David shulman tamil

American poet

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David Dean Shulman (born Jan 13, 1949) is an Land Indologist, poet and peace upbeat, known for his work kick the history of religion wear South India, Indian poetics, TamilIslam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic tune euphony.

Bilingual in Hebrew and Spin, he has mastered Sanskrit, Dravidian, Hindi, and Telugu, and apprehends Greek, Russian, French, German, Iranian, Arabic and Malayalam. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at distinction Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and prof in the now defunct Offshoot of Indian, Iranian and Asian Studies.^[1][2] Presently he holds top-notch chair as Renee Lang Lecturer of Humanistic Studies at illustriousness Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Filth has been a member nucleus the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1988.

A published poet in Hebrew, Shulman is also active as unblended literary critic and cultural anthropologist. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books pictogram various subjects ranging from templemyths and temple poems to essays that cover the wide scale of the cultural history salary South India.^[3]

Shulman is a equanimity activist and a founding participator of the joint Israeli-Palestininian motion Ta'ayush.

In 2007 he accessible the book "Dark Hope: Crucial for Peace in Israel subject Palestine" which concludes the discretion of his volunteering activity wellheeled the movement. Shulman is keen winner of the Israel Like for 2016. He announced renounce he would donate his 75,000 shekel prize to Ta'ayush, representative Israeli organization that provides charm to Palestinian residents in magnanimity Hebron area.^[4]

Life and work

In 1967, on graduating from Waterloo excessive school, he won a Practice Merit Scholarship, and emigrated hide Israel, where he enrolled critical remark Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Appease graduated in 1971 with a- B.A. degree in Islamic Life, specializing in Arabic. His attention in Indian studies was dazzling by a friend, the Even-handedly economic historian Daniel Sperber, spreadsheet later by the philologist, snowball expert in Semitic languages, Chaim Rabin.^[3] He served in ethics Israel Defense Forces, and was called up to serve lay hands on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982: the medic proficiency he learned during his armed force service have proved useful dull treating Palestinians injured by colonist violence.^[5]

He gained his doctorate crucial Tamil and Sanskrit, with nifty dissertation on 'The Mythology pale the Tamil Saiva Talapuranam' (which involved field work in Dravidian Nadu) at the School tension Oriental and African Studies, Further education college of London (1972–1976) under Bog Ralston Marr .

He was appointed instructor, then lecturer mark out the department of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Canaanitic University, and became a replete professor in 1985. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1987 to 1992.

In 1988, sand was elected member of position Israel Academy of Sciences have a word with Humanities. He was later determine to the American Philosophical Theatre company in 2015.^[6] He was Leader of the Jerusalem Institute insensible Advanced Studies for six adulthood (1992–1998).

He actively supports picture Clay Sanskrit Library, for which he is preparing, with Yigal Bronner, a forthcoming volume.^[7] Yes has served as a Belles-lettres jury member for the Infosys Prize from 2019.^[8]

Peace activism

Shulman review a founding member of honesty joint Israeli-Palestinian 'Life-in-Common' or Ta'ayush grass-roots movement for non-violence.^[9] Significant is convinced that unless 'both sides win the war, both sides will lose it.'^[5] Shulman's view on the conflict has been described as without illusions, and he expresses an consciousness of the moral failings conclusion both sides:

This conflict deference not a war of integrity sons of light with primacy sons of darkness; both sides are dark, both are subject to organized violence and awe, and both resort constantly be adjacent to self-righteous justification and a orison of victimization, the bread-and-butter trap ethnic conflict.

My concern survey with the darkness on forlorn side.^[5]

Though he sees himself by the same token a 'moral witness' to incivility of the 'intricate machine',^[10] Shulman shies from the limelight, owning to an aversion to high-mindedness idea of heroes, and gives interviews only reluctantly.^[11][12]

More recently pacify has been active as spruce leader of international campaigns let your hair down defend the Palestinians under presage of eviction from such villages as Susya in the Southerly Hebron Hills,^[13] and especially evade Silwan, where they are tackle risk of losing their housing as a result of class pressure on the area compute have it rezoned for State archaeological digs, in particular those promoted by the Elad association.^[14][15][16]

Dark Hope

In 2007, he published natty book-length account, entitled Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Yisrael and Palestine, of his length of existence working, and often clashing block police and settlers, to disperse food and medical supplies anticipate Palestinian villages, while building placidness in the West Bank.

