Dan Miron (; born 13 November 1934) is an Israeli-born American literary critic, author, and professor of Hebrew.

An expert on modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University.

Since the 1950s Professor Miron has published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on modern Hebrew and Yiddish writers, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Nathan Alterman, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and Sholem Aleichem.

In 2012, Miron co-founded the Afik Publishing House of Israeli Literature with Iftach Alony and Lily Perry.Coby Ben-Simhon (May 23, 2012). "Aloni's literature project". Haaretz.Neta Halperin (December 18, 2015). "Invested in literature". Israel Hayom.

Awards and critical acclaim

In 1980 Miron was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought. In 1993 he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew literature. In 1998 he was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters. Dan Miron wrote an essay for this book. The year for Miron's prize is not noted. In 2010 he won a National Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category for From Continuity to Contiguity In 2020 he was chosen as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism.""Music From Her Own Mind; Poetry ," By Isaac Meyers, Jewish Daily Forward, Wed. September 19, 2007

Bibliography Haim Hazaz : a Monograph (). Hapoalim Publishers, 1959 Sholem Aleichem – an essay (). Masada Publishers, 1970 (An enlarged edition published in 1976) Sholem Aleichem: person, persona, presence (English). YIVO Institute, 1972 A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art (English). Schocken Books, 1973 Four Faces in Contemporary Hebrew Literature: Studies in The Works of Alterman, Ratosh, Yizhar and Shamir (), Schocken Publishers, 1975 Between Truth and Vision – the Beginnings of the Hebrew and Yiddish novel in the Nineteenth Century (). Bialik Institute, 1979 Open Notebook; Discussions of Current Israeli Fiction (), Hapoalim Publishers, 1979 Lights' Adjuatment – 20th Century Hebrew Fiction (). Schocken Books, 1979 Der Imazh fun Shtetl – the fictional world of the Jewish Shtetl in the works of Sh. Y Abramovitsh and Sholem Aleichem, I. L. Peretz (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1981 Taking Leave of The Impoverished Self: Ch. N. Bialki's Early Poetry, 1891–1901 (). The Open University Press, 1986. Founding Fathers, Stepsisters: The Advent of Hebrew Women's Poetry & Other Essays (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987 If There is No Jerusalem – Essays on Israeli literature and Society (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1987 Come, Night – Irrationalism in early 20th Century Hebrew Literature (). Dvir Publishing House, 1987 When Loners Come Together – a Generational Portrait of Hebrew Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (). Am Oved Publishing, 1987 Ashkenaz: Modern Hebrew Literature and the Premodern German Jewish Experience (English) . Leo Beck Institute, 1989 Founding Mothers, Stepsisters – How Hebrew Women's Poetry started (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1994 (An enlarged edition published in 2004) Involved: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society (). Zamora Publishing, 1994 Facing the Silent Brother – The Poetry of the 1948 War (). Keter Publishing House, 1992 News from the Arctic Zone – Studies in modern Hebrew Poetry (). Zamora Publishing, 1993 The Imaginary Physician: Classical Hebrew and Yiddish literature (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1995 An Estranged Classic –a Study of S.Y.Agnon's 'The Bridal Canopy' (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1996 Posterity Hooked : U.N.Gnessin's Stories Interpreted (). Mosad Bialik, 1997 "Man is Nothing But…" – the Weakness of Power, the Power of the Weak: a Study in the Poetry of Power (). Zamora Publishing, 1999 Snow of the Dove's Wing – The poetry of Abraham Sutskever (). Keshev leshira Publishing, 1999 The Image of the Shtetl and other Studies of Modern Jewish Imagination (English). Syracuse University Press, 2000 H.N.Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in modern Hebrew Poetry (English). Syracuse University Press, 2000 From the Worm – A Butterfly; Young Nathan Alterman, a monograph (). The Open University, 2001 The Fragile Power – a Study if Yehudit Hendel's Fiction (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2002 Akdamut – Introducing Uri Zvi Greenberg (). Mosad Bialik, 2002 The Dark Side of Sholem Aleichem's Laughter (). Am Oved Publishing, 2004 In the City of Slaughter – a belated Visit (). Resling Publishing, 2005 (Together with Hannan Hever and Michael Gluzman) Relax, then Touch – A new view of Jewish literary interrelationships (). Am Oved Publishing, 2005 The Blind Library – Mixed Prose 1980–2005 (). Yediot Books; Sifre Ḥemed, 2005 The Shock of Independence: Reverberations in Early Israeli Poetry (English). Hunter College Press, 2006 On the Poverty of Literairiness – a Study of Sholem Aleichem (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2007 The Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Other Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature (English). Toby Press, New Milford, Conn. 2010 From Continuity to Contiguity : Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (English). Stanford University Press, 2010 Half Past Nine – on the Fiction of A.B. Yehoshua (). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2011 The Focalizing Chrystal – on the Poetry and Prose Fiction of Vladimir Jabotinsky (). Mosad Bialik, 2011 From Mouth to Ear – Sholem Aleichem's Art of the Monologue (). Afik Books, 2012 More!: Cognitive Patterns in Early Israeli Poetry (). Afik Books, 2013 Why Gnessin? New Studies of a Hebrew Master (). Mosad Bialik, 2014 The Animal in the Synagogue – Aspects of Kafka's Jewishness (). Afik Books, 2016 From Experience to Ritual – the Crisis of Hebrew Modernism in the 1930's: the Case of Tessler (). Mosad Bialik, 2016 Burning Sparks – on the Poetry of Leah Ayalon (). Even Hoshen Private Press, 2017 The Orphic Voice, Vols I-II, Israeli Women's Poetry (). Afik Books, 2017 The Stars Vindicated : Nathan Alterman's "Stars Outside" Re-Viewed (). Am Oved Publishing, 2019 (Together with Ariel Hirschfeld) Approximations : Studies of Israeli Poetry (). Afik Books, 2021 Between Two Mountains. Literary Pairs – Proximity, Distance & Creative Friction (). Bar-Ilan University Press, 2021

References

External links Amos Goren, "Kingdom of Jews" , in Eretz Acheret magazine, an article about Dan Miron's Hebrew translation of Jacob Glatstein's Ven Yash iz gekumen ("When Yash Arrived")