Nancy Ezer | |
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Born | October 16, 1947 |
Died | January 31, 2022 74) New York NY US | (aged
Occupation | Instructor, author |
Nationality | Israeli Jew, United States |
Alma mater | Tel Aviv University, University of California, Los Angeles |
Genre | Hebrew literature |
Notable works | Literature and Ideology |
Nancy Ezer (Hebrew: נַנְסִי עֶזֶר) was a scholar, critic of Hebrew literature, author, and Senior Lecturer in Hebrew in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She earned her B.A. from Tel Aviv University as well as a teaching certificate. She received her master's degree in 1983 and her PhD in Hebrew literature, also from UCLA in 1987. [1]
Ezer taught at UCLA from 1987 until her retirement in 2021. She offered courses in all levels of Hebrew and was conferred the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. [2] Ezer was also recognized in 2008 by the UCLA Office of Instructional Development for her technological achievement in successfully creating an electronic Hebrew workbook to facilitate the assimilation of the Hebrew language. [3] In addition to her native Hebrew, she was also fluent in English and Arabic and had a working knowledge of French and Yiddish. Ezer was a member of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, and since 2005, she served as the Book Review Editor of Hebrew Higher Education.
Her various articles examine Modern and Post-Modern Hebrew novels, interrogating their rhetorical treatments of the Zionist meta-narrative and their conceptualization of an Israeli identity through various genres and literary modes. [4]
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