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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Spring, heat, rains : a South Indian diary 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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The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry 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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Dark hope : working for peace in Israel and Palestine by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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God Inside Out : Siva's Game of Dice. by Handelman, Don
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The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign
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The demon's daughter : a love story from South India by Piṅgaḷi Sūrana
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Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and dissent in India
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