Biography
Shemoelof was born and raised in Haifa, Israel. He now lives in Tel Aviv and teaches at Kedma High School in Jerusalem. He also teaches creative writing at Ron Vardi Center for Gifted Children, and is a lecturer of Israeli culture at Minshar College in Tel Aviv. Shemoelof received his BA from the Department of Theater at Tel Aviv University and an MA in History from the University of Haifa. His MA thesis was entitled, "The cultural and mythical meanings of the appearance of the character of Malcolm X in Spike Lee movie (1992)". For this work, he received the Dean’s Prize of Excellence.
He is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His dissertation topic is “A Monograph of Yakov Rabinovitch as a Cultural Critic (1910-1948)”. He is a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, a Jerusalem-based think tank that addressing issues of identity and class. Shemoelof participated in a workshop for promising PhD students, and also in Kedmata forum at the Ben Zvi Institute in Jerusalem.
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