Английская Википедия:Harold Fisch

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Harold Fisch (25 March 1923, Birmingham – 8 November 2001, Jerusalem), also known as Aharon Harel-Fisch (Шаблон:Lang-he), was a British-Israeli author, literary critic, translator, and diplomat.Шаблон:R He was a Professor of English and Comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University, of which he served as Rector from 1968 to 1971.Шаблон:R He was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.Шаблон:R

Biography

Harold (Aharon) Fisch was born in Birmingham to Rebecca (née Swift) and Rabbi Dr. Solomon Fisch. His mother was the sister of Rabbi Morris Swift, who was a dayan of the London Beth Din for nearly two decades.Шаблон:R Fisch's father, born in Wolbrom, Poland, studied at Rabbi Solomon Breuer's yeshiva in Frankfurt before emigrating to England in 1920, where he received a doctorate from the University of Manchester.Шаблон:RШаблон:R As a child, Fisch moved between Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Leeds, where his father took up posts as a congregational rabbi.Шаблон:R

Fisch began his undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of Sheffield in 1940, at the age of 17. His studies were interrupted by his service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1945, as an officer on HMS Meynell and HMS Kildary.Шаблон:R He completed his B.A. in 1946, and was appointed Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds the following year, meanwhile serving as chairman of the Inter-University Jewish Federation.Шаблон:R In 1948, he received his BLitt from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on Calvinist bishop Joseph Hall.Шаблон:R

Academic career

In 1957, Fisch immigrated to Israel with his wife and four children, and accepted an associate professorship in English literature at the newly founded Bar-Ilan University.Шаблон:R He was appointed full professor in 1964, and held the position of Rector from 1968 to 1971.Шаблон:R Fisch founded the Kotler Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought in 1971, and the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in 1981, of which he served as chairman until his retirement from Bar-Ilan in 1987.Шаблон:RШаблон:R

Fisch was responsible for the English translation of the Tanakh for the Koren Jerusalem Bible (1964), based on Michael Friedländer's Jewish Family Bible,Шаблон:RШаблон:R which is still in publication and on its third edition.Шаблон:R

Zionist activism

Fisch participated in the establishment of the Neo-Zionist Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War.Шаблон:RШаблон:R His 1972 work A Zionist Revolution included a defense of Gush Emunim, based on the ideas of Menachem Kasher and Abraham Isaac Kook.Шаблон:RШаблон:R During the era of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Fisch was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 32nd General Assembly of the United Nations.Шаблон:R He declined an offer from the Prime Minister to occupy the position of Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands.Шаблон:R

Awards and recognition

Fisch was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000. He died on 8 November 2001 of a tumor discovered two weeks earlier.Шаблон:R

Published works

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