Tamar Sovran

Tamar Sovran (Hebrew: תמר סוברן; born 1948 in Rishon LeZion) is an Israeli linguist and Hebrew Culture Studies researcher in the Language Department of Tel Aviv University.

Sovran was born in Rishon leZion, the second daughter of Lea and Gershon Mann (Minkow), sister of Nira and Na'ama.

D. in Philosophy of Language from the same university, then undertook postdoctoral studies in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.She lived with her family in the Erez kibbutz between 1972 and 1994.

Sovran taught Hebrew language, literature and philosophy at Sha'ar Hanegev high school and Sapir College, then taught philosophy and linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

She later taught modern Hebrew in the Amirim honors program for outstanding students at the Hebrew University, and in the Culture and Interpretation Doctoral Studies program at Bar-Ilan University.