אוניברסיטת תל אביב /הפקולטה למדעי הרוח בית הספר למדעי התרבות ע"ש שירלי ולזלי פורטר Tel Aviv University / Faculty of Humanities The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies
Doctoral Dissertations Approved 1990-
1990 2 1991 2 1992 2 1993 2 1994 3	1995 3 1996 3 1997 4 1998 4 1999 5	2000 5 2001 6 2002 6 2003 7 2004 8		2005 9 2006 10		List in Hebrew
	Student’s Name		Year		Subject of Thesis		Supervisor/s
1990
1.	Unger Henry		1990		Models of Dehumanization in Modern Fiction		Prof. Menakhem Perry
2.	Tabak Nili		1990		Medical and Ethical Dilemmas in Human Experimentation		Prof. André de Vries, Prof. Gershon Weiler, Prof. G. Algom
1991
3.	Secker Zohar		1991		Static Elements in the Poetic Text, Distinctive Poetic and Ideological Principles Latent in Secondary Modeling of Words’ Meaning in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and his Contemporaries		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
1992
	Keshet Shulamit		1992		The Early Kibbutz Novel Ideological Literature: Readers’ Writers, Texts		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
	Yonay Haviva		1992		Science Fiction and the Canonisation of a Popular Genre		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
1993
	Buchman Alexander		1993		Mereological Semantics		Prof. Stavi
	Horowitz Amir		1993		Content: The Mind’s Sensitivity to the World		Prof. Marcelo Dascal
	Sheffy Rakefet		1993		Repertoire Formation in the Canonization of Late 18^th Century German Novel		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
	Shraybom-Shivtiel Shlomit		1993		The Arabic Language Academy in Egypt – Acts and Trends 1928–1932		Prof. Gideon Goldenberg & Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Zanger-Shpatz Anat		1993		Cinematic Version–Originality as Repetition		Dr. Brian McHale
1994
	Ben Ari Nitza		1994		The Ninetieth Century German Jewish Historical Novel for Youth and the Emergence of a New National Literature		Prof. Zohar Shavit
	Matar Anat		1994		Michael Dummett’s World View		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. Michael Dummett
1995
	Ben-Yami Hanoch		1995		The Nature of Intentionality and Its Place in Nature		Prof. Ruth Manor
	Graves David .C.		1995		Constituting Art: The institutional Theory of Art		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. George Dickie
	Heller Ergá		1995		The Writer’s Self and the Other self: Autobiographic Facts and Intertextual Relations in Autobiographic Literature of the Twentieth Century		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
	Ikeda Jun		1995		A Linguistic Analysis of the Akkadian Texts from Emar: Administrative Texts		Prof. Anson F. Rainey & Prof. Shlomo Izre’el
	Katzenberger Irit		1995		Cognitive, Linguistic, and Developmental Factors in the Narration of Picture Series		Prof. Ruth Berman
	Rozenbaum Gabriel M.		1995		The Language of Dialogue in Modern Egyptian Drama		Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Senderowitz Yaron		1995		Kant’s Copernican Revolution		Prof. Marcelo Dascal
	Shidlo Ana		1995		Samuel Beckett’s Tragic Vision: Elements of Theory and Practice		Prof. Zfira Porat
	Zarhy-Levo Yael		1995		The Formation Process of the Theatre of the Absurd: Pinter, Orton, Stoppard		Prof. Menakhem Perry &Dr. Brian McHale
1996
	Gomel Ilana		1996		Beyond the Looking Glass: The Fantastic and the poetics of culture		Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
	Lavie Nathan		1996		The Absolute Sovereignty: Artificial Entity in Hobbe’s System		Prof. Gershon Weiler & Dr. Anat Biletzki
	Margia Bshara		1996		Aspects Concerning Women in “Classical “ Arabic Literature: Approaches to Women as a Key to the Understanding of Problems in Arabic Prose in the Middle Ages and till the 18^th Century		Prof. Joseph Sadan
