Jacob Elbaum

Dept. of Hebrew Literature - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Personal Information:

Date of Birth: 3.1.1939
Country of Birth: Israel
Family Status: Widower w/ 3 children (1964, 1968, 1969)
Army Service: August 1960 – February 1963
Chief Instructor – Central Military School for Education, Camp Marcus
1 963-1980 – Armored Corps Division
1980-1990 – Home Front Command, Officer in Educational Institutions

Home: HaBanai 36, Jerusalem , 96264

Education:
1958-1960       The Hebrew University - BA - Hebrew Literature and Jewish History
1963-1966       TheHebrew University - MA - Hebrew Literature and Jewish History (Summa Cum Laude)
1977               The Hebrew University- PhD - Hebrew Literature (Summa Cum Laude)

Main Fields of Academic Research:
Midrashic and Aggadic Literature.
Medieval Hebrew Literature (esp. Homiletical Literature)
The Spiritual-Cultural Creativity of Polish and Ashkenazic Jewry in the Middle Ages.
Old Yiddish Literature
Hasidic Literature (Hasidic Homiletics and Narrratives)

Faculty Positions at Hebrew University:

1993-	Hebrew University	Full Professor	Hebrew Literature
1987-1993	Hebrew University	Assistant Professor	Hebrew Literature
1984-1987	Hebrew University	Senior Lecturer	Hebrew Literature
1980-1984	Hebrew University	Lecturer	Hebrew Literature
1973-1980	Hebrew University	Instructor	Hebrew Literature
1967-1973	Hebrew University	Assistant	Hebrew Literature
1964-1967	Hebrew University	Teaching Aide	Hebrew Literature

Positions at Other Universities

1978-1979	Harvard University - Ukrainian Research Institute and Center for Jewish Studies	Research Fellow
1979	J.T.S. N.Y.	Visiting Professor (Summer Courses)
1983-1984	J.T.S. N.Y.	Visiting Professor (First Semester)
1983-1984	Columbia University – Center for Israel and Jewish Studies	Visiting Scholar
1985	J.T.S. N.Y.	Visiting Professor (Summer Courses)
1987-1988	Harvard University – Center for Jewish Studies	Visiting Scholar in Hebrew Literature, and in History of Polish Jewry.
1991-1998	J.T.S. Jerusalem	The Seminary of Judaic Studies
1992-1993	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - The Institue for Advanced Studies	Fellow - Research Group on “Jewish History in the Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods.
1994	Oxford University – Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies	Visiting Scholar
1996	Oxford University , Wolfson College	Member of the Common Room (Short Term Visiting Scholar)
1998-1999	Oxford University , Wolfson College	Visiting Scholar
2000	University of Cambridge – Oriental Studies	Visiting Scholar
2001-2002	University of Pennsylvania – Center for Advanced Judaic Studies	Fellow

Awards, Grants and Prizes

1961	Meir Hefez Award for Jewish History.
1972-1973	Grant - Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
1979-1980	Warburg “B” Prize.
1980	Fellowship Grants – Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
1983-1985	Fellowship Grants - Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
1990	Grants- Lubin Foundation for Judaic Studies Publications and the American Academy for Jewish Research
1990	Leib Yaffe Prize of the United Israel Appeal for Openness and Insularity: Late Sixteenth Century Jewish Literature in Poland and Ashkenaz, Jerusalem (Magnes Press) 1990.
1992	Grants - Lubin Foundation and the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Other Positions at Hebrew University

1982-1983	Research Committee	Institute of Jewish Studies
	Publications Committee	Institute of Jewish Studies
1983	Library Committee	Faculty of Humanities
1983	Acquisition Committee	Faculty of Humanities
1983	Folklore Committee	Advanced Studies – Faculty of Humanities
1984	Talmud Studies Committee	Institute of Jewish Studies
1983-1986	Head of Aggadah and Folk Literature Section	Dept. of Hebrew Literature
1987-1989	Chairman	Dept. of Hebrew Literature
1989-1992	Research Committee	Faculty of Humanities
1990-1991	Instructional Committee	Institute of Jewish Studies
1990-1993	Co-editor	Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature
1992-1998	Member	Authority for Research Students
1992	Member	Authority for Research Students – Literature and Linguistics
1993-1994	Chairman, sub-committee	Authority for Research Students - Literature and Linguistics
1993-	Academic Board	The Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews
1993-	Editorial Board	The Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews.
1995-1998	Head of Aggadah and Folk Literature Section	Dept. of Hebrew Literature
1996-1998	Supervisor – MA Studies	Dept. of Hebrew Literature
1998-2000	Member – Committee for Advanced Studies	Faculty of Humanities
1998-	Member – Editorial Board, Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature	The Center for Literary Studies
2000	Member - Board of Directors	The Center for Literary Studies
2003 –2004	Member – Professional Committee for Hebrew and Jewish Literature	Faculty of Humanities
2004	Editor	Tarbiz – Quarterly for Jewish Studies

Academic Activities Outside of Hebrew University

1993-	Editorial Board	Jewish Studies Quarterly, J.C.B Mohr Tubingern
1993-	Editorial Board	‘Dorot’ The Bialik Institute
1998-2001	Member - Committee Talmud and Midrash	Ministry of Education
1999-2001	Head – Committee Talmud and Midrash	Ministry of Education

Membership in Professional Societies

World Union of Jewish Studies ( Israel )

A.J.S. ( United States of America )

The Historical Society of Israel ( Israel )

Doctoral Students

Natan Ophir - R` Ch. Crescas (Additional Supervisor: Prof. Ravitsky) Completed 1993

Ora Wiskind – Stories of R` Nachman of Breslav – Completed1994

Yair Barkai – Aggadot of the Sages – Completed 1998

Giorgio Fovini – Pesiqta de Rab Kahana - In Stages of Completion

Yael Wieselberg – Maharal – Proposal approved

Sara Friedland Ben Arza – R` Tzadok HaCohen from Lublin – Proposal Approved

Rachel Adelman – Pirqe de Rabbi Eliezer

Meshulam Gotlieb – Yalkut Lekah Tov

Eygo Tomasiu – Ein Yaakov

Chen Marx