Harold Fisch
Harold Fisch | |
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Born | |
Died | 8 November 2001 Jerusalem, Israel | (aged 78)
Spouse |
Frances Joyce Roston
(m. 1947) |
Children | Menachem Fisch David Harel Yossi Harel-Fisch |
Relatives | Murray Roston (brother-in-law) |
Awards | Israel Prize (2000) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield University of Oxford |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Leeds (1947–1957) Bar-Ilan University (1957–1989) |
Harold Fisch (25 March 1923, Birmingham – 8 November 2001, Jerusalem), also known as Aharon Harel-Fisch (Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן הַרְאֵל-פִישׁ), was a British-Israeli author, literary critic, translator, and diplomat.[1] He was a Professor of English and Comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University, of which he served as Rector from 1968 to 1971.[2] He was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.[3]
Biography
Harold (Aharon) Fisch was born in
Fisch began his undergraduate degree in
Academic career
In 1957, Fisch
Fisch was responsible for the English translation of the Tanakh for the Koren Jerusalem Bible (1964), based on Michael Friedländer's Jewish Family Bible,[14][15] which is still in publication and on its third edition.[16]
Zionist activism
Fisch participated in the establishment of the Neo-Zionist Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War.[17][18] His 1972 work A Zionist Revolution included a defense of Gush Emunim, based on the ideas of Menachem Kasher and Abraham Isaac Kook.[19][20] During the era of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Fisch was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 32nd General Assembly of the United Nations.[17] He declined an offer from the Prime Minister to occupy the position of Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands.[3]
Awards and recognition
Fisch was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000. He died on 8 November 2001 of a tumor discovered two weeks earlier.[21]
Published works
- The Dual Image: A Study of the Figure of the Jew in English Literature. London: Lincolns-Prager. 1959. OCLC 560698380.
- Jerusalem and Albion: The Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth-Century Literature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1964. OCLC 314544149.
- The Koren Jerusalem Bible. Jerusalem: Koren Publishers. 1967. OCLC 907788043.
- Hamlet and the Word: The Covenant Pattern in Shakespeare. New York: Ungar. 1971. OCLC 574587836.
- S.Y. Agnon. New York: Frederick Ungar. 1975. OCLC 612045386.
- The Zionist Revolution: A New Perspective. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1978. OCLC 641497444.
- A Remembered Future: A Study in Literary Mythology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1984. OCLC 1171238538.
- Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1990. OCLC 715575456.
- New Stories for Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. 1998. ISBN 9780230502352.
- Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. OCLC 781196210.
- Be-seter ʻelyon: paradoḳs u-setirah bi-meḳorot ha-Yahadut [Divine Contradictions: Judaism and the Language of Paradox] (in Hebrew). Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. 2001. OCLC 609321147.
- Who Knows One?: An Essay in Autobiography. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. 2004. OCLC 57344461.
References
- OCLC 950005790.
- ^ "Author Page: Harold Fisch". Bar-Ilan University Press. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Recipients of the Israel Prize: Prof. A. Harel Fisch". Israel Prize (in Hebrew). 15 August 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Morris Swift Dead at 76". Daily News Bulletin. Vol. 66, no. 179. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 21 September 1983.
- ISBN 978-90-04-32356-8.
- ^ Fisch, Menachem (27 September 2017). "Ambivalence as a Jewish Value". Tablet. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- OCLC 793104984.
- ISBN 978-0-429-64749-9.
- ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ISBN 978-90-04-32356-8.
- ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- OCLC 71366810.
- ^ "Lechter Institute for Literary Research". Bar-Ilan University. 27 March 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ISBN 978-1-4766-1023-8.
- OCLC 910088717.
- ^ S2CID 159476037.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-6739-0.
- ISBN 978-0-8204-8815-8.
- ISBN 978-0-87609-036-7.
- OCLC 57344461.