Rachel Albeck-Gidron

Rachel Albeck-Gidron (Hebrew: רחל אלבק-גדרון) is a literature scholar and associate Professor in the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

[7] Her Dissertation titled: “Leibniz's Theory of the Monads as a poetic model for modern literature in the twentieth century.” [8] 2006–2007, she was an associate visiting professor at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University.

[10] In 2017, she won the S. Yizhar Award for her Monography: “Exploring the Third Option: A Critical Study of Yoel Hoffmann's Works,” published by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Publications in 2016.

[11] In 2019/20, she won a scholarship from the Israel Science Foundation for the Critical edition of Uri Zvi Greenberg's 'Masekhet Ha-Matkonet Ve-Ha-Dmut': a Study of the Work's Genesis Through Earlier Manuscript Drafts and Printing.

Literature critic Hanna Hertzig wrote in an article review in Haaretz: "The author does almost the impossible by academically explaining Hoffman's compilation… she succeeds in writing "Hoffmanese" without neglecting the rationality and analytic indoctrination obliged by the scientific discipline.

She also uses vast knowledge from various philosophy, literature, and cultural methods that characterize "Hoffmann's homeland" in illuminating contexts.” [18] Sapir Prize winner Reuven Namdar wrote in an article in Moznaim journal that harmony between content and description is a romantic longing since the dawn of literature and aesthetic, seldom found, and rise into its apotheosis in Yoel Hoffmann’s writings… such equivalent compatibility coexist in Albeck-Gidron’s book.” [19] It was one of the ten best Hebrew books in 2016 by Israel Hayom.

The author advocates reckoning the writer as a shaman by rendering their reader's attentive observation, which progeny genuine comprehension, and unfolding the concealed reality in the shredded chaotic world to repair it.

B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, Simon Halkin, Orly Castel-Bloom, Ronit Matalon, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ana Herman, Micha Josef Berdyczewski, and Uri Nissan Gnessin.