Iris Parush Explained

Iris Parush (Hebrew: '''איריס פרוש''') is an Israeli scholar of Hebrew literature.^{[1] [2]} Parush's work includes the study of the cultural and ideological development of Haskalah literature as well as the impact of nationalist ideologies on modern Hebrew literature.

Background

Iris Parush is a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University.^[3]

Publications

Books

• Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Brandeis University Press, 2004)
• Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Selected articles

• Parush, I. (1997). Women readers as agents of social change among Eastern European Jews in the late nineteenth century. Gender & History, 9(1), 60-82.
• Parush, I., & Brener, A. (1995). The Politics of Literacy: Women and Foreign Languages in Jewish Society of 19th-Century Eastern Europe. Modern Judaism, 183-206.
• Parush, I., & Sternberg, S. (2004). Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew": Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Book History, 7(1), 171-214.

Awards

• Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History

See also

• Menachem Brinker, Parush's doctoral advisor

Notes and References

1. Adler, Eliyana R. "Iris Parush. Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2004. Xix, 340 Pp." AJS Review 29.2 (2005): 402-04. Print.
2. https://networks.h-net.org/node/19384/reviews/19857/rozenblit-parush-reading-jewish-women-marginality-and-modernization Rozenblit on Parush, 'Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society'
3. https://www.brandeis.edu/tauber/publications/books/parush-reading.html Reading Jewish Women