Miriam Meir
Senior Lecturer of Hebrew Language
Department: Hebrew Language
Phone: (212) 280-6094
Email: mimeir@jtsa.edu
Building Room: Brush 204
Office Hours: By Appointment
Miriam Meir is the Area Coordinator of Jewish Languages and a senior lecturer of Hebrew language. She has been teaching Hebrew language and literature at 91快播 since 2008 and joined the 91快播 faculty as a full-time member in 2011. She has led the Hebrew language program at 91快播 since 2014.
Having emigrated to Israel (and to Orthodox Judaism) as a child, she remembers vividly what it was like to learn Hebrew from scratch, Ivrit be-Ivrit, and is deeply committed to teaching Hebrew language and discourse as a key to Jewish culture and learning. The curriculum she developed at 91快播 employs the communicative method of second-language instruction to teach Hebrew speaking, listening comprehension, writing鈥揳nd reading of texts from classical to contemporary.
Current research and curriculum-writing interests include: Hebrew grammar pedagogy; teaching the language of modern Hebrew poetry as a gateway to fluency; and second language acquisition and instruction for students with language-based learning differences.
Ms. Meir holds an M.A. in Jewish Literature from 91快播 and a B.A. in Philosophy and Life Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was trained as a Hebrew language teacher at the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University.
Ms. Meir also translates articles and books into Hebrew, specializing in the field of Jewish thought.
Select Translations:
- Ephraim Meir, 诪注砖讛 讝讻专讜谉: 讞讘专讛, 讗讚诐 讜讗诇讜讛讬诐 讗讞专讬 讗讜砖讜讜讬抓, (Towards an Active Memory: Philosophy after the Shoah), Translation from Dutch into Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2006
- Eric Santner, 注诇 讛驻住讬讻讜-转讗讜诇讜讙讬讛 砖诇 讞讬讬 讛讬讜诐-讬讜诐: 讛专讛讜专讬诐 注诇 驻专讜讬讚 讜专讜讝谞爪讜讜讬讬讙, (On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life), Translation from English into Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2005
- Harm de Jonge, 专讬拽讜讚 砖诇 谞住讬讱 (Jesse Ballewal-tsji), Translation from Dutch into Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot 鈥� Sifrei Hemed, 2004
- Jean-G茅rard Bursztein, 讛驻住讬讻讜讗谞诇讬讝讛 砖诇 讛谞讗爪讬讝诐 (The Psychoanalysis of Nazism), Translation from French into Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2004
- Ephraim Meir, 驻讬诇讜住讜驻讬诐 讬讛讜讚讬诐 拽讬讜诪讬讬诐 讘专讘-砖讬讞 (Jewish Existential Philosophers in Dialogue), Editing and Translation from Dutch into Hebrew. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2004
