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Nurith Gertz

Nurith Gertz is an Israeli writer and scholar of Hebrew literature and film, and Professor Emerita at The Open University of Israel.

born 1940Research on Israeli and Palestinian cinemaStudy of myths in Israeli cultureUnrepentant, a book on Amos Kenan

Born: 8 October 1940, Jerusalem
Occupation: writer, literary theorist, philologist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University

Nurith Gertz was born in 1940 in Jerusalem

Nurith Gertz was born in Jerusalem in 1940 to Dvorah Gertz, a biology teacher, and Aharon Gertz. She is the granddaughter of the writer Zvi Zevulun Weinberg. She studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia and the Kanot Agricultural School.

She earned a B.A. in literature and political science from the Hebrew University in 1969. At Tel Aviv University she completed an M.A. in 1973, with a thesis on Amos Oz, and a doctorate in 1979 on the generation of the sixties in Hebrew prose.

She wrote literary, film and theater criticism for Haolam Hazeh and Yedioth Ahronoth. She joined The Open University in the early 1980s and moved her research to film in the 1990s. She became full professor in 2001, headed theoretical film studies at Tel Aviv University from 2003 to 2009, and headed a department at Sapir College from 2008 to 2016.

Her books include a study of myths in Israeli culture, a book on Palestinian cinema with George Khleifi, and two documentary-fictional works about her mother and about Amos Kenan. She met Kenan in Paris in 1963, and they had 2 daughters, Shlomzion and Rona Kenan. They married in 2001 and stayed married until his death in 2009. She lives in Jerusalem.