Public lifeשולמית אליצור

Shulamit Elizur

Shulamit Elizur is an Israeli scholar of ancient and medieval piyyut, Hebrew liturgical poetry, who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1955Research on ancient piyyutEditing Eleazar b. Qallir's poetryThe book A Poem for Every Parashah

Born: 6 April 1955, Jerusalem
Occupation: scholar of Piyyut, Hebraist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shulamit Elizur was born in 1955 in Jerusalem

Shulamit Elizur was born in Jerusalem on April 6, 1955, the eldest daughter of Leah Hovav, a literature scholar and educator, and Meir Hovav, a writer and editor. She attended the Horev schools and did national service as a Bnei Akiva youth counselor in Kiryat Tivon.

She earned a bachelor's degree in Hebrew language and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She went straight on to doctoral studies under Ezra Fleischer. Her dissertation showed that the poet Eleazar b. Qilar was a different person from Eleazar b. Qallir.

Elizur has taught at the Hebrew University for many years and has published many books and articles on piyyut. Much of her work is devoted to editing the poetry of Eleazar b. Qallir. She heads the Fleischer Institute for the Study of Hebrew Poetry and once chaired the Mekize Nirdamim society.

She joined the Academy of the Hebrew Language in 2005 and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2022. She is married to Dr. Binyamin Elizur, and the couple has 4 children.