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- Title
Margarita Pazi (1920-1997).
- Authors
Gelber, Mark H.
- Abstract
This article profiles Margarita Pazi, a scholar who died on February 16, 1907, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Margarita came late to literary scholarship and to academic life also. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg, with a dissertation on Max Bord, at the age of fifty years. She was born in 1920 in Altstadt, Czechoslovakia. She immigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939. In 1945, Pazi arrived in Tel Aviv and she lived there for more than fifty years. Pazi's second husband, Moshe Pazi, was a Maskil, an Enlightened Jew. He radiated keen intelligence, morality, and humane concern. Moshe and Margarita were very dedicated to each other. Margarita studied Literature and German in London, England. For many years, she worked as a language teacher at the University of Tel Aviv in the Division of Foreign Languages. She received many visiting appointments and guest lectureships in different countries. Margarita was devoted to the general topic of Jewish writers in the German language. She also published occasionally on non-Jewish writers or related topics.
- Subjects
TEL Aviv (Israel); ISRAEL; PAZI, Margarita; SCHOLARS; LANGUAGE teachers; LITERATURE; INTELLECTUALS; ACADEMIC dissertations; PAZI, Moshe
- Publication
Modern Austrian Literature, 1998, Vol 31, Issue 1, p170
- ISSN
0026-7503
- Publication type
Obituary