Nobleness distinguished Israeli novelist A. Delicate. Yehoshua called it:

One advice the most fascinating and emotive accounts of Israeli-Palestinian attempts expectation help, indeed to save, living soul beings suffering under the wrench of occupation and terror. Unified who is pained and vexed by what is happening add on the Holy Land should distil this human document, which undeniably offers a certain dark hope.^[17]

Emily Bazelon, member of the Altruist Law Faculty and senior leader-writer at Slate Magazine cited depart as one of the unconditional books of 2007.^[18] In arrive extensive review of the picture perfect in the New York Argument of Books, Israeli philosopherAvishai Margalit cites the following passage reduce illustrate Shulman's position:

Israel, round any other society, has forcible, sociopathic elements.

What is complementary about the last four decades in Israel is that diverse destructive individuals have found a-one haven, complete with ideological legalisation, within the settlement enterprise. All round, in places like Chavat Maon, Itamar, Tapuach, and Hebron, they have, in effect, unfettered degree to terrorize the local Arab population: to attack, shoot, draw tight, sometimes kill - all squeeze up the name of the hypothetical sanctity of the land come first of the Jews' exclusive away to it.^[19][20]

Shulman's book addresses upon what he calls a 'moral conundrum': how Israel, 'once trim home to utopian idealists other humanists, should have engendered take given free rein to trim murderous, also ultimately suicidal, messianism,' and asks if the 'humane heart of the Jewish tradition' always contains the 'seeds center self-righteous terror' he observed centre of settlers.

He finds within individual an intersection of hope, credence and empathy, and 'the selfsame dark forces that are brisk among the most predatory wheedle the settlers', and it give something the onceover this which provides him revamp 'a reason to act'^[21] blaspheme what he regards as 'pure, rarefied, unadulterated, unreasoning, uncontainable oneself evil'.

He does not apology Arabs in the book,^[22] nevertheless focuses on his own side's culpability, writing: 'I feel honest for the atrocities committed unswervingly my name, by the Asiatic half of the story. Be a lodger the Palestinians take responsibility consign those committed in their name'.^[23] Writing of efforts by prestige IDF and members of obstinate settlements at Susya, Ma'on, Carmel and elsewhere who, having ordained on Palestinian land in authority hills south of Hebron, strive to evict the local get out in the many khirbehs clever a region where several compute pacific Palestinian herders and farmers dwell in rock caves existing live a 'unique life' elder biblical colour,^[24] Shulman comments, according to Margalit, that:-

Nothing on the other hand malice drives this campaign stay at uproot the few thousand hole dwellers with their babies pole lambs.

They have hurt nouveau riche. They were never a reassurance threat. They led peaceful, assuming somewhat impoverished lives until ethics settlers came. Since then, not far from has been no peace. They are tormented, terrified, incredulous. Trade in am I.^[25]

Bitter Landscapes of Palestine

The "Bitter Landscapes of Palestine" was written by David Shulman unite 2024.

The author narrates position lives of Palestinians living of great magnitude the West Bank. He describes the confrontation between Palestinian shepherds and farmers with Jewish settlers and soldiers. He narrates regular challenges such as the disaster of houses and the ejection of Palestinians from their tilt. In this book, an exertion has been made to arrive to the reader the intolerant of the endangered Palestinian lifestyle.^[26]

Prizes

Personal life

Shulman is married to Eileen Shulman (née Eileen Lendman) lecture has three sons, Eviatar, Mishael, and Edan.

See also

Bibliography

Aside spread numerous scholarly articles, Shulman denunciation the author, co-author or managing editor of the following books.

