Languages

Expertise

Arts and Humanities (general) • History • Literature / Poetry • Music

Additional work areas: Art/Crafts/Painting • Philosophy

About me

In addition to my literary enthusiasms, I am an ardent amateur jazz saxophonist. 

Qualifications

Because of my strong academic background, I have a good understanding of many fields in the humanities.

Education

BA, summa cum laude in French, Princeton (1966)

PhD, Comparative Literature, Harvard (1973)

Three years of musicology courses at the Hebrew University (2003-2006)

Experience

I have translated the following books, along with scores of articles, short stories, etc.

 

Aharon Appelfeld, Beyond Despair. New York: Fromm International, 1994. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, For Every Sin. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, Katerina. New York: Random House, 1992. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, The Conversion. New York: Schocken, 1998 (from Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, The Healer. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, The Immortal Bartfuss. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks. New York: Schocken, 1998 (from Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, To the Land of the Cattails. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. (From Hebrew).

Aharon Appelfeld, Unto the Soul. New York: Random House, 1994. (From Hebrew).

Beinart, Haim, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001).

Dothan, Shmuel A Land in the Balance, The Struggle for Palestine, 1918-1948. Tel Aviv: MOD books, 1993.

Elior, Rachel, The Paradoxical Ascent to God, The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992. (From Hebrew).

Etkes, Imanuel, The Gaon of Vilna, the Man and his Image (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

Hirschfeld, Yizhar, Byzantine Monasteries of the Judaean Desert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. (From Hebrew).

Galpaz-Feller, Pnina, Samson: The Hero and the Man. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2006. (From Hebrew).

Gries, Zeev, The Book in the Jewish World, 1700-1900. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007).

Lazare, Lucien, Rescue as Resistance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. (From French).

Leroy, Beatrice, The Jews of Navarre in the Late Middle Ages (Hispania Judaica, no. 4). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1985. (From French).

Shaked, Gershon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, A Revolutionary Traditionalist. New York: New York University Press, 1989. (From Hebrew).

Schwartz, Yigal. Aharon Appelfeld, From Individual Lament to Tribal Eternity. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 2001. (from Hebrew).

Shapira, Avraham, Hope for Our Time: Key Trends in the Thought of Martin Buber. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999 (from Hebrew).