Dorothea Krook-Gilead

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| birth_date = 11 February 1920

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Newnham College, Cambridge

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel Aviv University

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| notable_works = Three Traditions of Moral Thought (1959)
The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James (1962)
Elements of Tragedy (1969)
John Sergeant and his circle: a study of three seventeenth-century English Aristotelians (1993)

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Dorothea Krook-Gilead ({{Langx|he|דורותיאה קרוק-גלעד}}; b. 11 February 1920 d. 13 November 1989) was an Israeli literary scholar, translator, and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

Biography

Krook was born in Riga, Latvia and moved to South Africa at the age of eight. She earned a degree in English literature at the University of Cape Town. In 1946 she was awarded a scholarship to Newnham College, at the University of Cambridge, where she earned her Ph.D. and spent 14 years as a research fellow and assistant lecturer. Among her students there was the poet Sylvia Plath,{{cite web|url=http://www.sylviaplath.info/biography.html|title=A celebration, this is|website=www.sylviaplath.info|access-date=2018-01-08}} who wrote that Krook was her ideal of a successful career woman and wonderful human being. While at Newnham, Krook published her first major critical work, Three Traditions of Moral Thought.

In 1960, she emigrated to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of English Literature.{{cite web | url =https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11646.html | title =Dorothea Krook (Gilead) | publisher =Encyclopaedia Judaica }}

Krook married the poet Zerubavel Gilad in 1968 and became a member of Kibbutz Ein Harod. She translated many of his poems into English.

Krook died on 13 November 1989.

Awards and honours

In 1973, Krook was awarded the Israel Prize in the humanities.Dorothea Krook-Gilead: Mentor of Unfailing Grace Jerusalem Postby V. Eden Nov 16, 1989 p.02 [https://archive.today/20120714032544/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99194638.html?dids=99194638:99194638&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+16,+1989&author=VIVIAN+EDEN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=DOROTHEA+KROOK-GILEAD:+MENTOR+OF+UNFAILING+GRACE&pqatl=google abstract]{{cite web |title=Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1973 (in Hebrew) |url=http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashlag/tashmab_tashlag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashlag |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721141146/http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashlag/tashmab_tashlag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashlag |archivedate=2011-07-21 }}
In 1974, she became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Published works

Three traditions of moral thought New York, Cambridge University Press, 1959
The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James Cambridge, England 1962
Elements of tragedy Yale University Press, 1969
John Sergeant and his circle: a study of three seventeenth-century English Aristotelians (with Beverly C. Southgate) E.J. Brill, 1993