Gershon Shaked
גרשון שקד
Gershon Shaked (1929-2006) was born in Vienna, Austria, and arrived in Israel with his family in 1939. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received a PhD in Hebrew literature. He also studied German, English and French literature in Switzerland. Shaked was Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In addition to many books in Hebrew, he was the author of more than thirty books of criticism in several languages. Shaked received the Bialik Prize (1986), the Israel Prize for Literary Scholarship (1992) and the Bahat Award for Non-Fiction (2004).
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