Bialik Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 30 (1962) Winner
Baruch Kurzweil
バルーフ・クルツヴァイル
Baruch Kurzweil
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1907-00-00 （Brtnice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary）
- Died
- 1972-00-00 （Ramat Gan, Israel） age 65
- Nationality
- Israeli
- Languages
- Hebrew, German
- Religion
- Orthodox Judaism
- Residence History
- Brtnice (birthplace) → Frankfurt (studies, yeshiva) → Mandatory Palestine (emigrated 1939) → Haifa (taught at high school) → Ramat Gan (died)
Career
- Occupations
- Literary critic, University professor, High school teacher
- Active Years
- 1930-1972
- Affiliations
- Bar-Ilan University, Department of Hebrew Literature (founder & head), Haaretz newspaper (columnist)
- Influenced By
- S.Y. Agnon, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Orthodox Jewish thought
- Influenced
- Dahlia Ravikovitch (mentee, poet), Amos Tversky (mentee, psychologist), Israeli literary criticism
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon Breuer's yeshiva | — | — | — | 在籍期間不明 | Germany (Frankfurt) |
| University of Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt) | — | — | — | 在学期間不明 | Germany |
Solomon Breuer's yeshiva
Period:
在籍期間不明
Country:
Germany (Frankfurt)
Received Orthodox Jewish education; later studied at university
University of Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Period:
在学期間不明
Country:
Germany
Studied modern thought and literature at university
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Bialik Prize (literature) | — | 文学 | Tel Aviv Municipality (Bialik Prize) | 受賞 |
Bialik Prize (literature)
1962
Category:
文学
Organization:
Tel Aviv Municipality (Bialik Prize)
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Criticism from an Orthodox religious perspectiveConfrontational, polemical styleCriticism with philosophical and ideological analysis
- Recurring Motifs
- Modernity and religious discontinuityWriters' responses to the 'void'Individualism and loss of communal foundations
Legacy
Baruch Kurzweil was a pioneer of Israeli literary criticism, notable for his religiously informed analyses of Hebrew literature. Founder of Bar-Ilan University's Department of Hebrew Literature, he was a polemical figure whose ideas significantly influenced Israeli literary studies and criticism.
Archives
- National Library of Israel (holds related materials)
Quotes
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The secularism of modern Hebrew literature is a given in that it is for the most part the outgrowth of a spiritual world divested of the primordial certainty in a sacral foundation.
Source: Writings and critical essays (representative statement)
Trivia
- Emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1939.
- Received the Bialik Prize in 1962.
- Died by suicide in 1972.
- Mentored Dahlia Ravikovitch and Amos Tversky.