Rachel Albeck-Gidron

Rachel Albeck-Gidron was born in 1960 in Jerusalem

Rachel Albeck-Gidron was born in Jerusalem on April 20, 1960. She is the daughter of law professor Shalom Albeck and jurist Plia Albeck, and a granddaughter of Talmud scholar Hanoch Albeck and of Yitzhak Nebenzahl, Israel's second State Comptroller. She grew up in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and served in National Civil Service.

She studied at Bar-Ilan University. Her MA thesis, submitted in 1985, compared Leibniz's Monadology with the existentialism of Sartre. She earned her PhD there in 1998, with a dissertation on Leibniz's theory of monads as a model for 20th-century literature.

She teaches Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan University. Her research links literature, art and philosophy, and covers modern Hebrew literature, Ashkenazi pronunciation in Hebrew prose, and the works of Yoel Hoffmann. She held visiting posts at Stanford University, Osaka University, the University of Potsdam and the University of Lille.

She headed the literature committee of Sal Tarbut Artzi and sits on several editorial boards. She also studied realist painting with Israel Hershberg and works in charcoal, pastel and oil. She is married to literature scholar Avidov Lipsker and has two children.