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Yaron Peleg

Yaron Peleg is a native of Israel who received his PhD in Hebrew literature from Brandeis University, where he has taught Hebrew language and literature and Israeli culture from 1993 to 2001. Dr. Peleg is currently the coordinator of the Hebrew Program.

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Yael Margalit Moses is an eighth generation native of Israel who earned her M.A. at the Baltimore Hebrew University in Judaic Studies, with a concentration in Hebrew Literature and her M.S. from Towson University in Instructional technology. Professor Moses has taught Hebrew Language and Literature at The George Washington University since September 1977. An Assistant Professor of Hebrew, she served as the Hebrew Program Coordinator until 1999. During her tenure as coordinator the program grew to include four years of Hebrew course offerings. She created and taught the Israeli Media course targeting special needs of students in the Elliott School of International Affairs, both under graduate and graduate. Her research and development area has been mainly in the realm of Instructional Technology. She has developed a multimedia-interactive software package to be used by students to master the writing of the Hebrew cursive alphabet. Her ongoing contributions to the Language Laboratory have included original instructional and enrichment materials focusing on the development of listening comprehension and writing skills.

  Max Ticktin received his masters of Hebrew literature and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1947 and a D. D from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the New School for Social Research and the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1977. Professor Ticktin teaches Hebrew language, contemporary Israeli literature, history of modern Hebrew literature, Yiddish language, modern Jewish literatures, "Roots of Western Civilization", Hebrew Prophets; Biblical Wisdom Literature.


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