Education

Prof. Zipora Kagan holds degree of Doctor of Fhilosophy from the Hebrew University at Jerusalem.
Since 1970 she has been teaching at Haifa University in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature. She is currently the Editor of Dappim Lemehkar besifrut (Pages - Research in literature) published by the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature of Haifa University.

Modern Hebrew Literature, Rabbinical Literature - links between Hebrew literature and our classical heritage (biblical and talmudic-midrashic literature).

Courses Taught in Recent Years

• Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature.
• Between Cultural Consciousness and Literary Form (1988).
• Halacha and Aggada as a code of Literature (1989).
• Metaphor in Berdyczewskis work (1992).
• Language and Identity in Yaakov Shabtais Work (1994).
• A Research Edition of a Literary Text (1997).
• Halacha and Aggada - Law and Literature in Modern Hebrew Literature (2001).
• Trends and Genres in Modern Hebrew Literature (2001).
  

Publications

Books

In print
1. From Aggada to Modern Fiction in the Works of Berdyczewski, Hakibbutz Hameuchad & Haifa University (Tel Aviv, 1983), 128pp. (Hebrew).
2. Halakha and Aggada as a code of Literature, Mossad Bialik (Jerusalem 1988), 160pp. (Hebrew).
3. A Completed Novel: Research Edition of Berdyczewskis Novel Miriam, University of Haifa Press & Zmora-Bitan-Dvir (Tel Aviv, 1997), 330pp. (Hebrew).
4. From the Copper Raven to Skys line Horizon, Forth coming in Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press. (Hebrew).

As Editor
1. Thought and Fiction in the Work of Berdyczewski: A Symposium (1981). (Hebrew).
2. Shimon Halkin, Currents and Forms in Modern Hebrew Literature, Haskala and Hibbat Zion (1984). (Hebrew).
3. M.J. Berdyczewki, From Tow Worlds (notes and afterword) (1988). (Hebrew).
4. David Frishman, In the Desert: Biblical Tales (1990). (Hebrew).
5. Eighteen Folktales from the Jewish-Ashkenazi Tradition (1964). (Hebrew).
6. A Story for Every Month: Twelve Folktales (1965). (Hebrew).
7. A Fathers Will to Yehoshua ben Zion: Thirteen Folktale from Afghanistan (1969). (Hebrew).

Selected Articles

1. Sources and Originality in Hayim Avraham Katzs 18th Century Play War in Peace, Bamah 43 (1969): 62-67 and Bamah ,44 (1970): 70-78; (Hebrew).
2. Divergent Tendencies and Their Literary Moulding in th e Aggada, Scripta Hierosolymitana (1971): 151-170; (English).
3. From Folktale to Novella, Genre, State University, Plattsburgh NY, Vol. II, No. 4, 1974, pp. 362-391. (English).
4. The Knot of Existence in Yaakov Shabtais Zichron Devarim, Aley Siah (Discussion Papers), Hakibbutz Hammeuhad, 1980, pp. 61-74. (Hebrew).
5. The Spirit that Rises to Heaven, the Body Will Be Wrapped in Shadows (on Yaakov Shabtais Zichron Devarim), Haaretz Culture and Literature Suplement, 4 April 1981. (Hebrew).
6. With a Desperate Effort to Create Life Beyond All Laws and Possibilities (on Yaakov Shabtais Zichron Devarim), Haaretz Culture and Literature Suplement, 11 April 1984. (Hebrew).
7. Writing on the wall, Igra, A Literary Almmanac for Literature and Art, Keter, Jerusalem, 1984, pp. 59-74. (Hebrew).
8. Writing on the wall, Jerusalem Quarterly (1985): 31-40; (English).
9. Oreah nata lalun: Between Code and Key, Dappim lemehkar besifrut (Pages in Literary Research), University of Haifa, Vol. ,5/6 1989, pp. 29-42. (Hebrew).
10. Delusions of Identity or Hybrids of Identity?: The Halbjude Controversy: Lessing, Serner, Deblin, Igra, A Literary Almmanac for Literature and Art, Keter, Jerusalem (1990); (Hebrew).
11. Research Directions in the Correspondence between Micha Yosef Berdyczewki and David Neumark, Tura (Collection of Papers on Thought and Study in Jewish Philosophy), Hakibbutz Hammeuhad, 1992, pp. 82-103. (Hebrew).
12. Shaar hashmayim: Tolda and Metaphor in Berdyczewkis novel Miriam, , Dappim lemehkar besifrut (Pages in Literary Research), University of Haifa, vol. ,10 1996, pp. 7-28. (Hebrew).
13. The Blind Spot of Jewish Self-Identity in the Work of M.J. Berdyczewski, in The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature, eds. H.J. Schrader, M. Simon, and C. Wordi, Max Neimeyer Verlag (Tubingen, 1996), pp. 231-136. (English).
14. Goldmanns drei Erlosungsvision - Jaakow Shabtais Moderner Klassiker, Judischer Almanach (Frankfurt am Main, 1997): 118-128; (German).
15. Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewki and the Anthological Genre, Prooftexts19; (1999): 41-57; (English).