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76:, the department's second woman ever to be tenured. This was followed, in 1966, by teaching for 36 years at Yale University and also becoming the second woman ever to be tenured by that University's department of English as well. 508: 437: 423: 234:. Using her knowledge of the Arabic language and culture, she served the Arab women, protecting their rights, with the vision of a bi-lingual bi-cultural state. 169:
alone, as Dorothee was ill at a Jerusalem hospital. Within several months Kraus was found dead, alleged to have committed suicide. She remarried the Jewish
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in 1945, and the couple had a daughter, Ruth. In 1947 Grdseloff developed cancer, and was hospitalized in Cairo, before the family was able to leave for
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Dorothee spent the next years traveling between Israel and Egypt - then enemy states, and tending to her husband, till his death in a
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She then took a position at the University of California, Berkeley's English department as lecturer and later, in 1964, as an
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where Devorah Metlitzky, head of Arab Women's section in the Histadrut, is invited as guest speaker at a Zionist banquet.
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in Jerusalem's department of English she moved to the US to attend Yale University, graduating with a PhD in 1954.
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Lawler, Traugott. “Dorothee Metlitzki: Pioneering academic passionate about English and Arab cultures.”
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who had come with his baby daughter from Cairo, after his wife's death at birth. Kraus left back to the
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with her sole daughter, and worked at Yale University. There she had a short marriage with the
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Metlitzki was born on July 27, 1914, in Russia. She obtained a BA and two MA degrees from the
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A study of Arabic influences on the literature and thought of the English Middle Ages.
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and spent 15 years there founding the English department at Hebrew University.
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Obituary. “Dorothee Metlitzki dies; scholar played role in Israel's founding.”
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She published several academic books dealing with her interests including
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Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale,"
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who played an important role in the foundation of the modern
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,480718,00.html
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In the late 1930s, Before the establishment of the state of
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University of California: In Memoriam Dorothee Metlitzki
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on the development of the State of Israel. She moved to
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Having left Lithuania for London following outbreaks of
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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University of California, Berkeley
Yale University
medieval
English literature
Arabic literature
Herman Melville
Zionist
State of Israel
University of London
Hebrew University
associate professor
The Matter of Araby in Medieval England
Königsberg
East Prussia
Yekaterinburg
Russia
King of Denmark
Russian Revolution
Lithuania
antisemitism
Aubrey Eban
Golda Meir
Moshe Sharet
Jerusalem
World War II
Arabist
Paul Kraus
University of Cairo
Egyptologist
Bernhard Grdseloff

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