Rachel Albeck-Gidron

Rachel Albeck-Gidron is a literature scholar and associate Professor in the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. She has explored three chief subjects: 1. Interdisciplinary research integrating comparative literature, visual arts, and philosophy based on Leibniz’s Monadology theory; 2. Modern Hebrew literature starting in 1900 and; 3. Comparative probing of the Far East vis the Occident culture in literature, aesthetics, and philosophy, mainly in Yoel Hoffmann's works. 4. Textology; Theory of literary text’s genealogy; 5. Modern aspects of Ashkenazi pronunciation and rhythm in Modern Hebrew Literature.