	Ravid Shlomo		1996		The Relations Between Norms and Values:The Kibbutz’s Process of Change		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. Eliezer Ben-Raphael
	Shilo Lea		1996		Organ Transplants and Individual Rights		Prof. Asa Kasher
	Wertheimer Ada		1996		Selected Problems in Syriac Syntax: Fundamentals of Sentence Structure		Prof. Shlomo Raz
1997
	Armon-Lotem Sharon		1997		The Minimalist Child Parameters and Functional Heads in the Acquisition of Hebrew		Prof. Alexander Grosu & Dr. Julia Horvath
	Hager Tamar		1997		Writing the Bomb: The Crossover of Literature, Politics and Science in Fictional Scenarios of Nuclear War		Prof. Brian McHale
	Lampert Chen		1997		The Philosophers of the Mystical		Prof. Shlomo Biderman
	Sharon-Zisser Shirley		1997		Disfigured Figure: The symbolic Economy of Simile		Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
	Solomon Joshua		1997		The Pantheism of Cusanus		Prof. J. Ross & Prof. M. Dubois
1998
	Ludlam Ivor		1998		Antipater of Tarsus: A Critical Edition, with Commentary on the Testimonia for his Life, Writings and Logic		Prof. John Glucker
	Maoz Nitza		1998		The Emergence of a System of Arabic Children’s Literature in the Cultural Sphere of Palestine 1826–1918: The Socio-Cultural Shaping of its Readership		Prof. Zohar Shavit & Prof. Israel Gershoni
	Shabat Bethlehem Louise		1998		Literary Historiographic Discourse Under Apartheid: 1976–1985		Prof. Hannan Hever
1999
	Bar’am Ilana		1999		Movement, metaphor and desire in the fiction of Henry James		Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
	Ben-Noon Chemi		1999		Civic Responsibility		Prof. Joseph Agassi & Prof. Gideon Doron
	Elyashiv Jacob		1999		Priorities in the Duty of Rescuing Life: An Examination of Halachic Ethics in the Light Modern Applied Ethics		Prof. Jacob J. Ross
	Ezra Ovadia		1999		The Withdrawal of Rights		Prof. Jacob Joshua Ross
	Josefsberg Naomi		1999		Liberal Health Care		Prof. Yael Tamir
	Kahan Michele		1999		La Folie dans le roman libertin du XVIIIième sicèle		Dr. Monique Jutrin & Prof. M. René Démoris
	Lerner Berel Dov		1999		Interpretive Charity, Instrumental Pluralism, and Peter Winch’s Philosophy of Social Science		Prof. Jacob Joshua Ross
	Rudnick Abraham		1999		Knowledge and Psychosis: A Study in Clinical Epistemology		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. Nathaniel Laor
2000
	Amit-Kochavi Hannah		2000		Translations of Arabic Literature into Hebrew: Their Historical and Cultural Background and Their Reception by the Target Culture		Prof. Gideon Toury
	Bar-Am Nimrod		2000		The Philosophical Background to the Problem of Translation		Prof. Joseph Agassi
	Benporath Raday Sigal		2000		Castles in the Sky: Fictions and Truth in Political Theory		Prof. Yael Tamir
	Bernat Adam		2000		The problem of the suffix re – in Latin Verbs		Prof. Alexander Grosu
	Carmi Naam		2000		Restrictions on Immigration: immigration Policy in the Liberal Theory of Justice		Prof. Asa Kasher
	Even-Zohar Basamt		2000		The Construction of Children’s Literature within the Creation of Hebrew Culture in Eretz-Israel		Prof. Zohar Shavit
	Frogel Shai		2000		The Rhetoric of Philosophy		Dr. Ran Sigad
	Kogman Tal		2000		The Creation of Image of Knowledge in Texts for Children and Young Adults Published During the Haskalah Period		Prof. Zohar Shavit
	Meilijson Sara		2000		The Language of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients: Aspects of the Theory of Core and Central Pragmatics		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. Avner Elizur
	Naor Dorothy		2000		Assumptions about Formal Uses of Discourse: Current vs Traditional		Prof. Jerome Mendel
	Zamir Tzachi		2000		Ways of Saying: An Inquiry into Types of Relationships between Philosophy and Literature		Prof. Marcelo Dascal
	Zhang Ping		2000		Bridging Between the Actual and the Ideal in Early Rabbinical and Confucian Literature		Prof. Yoav Ariel
