Margalit Finkelberg
Israeli historian and linguist
Margalit Finkelberg (née Karpyuk; born 1947) (Hebrew: מרגלית פינקלברג) is an Israeli historian and linguist. She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2016. In 2021, she was elected vice president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Early life
Finkelberg was born in Minsk on March 8, 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 1975. She received a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
Finkelberg began teaching in 1987 at the Hebrew University and from 1991 taught at Tel Aviv University. While there, she was the recipient of the 1991 Gildersleeve Prize from the Johns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology. A few years later, while still teaching at Tel Aviv University, Finkelberg published The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece in 1998. From 1999 to 2000, Finkelberg studied as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began to craft her future book Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.
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