Oppenheimer Yochai, Department of Hebrew Literature

Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):

Date and place of birth: 17 november 1958, Jerusalem
Address: 61 Tshernichovsky, 92587 Jerusalem, Tel.02-5635711
Marital status: Married+2

University Education:

1981-1983: B.A. in German Literature and Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1984: Study of German Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany 1985-1986: M.A. in Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1988 -: Working as assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature, Hebrew University
1993: Approval of the dissertation: The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun
1994 -: Teaching at the Department of Hebrew Literature, Tel-Aviv University

Major publications (books and major articles):

BOOKS

1. "Let me speak as I am - On the Poetry of Avot Yeshurun", Hakibutz Hameuchad Press (forthcoming)

ARTICLES

1. "Poetics of Power - about the Playwright Hanoch Levin" ("Siman Kriah" 20, 1990, p. 204-216)

2. "Interim-situations in the Poetry of Yair Hurvitz"("Siman Kriah" 21, 1990, p. 280-287)

3. "On Political Competence: Lyrics versus Politics in the Poetry of Dalyah Rabikovitch" ("Siman Kriah", 22, 1991, p. 415-432)

4. "The Concept of Dialogue in the Works of Bakhtin"("Bikoret Ufarshanut" 28, 1992, p. 93-108)

5. "The Critique of Myth in the Writings of Walter Benjamin" ("Davar" 14.2.1992 - based on a lecture held at the Van-Leer Institute in Jerusalem)

6. "On Political Poetry" ("Alei Siach" 33, 1993, p. 9-20)

7. "The Concept of Space in Beckett`s Plays" ("Alei Siach" 34, 1994, p. 129-138)

8. "Auden, Zach and Laor - The Great Merit of Saying 'No'" ("Alpaim" 10, 1994, p. 238-259)

9. "The Song of Songs and ancient Erotic Poetry" ("Mechkarei Yerushalaim Besifrut Ivrit" - Hebrew University Press, 15, 1995, p. 7-21)

10."Determinism as Poetics in Ibsen's Plays" ("Dapim le Mechkar besifrut"- Haifa University Press, 10, 1996, p. 227-239)

11. "Water Benjamin`s concept of Historiography" ("Bikoret Ufarshanut" - Bar Ilan University, 33, forthcoming)

Teaches in the following subject areas:

- Hebrew poetry in the 20th century
- Hebrew holocaust literature
- Literature and politics
- Women's poetry
- Israeli theatre

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:

- Satire in Israeli theatre
- The representation of the Arab in Hebrew literature
- The pastoral mode in Hebrew Poetry
- Hebrew women's poetry

Areas of current research interest:

- Literature and ideology in Israel since 1948.
- The representation of the holocaust in hebrew literature
- Women's poetry
- Israeli political theatre

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):

home telephone: 02/5635711