2001
	Kittani Yasin		2001		Structure and Style in the Fiction of Eduar Al-Kharat		Dr. Sulaiman Jubran
	Kayyal Mahmud		2001		Translational Norms in the Translations of Modern Hebrew Literature into Arabic Between 1948 - 1990		Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Perlson Inbal (the late)		2001		The Musical Institutions of the Emigrants From the Islamic Countries During the First Years of the State of Israel		Prof. Hannan Hever
	Shiloh Ilana		2001		On the Road to Nowhere: The Doomed Quest in the Poetics of Paul Auster		Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
2002
	Barouch Yoram		2002		The Mythic as Argumentative Pathos in World War I Literature in France		Prof. Ruth Amossy
	Ben-David Avivit		2002		Language Acquisition and Phonological Theory: Universal and Variable Processes Across Children and Across Language		Prof. Ruth Berman
	Ben-Refael Miriam		2002		Contacts de Langues Le francais Parle des Francophones israeliens		Prof. George-Elia Sarfati
	Charbit Denis		2002		Construire une identité démocratique: Discours et Pratiques du Mouvement Le Sillon (1899 – 1910)		Prof. David Mendelson & Dr. Avner Ben-Amos
	Getreuer Irit		2002		New Fictional Models in the Recent Fiction of Najib Mahfuz (The 1970s and the 19802)		Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Haruvi Dina		2002		L’Emergence d’une avant-garde féministe et sa consécration au Québec: la AJ/NBJ de 1975 a 1985		Prof. Ruth Amossy
	Peleg Orna		2002		Linguistic and Contextual Mechanisms in On-Line Language Comprehension		Prof. Rachel Giora
	Segal Michal		2002		Form-Function Relations in the Expression of Evaluation in Personal Experience Narratives across Adolescence		Prof. Ruth Berman
	Uziel-Karl Sigal		2002		A Multidimensional Perspective on the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure		Prof. Ruth Berman
2003
	Adam Galit		2003		From Variable to Optimal Grammar: Evidence From Language Acquisition and Language Change		Dr. Outi Bat-El
	Benhabib Doli		2003		Sammy Michael Problems of Constructing Mizrahi Sujectivity		Prof. Rivka Feldhay & Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Biberman Efrat		2003		On Narrativity in the Visual Field		Prof. Ruth Ronen
	Danon Gabi		2003		Case and formal definiteness the licensing of definite and indefinite noun phrases in Hebrew		Prof. Tanya Reinhart
	Darr Yael		2003		The Transition from the “Story of the Yeshuv” into the “Story of the State” in Hebrew Children’s Literature 1939–1948		Prof. Zohar Shavit
	Dotan Eyal		2003		Interpellation as a Reading Theory		Prof. Hannan Hever
	Farhi-Adler Silvia		2003		L’ellipse des régimes des prépositions simples st de locutions prépositives en français contemporain		Prof. Lucien Kupferman
	Furman Varda		2003		Le néo-babouvisme belge (1830-1839): une expérience révolutionnaire aux prises avec sa rhétorique		Prof. Marcelo Dascal & Prof. Pierre Rosanvallon
	Hakim Avraham		2003		Umar b. al-Khaţţáb: Some Aspects of his Image as Ideal Leader in Early Islamic Traditions		Prof. Uri Rubin
	Huri Yair		2003		Ars-Poetica and Metapoetic Themes in Modern Arabic Poetry		Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Preminger Aner		2003		Cinematic Intertextuality and the Films of François Truffaut		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat & Prof. Michal Freedman
	Shnizer, Aliza		2003		The Qurān: Aspects of its Sacredness According to Early Islamic Tradition		Prof. Uri Rubin
	Yanoshevsky Galia		2003		Discours du Nouveau Roman: Essais, Entretiens, Débats Le cas de Nathalie Sarraute et d’Alain Robbe-Grillet		Prof. Ruth Amossy & Prof. George-Elia Sarfati
2004
	Anabsi Ghalib		2004		Aspects of the Arabic Genre Merits of the Holy Land		Prof. Joseph Sadan & Prof. Michael Winter
