Prof. Yochanan Breuer

11 Hagoren st.

P.O.B. 1370, Efrat 90435, Israel

Tel. (02) 993-2538

Born: 1954, Israel

Status: Married + 4

Education

1986-93           Hebrew University, Department of Hebrew language (Ph.D)

1982-86           Hebrew University, Department of Hebrew Language (MA)

1977-80          Hebrew University, Department of Talmud and Hebrew Language (BA)

1976-77           Yeshivat “Netzach Yisrael”, Jerusalem

1975-77           Herzog Teachers’ Training Institute, Alon Shevut

1971-76           Yeshivat Har Etzion, Alon Shevut

Military Service: 1972-76

Positions at the Hebrew University

2007-               Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew language

2001-06           Head of the Department of Hebrew Language

1999-2007       Senior lecturer, Department of Hebrew language

1996-99          Director of the Division of Hebrew Language Instruction, Rothberg School for Overseas Students

1995-99           Lecturer, Department of Hebrew language

1986-96           Instructor, Department of Hebrew language

1983-88           Instructor, Department of Talmud

Positions outside the Hebrew Universtiy

2009-             Member, The Academy of the Hebrew Language

2002-09         Associate Member, The Academy of the Hebrew Language

1994-95         Visiting Lecturer at Yeshiva University, New York

1994-95         Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York

1992-94         Herzog Teachers’ Training Institute, Alon Shevut (instructor)

1983-85         The Academy of the Hebrew Language, The Historical Dictionary Project (researcher)

1979-82           Yeshivat “Shevut Yisrael”, Efrat (instructor)

Invited short courses outside the Hebrew Universtiy

2000-2004      Various courses on the History of the Hebrew Language, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU), The Institute of Asian and African Studies, Russia

2001              Course on the Language of S.Y. Agnon, University of Milan, Italy

2011              Course on the Comparison between Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Germany

Prizes

E.Y. Kutscher prize    1980

Golda Meir prize        1986

Varburg prize             1990-91

E. S. Rosenthal prize 1992

E. Urbach prize           1996-97

Alon prize                   1997-2000