Professor
Hillel Matthew Daleski
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1926
2010
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Jerusalem, Israel
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1999
International Honorary Member
Professor Hillel Daleski was a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a scholar of English literature. His research focused on theory of the novel and on the fiction of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in England. He has published books on Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, and Lawrence and collections of essays on a large number of other prominent novelists in these periods and received the Israel Prize for literature studies. In 1944 he joined the South African army and fought in Italy. In 1947, he graduated in English and history from Witwatersrand University in South Africa. In 1952 he received his M.A. in English from Witwatersrand University and settled Israel with his wife and infant daughter. In 1963 he received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, teaching there from 1954 and becoming a professor in 1976. He also served as provost of the School for Overseas Students in 1973–76 and was twice head of the English department, in 1968–70 and 1984–85. In 1985 he was president of the International Dickens Society. He was also professor in the English departments of Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion universities and consultant in the establishment of the English department in Haifa University. Daleski became a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1993. Daleski passed away in 2010.
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