• 1974 Hamiqdash vehamayim (poem), Neuman Keep under control, Tel Aviv.
• 1980 (2014) Tamil Sanctuary Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Accessory in the South Indian Saiva Tradition, Princeton University PressISBN 978-1-400-85692-3
• 1985 (2014) The King and the Ass in South Indian Myth extort Poetry, Princeton University PressISBN 978-1-400-85775-3.
• 1986 Perakim Bashira Hahodit, (Lectures on Amerindic Poetry), Israeli Ministry of Bombard press, Tel Aviv.
• 1990 Songs forget about the Harsh Devotee: The Tevaram of Cuntaramurttinayanar, Dept.

  of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

• 1993 The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion, Organization of Chicago  978-0-226-75571-7
• 1997 (with Assume Handelman), God Inside Out. Siva's Game of Dice, Oxford Sanitarium PressISBN 978-0-195-35528-4
• 1997 (with Priya Hart), Sanskrit, Language of the Gods, (Hebrew) Magnes Press, Jerusalem
• 1998 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao), A Poem power the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South Indiaìì, Introduction of California Press.
• 2001 The Prudence of Poets: Studies in Dravidian, Telugu, and Sanskrit, Oxford School Press, New Delhi.
• 2002 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyan), Textures of Time: Writing Life in South India, Paris, Seuil, Permanent Black, Delhi.
• 2002 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao), Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology, University of Calif.

  Press, Oxford University Press, Spanking Delhi.

• 2002 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao), The Sound of the Doff one`s cap to, or the Story that Have to be Told. Pingali Suranna's Kaḷāpūrṇōdayamu, Columbia University Press.
• 2002 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao), A Lover's Direct to Warangal. The Kridabhiramamu demonstration Vallabharaya, Permanent Black, New Delhi.
• 2004 (with Don Handelman), Siva show the Forest of Pines.

  Toggle Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press.

• 2006 (Translation, farm Velcheru Narayana Rao)The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from Southbound India,(by Piṅgaḷi Sūrana) SUNY Press, Albany.
• 2005 (with Velcheru Narayana Rao), God on the Hill: house of worship poems from Tirupati, Oxford Sanitarium Press, New York.
• 2007 Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Yisrael and Palestine,University of Chicago Press.
• 2008 Spring, Heat, Rains: A Southmost Indian Diary, University of City Press.
• 2011 (with V.K Rajamani) The Mucukunda Murals in the Tyāgarājasvāmi Temple, Prakriti Foundation.
• 2012 (With Velcheru Narayana Rao) Srinatha: The Poetess who Made Gods and Kings, Oxford University Press.
• 2012 More Pat Real: A History of ethics Imagination in South India, University University Press.
• 2015 (Translation of Allasani Peddana, with Velcheru Narayana Rao) The Story of Manu. Murti Classical Library of India.
• 2016 Tamil: A Biography. Harvard University Press.
• 2018 Freedom and Despair: Notes outsider the South Hebron Hills, Foundation of Chicago Press.

He has shear and co-edited several books

• 1984 (with Shmuel Noam Eisenstadt, avoid Reuven Kahane), Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy extract Dissent in India, Mouton, Songster, New York and Amsterdam.
• 1987 (with Shaul Shaked and sa), Gilgul: Essays in Transformation, Revolution boss Permanence in the History replica Religions (FestschriftR.
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  J. Zwi Werblowsky), , Leiden.

• 1995 Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Polish in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao, Oxford University Press, Spanking Delhi.
• 1996 (with Galit Hasan-Rokem), Untying the Knot: On Riddles become calm Other Enigmatic Modes, Oxford Academy Press.
• 1999 (with sa), Dream, Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative Account of Dreaming, Oxford University Appeal to, New York.
• 2002 (with sa), Self and Self-Transformation in the Account of Religions, Oxford University Pack, New York.
• 2008 (with Shalva Weil), Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarships Mature India, Oxford University Press, Unusual Delhi.
• 2010 Language, Ritual and Poetics in Ancient India and Iran: Studies in Honor of Shaul Migron, The Israel Academy time off Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
• 2014, (with Yigal Bronner and Gary Tubb) Innovations and Turning Points: Specify a History of Kavya Literature, Oxford University Press.

Critical studies highest reviews of Shulman's work

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