Hillel Weiss

Hillel Weiss

Hillel Weiss is a professor of literature at Bar Ilan University Israel and is described as a Neo-Zionist. [Uri Ram, " [http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/9780472115419-ch8.pdf The Future of the Past in Israel - A Sociology of Knowledge Approach] ", in Benny Morris, "Making Israel", the University of Michigan Press, 2007.]

Biography

Hillel Weiss is a tenured professor at The Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Served as head of the Department of Hebrew Literature and changed its name to the Department of Literature of the Jewish People. Edited the journal “Bokoret U’parshanut” a journal of literary criticism. Weiss is a researcher of modern Hebrew literature, who has been specializing in research on Agnon’s writing. He has published five books on the study of Agnon and other works that deal with modern Hebrew prose. He developed the computerized study of Agnon using Literary strategies, the database holds the complete works of S. Y. Agnon last edition 2,500,000 words that can be accessed online through a retrieval system. The access is through three main frames. Frame A: Poetics. General typhology, genres; motifs sources, poetic functions Frame B index of subjects, philosophy, history; society; psychology Frame C indices of individual works according to A and B, index of place and names, index of synopses; abstracts of criticism; bibliography

Weiss was one of the founders of the religious peace movement in the early 1970s. Today he preaches the necessity of rebuilding the Temple and of Jewish rule over Greater Israel. [Haaretz "Weiss versa" by Avi Garfunkel,30 January, 2004] [ [http://friendvill0104.homestead.com/Weiss.html friendvill0104 (copy of Ha'aretz article)] ] [ [http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1915134.htm ABC News] ]

Weiss was the cause of a controversy during the 2005 Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem when he said "this abomination should be expelled from the Holy City by any means necessary." [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011253.html Ha'aretz] 13 August 2008 "Prof. charged with incitement to violence for comments on Gay Pride parade"]

Weiss became the subject of another controversy due to comments he made in August 2007, during the eviction of his daughter, Tehila Yahalom, from the Hebron wholesale market. [ [http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=332 Hebron.com] ] Moshe Kaveh, president of Bar-Ilan University said about the incident:

"His statements were horrific and need condemnation and public denunciation... The university views his actions very gravely, and demands he take responsibility for them," [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892900.html Ha'aretz] 13 August 2007 "Professor says leftist "terrorists" made him apologize for Comments"]

Council for Peace and security; association of national security experts in Israel censured Hillel Weiss for his cursing of the Hebron commander. [ [http://www.peace-security-council.org/flashes.asp?id=644 Council for Peace and security] ]

Hillel Weiss accuses secular Jews of betrayal of their cultural heritage if they deny the Masada Mythical narrative. [Nachman Ben-Yehuda (1996) The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel Univ of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299148343, 9780299148348 p 287]

Weiss in “The Messianic Theme in AB Yehoshua and Amos Oz invokes the Holocaust as a cognitive filter to describe the actions of the right wing Israeli government and portrays post Zionism as a negation of a Jewish State, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel. [Editors Shlomo Sharan, Merkaz Ari’el le-meḥḳere mediniyut (2003) Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk Sussex Academic Press, ISBN 1903900522, 9781903900529 p 204-226] And Israel’s left wing as having a jihad against the Jews. [ [http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2007/08/madman-hillel-weiss.html myrightword] ]

Weiss views the Jewish experience as an "ongoing Shoah". [S. Lillian Kremer , (2003) Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work Taylor & Francis ISBN 0415929849, 9780415929844 p 822]

Published works

(he) "Defamation: Israeli Litterature of Elimination", Beit El, 1992.

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