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Ruth Fine

Ruth Fine is an Israeli literary scholar and professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for her research on Cervantes.

born 1957Research on CervantesSpanish Golden Age literatureFounding Israel's Hispanists association

Born: 24 March 1957, Buenos Aires
Occupation: literary theorist, head of department, university teacher, literary scholar
Education: University of Buenos Aires, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ruth Fine was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires

Ruth Fine was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the Nosnovich family. In 1981 she earned a master's degree from the University of Buenos Aires in general and comparative literature, Spanish literature and philology. That same year she immigrated to Israel.

She became a lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University in 1991. She received her doctorate there in 1998 and became a full professor in 2014. She headed the department and also directed the European Forum and the Institute of Western Cultures.

Her research covers the fiction of the Spanish Golden Age, especially the work of Miguel de Cervantes. She has also studied the Bible and Jewish literature in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges and Cervantes, and the literature of converts after the expulsion from Spain.

She founded the Association of Hispanists in Israel and led it from 2007 to 2018. She has served as president of the International Association of Hispanists and is active in the International Association of Cervantistas. She was married to writer Yonatan Fine until his death in 2015, and she lives in Jerusalem.