Dan Miron

Dan Miron (דן מירון, born 1934) is an Israeli-born American literary critic and author.

An expert on modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University.

Since the 1950s Professor Miron published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on different modern Hebrew and also Yiddish writers, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Nathan Alterman, Uri Zvi Greenberg and Sholem Aleichem.

In 2012, Miron co-founded Afik Publishing House of Israeli Literature with Iftach Alony and Lily Perry.

Published works

 * From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (2010)
 * The Image of the Shtetl, Syracuse UP (2000)
 * A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (1973)
 * From the Worm a Butterfly Emerges

Awards and critical acclaim

 * In 1980, Miron was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.
 * In 1998, he was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters.
 * In 1993, he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew literature.
 * In 2010, he won a National Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category for From Continuity to Contiguity
 * In 2020 he was chosen as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

The Jewish Daily Forward called Miron "the doyen of Israeli literary criticism."