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FACULTY PROFILES-Hebrew

DR. YARON PELEG (ypeleg @ gwu.edu), Associate Professor of Hebrew, 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 an Assistant Professor and the coordinator of the Hebrew Program. His publications include Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination (2005) and Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Hebrew Literature, 1880-2000 (2003, in Hebrew). His most recent book, Between Two Intifadas: Israeli Culture in a Post National Age, has just been published by the University of Texas Press (2009).

 

 
SHOSHANA MARCUS (slmarcus @ gwu.edu), Hebrew Language Specialist, is a native of Israel. She studied for her B.A. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in 1990 received her M.A. in Judaic Studies (Midrash) from the Hebrew College in Boston. From 1992-1996 she taught Hebrew at Brandeis University to graduate students in the Horenstein Program. In 2007 Professor Marcus became a full-time lecturer in Hebrew at GWU and she currently teaches all the Hebrew Beginning classes at the GW
Hebrew Program.

MAX TICKTIN (sariel @ gwu.edu) 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.

YAEL MARGALIT MOSES, Emeritus Assistant Professor of Hebrew, 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 taught Hebrew Language and Literature at The George Washington University from 1977 until 2007 and 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.