Dorothea Krook-Gilead

Dorothea Krook-Gilead (Hebrew: דורותיאה קרוק-גלעד b.1920, d.1989) was an Israeli literary scholar, a translator, and a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

Biography

Krook was born in Riga, Latvia and moved to South Africa at the age of eight. She earned a degree in English literature at the University of Cape Town. In 1946 she was awarded a scholarship to Newnham College, at Cambridge University, where she earned her Ph.D. and spent 14 years as a research fellow and assistant lecturer. Among her students there was the poet Sylvia Plath^[1], who wrote that Krook was her ideal of a successful career woman and wonderful human being. While at Newnham, Krook published her first major critical work, Three Traditions of Moral Thought.

In 1960, she immigrated to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of English Literature^[2].

Krook married the poet Zerubavel Gilad in 1968 and became a member of Kibbutz Ein Harod. She translated many of his poems into English.

Krook died on November 13, 1989.

Awards and honours

• In 1973, Krook was awarded the Israel Prize in the humanities^[3][4].

• In 1974, she became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Published works

• Three traditions of moral thought New York, Cambridge University Press, 1959
• The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James Cambridge, England 1962
• Elements of tragedy Yale University Press, 1969
• John Sergeant and his circle: a study of three seventeenth-century English Aristotelians (with Beverly C. Southgate) E.J. Brill, 1993

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

1. ^ http://www.sylviaplath.info/biography.html
2. ^ "Dorothea Krook (Gilead)". Encyclopaedia Judaica. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11646.html. 
3. ^ Dorothea Krook-Gilead: Mentor of Unfailing Grace Jerusalem Postby V. Eden Nov 16, 1989 p.02 abstract
4. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1973 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashlag/tashmab_tashlag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashlag. 

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