David Dean Shulman
David Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949) is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and professor in the now defunct Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies. Presently he holds a chair as ''Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies'' at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1988.A published poet in Hebrew, Shulman is also active as a literary critic and cultural anthropologist. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from temple myths and temple poems to essays that cover the wide spectrum of the cultural history of South India.
Shulman is a peace activist and a founding member of the joint Israeli-Palestininian movement Ta'ayush. In 2007 he published the book "Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine" which concludes the years of his volunteering activity in the movement. Shulman is a winner of the Israel Prize for 2016. He announced that he would donate his 75,000 shekel prize to Ta'ayush, an Israeli organization that provides support to Palestinian residents in the Hebron area. Provided by Wikipedia
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Tamil : a biography / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Tamil temple myths : sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian Saiva tradition / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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The hungry god : Hindu tales of filicide and devotion / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Spring, heat, rains : a South Indian diary / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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More than real : a history of the imagination in south India / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Tamil temple myths : sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian Śaiva tradition / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Tamil : a biography / by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Meditations on authority.
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Śrīnātha : the poet who made gods and kings / by Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-
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Symbols of substance, court and state in Nāyaka period Tamilnadu / by Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-
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Untying the knot : on riddles and other enigmatic modes /
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The Sound of the kiss, or, The story that must never be told : Pin̿gaḷi Su̿rana's Kaḷa̿pu̿rṇodayamu / by Pin̿gaḷi Su̿rana
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Forgetting : an interdisciplinary conversation /
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Dream cultures : explorations in the comparative history of dreaming /
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The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign /
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Self and self-transformation in the history of religions /
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Untying the knot : on riddles and other enigmatic modes /
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Classical Telugu poetry
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The Story of Manu / by Allasāni Peddana, active 16th century
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