects, Tel Aviv.

1987b The Triple Cord: Agnon, Hamsun, Strindberg: Where Scandinavian and Hebrew Literatures Meet. Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

1987c Not By Poem Only: Art of Narrativeby David Fogel. University Publishing Projects, Tel Aviv.

1992 The Other Tchernichovsky: His Narrative's Landscape; Saul Tchernichovsky's Art of Narrative. Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

1996 From Wooded Meadows to Downtown Tel Aviv: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry. Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

1998 From Medieval Spain to the Land of Cinderella: Studies in Hebrew Poetry and Children's Poetry. Tag Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1996.

1998b Touch Me Tender, Nocturnal Lament: Amos Oz's Art of Narrative (with Amos Oz's participation). Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem.

2000 Pain, Pining and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (in art album format with Judaica illuminations and works of art by the Israeli renowned painter, Nachum Guttman). Papyrus Press of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

2002 Somber Lust; The Writings of Amos Oz: Poetic Portrait (with the participation of Amos Oz; a new version of no. 9). State University of New York Press, Albany.

2002 Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet (in art book format with works of art by Michael Kovner). University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

2005 Love in the Back Seat: Hebrew Poetry in the Sixties (in art album format with works of art by Michael Kovner). Zmora-Bitan Publishing House, Tel Aviv.

2005 Who Wrought the Bible? Decrypting the Bible's Aesthetic Secrets (in art album format). University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

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