	Ben-Ari Shoshana		2004		Abraham’s Character in the Muslim Tradition. Cultural and Literary Aspects in the Composition “Lataif Qisas al-Anbiyaa”		Prof. Joseph Sadan & Prof. Avigdor Shinan
	Botwinik-Rotem Irena		2004		The Category P Features, Projections, Interpretation		Prof. Julia Horvath & Dr. Tal Siloni
	Chudnovsky Liza		2004		The Kit-Kat Texts-Hypertextual Characteristics and Interactive Aspects in Postmodernist Meta-Fictions		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
	HaCohen Ran		2004		The Encounter of Wissenschaft des Judentums in Germany with Nineteenth Century Biblical Criticism		Prof. Zohar Shavit & Prof. Mendes Flohr
	Kassem Nabih		2004		The Novels of Abd al-Rahman Munif: A Literary Study		Prof. Sasson Somekh
	Livnat Hanna		2004		In Time of Crisis: The Attempt to Shape the Identity of Jewish Children During the Third Reich Case Study: Children and Youth Literature of the Main Stream of German Jewry 1933–1938		Prof. Zohar Shavit
	Sadka Ronen Salman		2004		Integration at the Interface of the Modules and the Central System		Prof. Asa Kasher & Prof. Daniel Algom
	Schleifer Michal		2004		Development of Written Text Production: Linguistic and Socio-cultural Perspectives		Prof. Ruth Berman & Dr. Gadi Ben-Ezer
	Soker-Schwager Hanna		2004		Between Text and Context: Yaakov Shabtai in Israeli Culture		Prof. Hannan Hever
2005
	Asnes Maria		2005		Traitement unifié des propriétés référentielles des constituants nominaux et verbaux		Prof. Laurence Danlos & Prof. Lucien Kupferman
	Ben-Horin Michal		2005		“1945, another Story, another Musical Piece”: Music and Memory in German Literature after the War		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
	Daliot-Bul Michal		2005		Licensed to Play: Play and Playfulness in Japanese Culture		Prof. Jacob Raz
	Kusher Elena		2005		La possessivation en français La représentation des groupes en de par la catégorie du déterminant		Prof. Lucien Kupferman
	Munk Yael		2005		Borderline Cinema: Space and Identity in Israeli Cinema of the Nineties		Dr. Orly Lubin & Prof. Judd Ne’eman
	Sandbank Ana		2005		Writing Narrative Text: A Developmental and Cross-Linguistic Study		Prof. Ruth Berman & Prof. Liliana Tolchinsky-Landsman
	Trugman Helen		2005		Syntax of Russian DPs and DP-internal Agreement Phenomena		Prof. Alexander Grosu
	Stahl Neta		2005		‘Other and Indeed Banned and yet, One of My Brothers’: Jesus as Other and Brother in the Hebrew Literature of the 20^th Century		Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat
	Apelroit Tir Arza		2005		Translation in Image and Likeness- Subjective-Objective in the Language of the Translation: Linguistic-Cultural -Cognitive Analysis of Devorah Baron’s Translation of ‘Madam Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert		Prof. Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot & Prof. Gideon Toury
2006
	Garnai Amy		2006		Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald: Three Radical Writers of the 1790’s		Dr. Robert Griffin
	Gavriely-Nuri Dalia		2006		“Normal War”: The Cultural Dimension of Strategic Surprise and Yom Kippur War. The Representation of War in Israeli Culture 1967 - 1973		Dr. Orly Lubin
	Jeries Naim Khoury		2005		Popular (Literary) Sources in Modern Arabic Poetry		Dr. Sulaiman Jubran
	Narunsky-Laden Sonja		2006		Middle-Class Matters: Magazine Representations of South Africa’s New Black Bourgeoisie, 1987 - 2004		Prof. Gideon Toury
	Sevi Aldo		2006		Exhaustivity. A Semantic Account of Quantity Implicatures		Prof. Fred Landman
	Shelach Yochy		2006		The Fundamental Principle of David Grossman and Meir Shalev’s Poetic Worlds		Prof. Menakhem Perry
	Stambler Daniel		2006		Blades of Grass in Sidewalk Cracks: A Narrative Study of Jewish Buddhist Teachers		Prof. Jacob Raz
	Tubul-Lavy Gila		2006		The Phonology of Hebrew Speaking Dyspraxic Children		Dr. Outi Bat- El