The Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, welcomes Dr. Ann Brener as the new Area Specialist for Hebraic Studies. She assumed her duties in April, 2009.
Dr. Brener received a B.A. in Hebrew Literature/Jewish History from the Hebrew University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University. At Cornell, she was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and was the recipient of a Sage Graduate Fellowship and a Mario Enaudi Summer Travel Grant. She served as a research assistant at the Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry and as an English editor/translator in the Jewish Music Research Centre, both at Hebrew University. At Queens College of the City University of New York, she was an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, a Member of the Writing Requirements Committee and an Academic Advisor in the Hebrew Language Program. At Ben-Gurion University Dr. Brener was an Adjunct and a Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature, Library Liason for the Department of Hebrew Literature, and Department Co-cordinator for Graduate Student Final Exams. Dr. Brener is the author of two books, Isaac ibn Khalfun: A Wandering Hebrew Poet of the Eleventh Century (Leiden: Brill, 2003) and Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada (Leiden: Brill, 2005). She has written articles for scholarly publications such as Prooftexts, Italia, and Zutot and lectured on medieval Hebrew poetry. She has translated from Hebrew to English several books, including Dvora Bregman's The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet in the Renaissance and Baroque (Arizona State University Press, 2006), Jacob Katz's With My Own Eyes: The Autobiography of a Historian (University Press of New England, 1996), and Israel Adler's The Study of Jewish Music (Yuval Monograph Series, Vol. 10) (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1995). In addition, Dr. Brener has translated many articles from Hebrew to English. Examples include Edwin Seroussi, "Livorno: a Crossroads in the History of Sephardic Religious Music," The Mediterranean and the Jews: Society, Culture and Economy in Early Modern Times, ed. Eliot Horowitz and Moises Orfali (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2002), 131-154, and Reuven Bonfil, "A Cultural Profile," The Jews of Early Modern Venice, ed. Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid (John Hopkins University Press, 2001), 169-190. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
