CURRICULUM VITAE

                                                            

Dr.  Nechama Kramer-Hellinx

54 Ingram St., Forest Hills,  NY 11375

Tel:  (718) 793-3384, Fax: (718) 793-3385, E-Mail: nkramerhellinx@nyc.rr.com

nkramerhellinx@yahoo.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

*  Gymnasia Ivrit High School, Jerusalem, Israel, 1954-1958.

*  Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1971-1973.   B.A.  in Spanish, Feb.1973. Departmental honors.   Graduated with 4.0 average.

*  Queens College Graduate School and The Graduate Center of CUNY, 1973-1977. M.A in Spanish  Literature, Feb.  1978.

*  Graduate Center of City University of New York, New York, 1977-1988.  Ph.D. in  Spanish

Literature, Feb.  1988.

 

Additional Education

 

*  CUNY, 28 credits in Special Education, and 8 in Psychology, 1989-1995.

*  Alliance Française, Paris, France:  Diplôme Supérieur d'Études Française Modernes, 1996.

*  Alliance Française, Paris, France.  Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française, 1997.

 

EXPERIENCE IN COLLEGE TEACHING

 

*  York College, CUNY, Jamaica, Queens, New York.  September 1989 to 1995; February 2000-present.  Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor: Department of Modern Languages.

*  The College of Staten Island, New York, Sept. 1988 to June 1989.

Position:  Adjunct Assistant Professor: Department of Modern Languages.

*  Queens College, Flushing, New York, Sept. 1973-76, and Sept. 1977 to June 1978.  Position:  Adjunct Lecturer: Department of Romance Languages.

           

EXPERIENCE IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION

 

I.S.238Q, 88-15 182nd St., Hollis NY 11423.  Position:  Spanish bilingual teacher, 1978-2005. 

Awarded State of New York, Bilingual Teacher of the Year Award, June 1988. 

 

Field of Specialization:  Golden Age, Spain.

Title of Dissertation:  El siglo pitagórico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadaña  de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600‑1663), CUNY, 1988.

 

Languages:  Fluent in Hebrew, Spanish, French and English. Not fluent in Portuguese.

 

Countries of Residence:  Israel, Ecuador, Brazil, France and USA.                  

 

*  Member of the executive committee of the MLA Discussion Group on Sephardic Stu-dies.

*  Member  of  AATSP Sephardic Studies, Chairing July 2001, San Francisco; July 2002 , Rio de Janeiro August 2003; Chicago, August 2004.

*Awarded the 2007 Alumni Achievement Award, by the Graduate Center City University of New York

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Antonio Enríquez Gómez:  Literatura y Sociedad en El siglo pitagórico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadaña.  New York:  Peter Lang, 1993.

 

“Antonio Enríquez Gómez y la Inquisición: Vida y literatura.”  Peamim, 46-7 (Spring 1991), 196-221 (the article is in Hebrew).

 

“Antonio Enríquez Gómez: Lágrimas e poesía.”   Nos (Pontevedra, Galicia, 1989), 95-104.

 

“Triumpho lusitano: Antonio Enríquez Gómez, partidario da liberdade e da justiça.”   Nos (Pontevedra, Galicia: 1991), 96-101.

 

“Em memoria de minha mae Shoshana (Rosa) Levy Ben Mashiach falecida em Israel.” Nos (Pontevedra, Galicia: 1994), 217-18. (Poem).

 

"Aspectos picarescos en El siglo pitagórico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadaña del judaizante español Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663)."   Actes del Simposi Internacional Sobre Cultura Sefardita.  Ed.  Josep Ribera.  Barcelona: Facultat de Filologia, 1993.

 

"El aspecto de la Inquisición en la obra de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663)."   The Culture of Spanish Jewry:  Proceeding of the First International Congress.  Ed.  Aviva Doron.  Tel-Aviv, Israel:  Levinsky College of Education Publishing House, 1994.

 

"La prudente Abigaíl y A lo que obliga el honor:  Honor, prudencia, amor, celos y muerte.  Dos comedias de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663)."   Los judaizantes en Europa y la literatura castellana del Siglo de Oro.  Ed.  Fernando Díaz Esteban.  Madrid:  Letrúmero, 1994.

 

“Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663): Desafío de la Inquisi­ción.”   Xudeus E Conversos Na  Historia:  Actas do Congreso Internacional.  Ed.  Carlos Barros.  Santiago de Compostela:  La Editorial de la Historia, 1994.

 

“Dedicatoria in Memoriam de Guerra Da Cal da Versâo Hebraica do 'Romance al Divín Mártir Judá Creyente' de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”  Congresso Internacional de Lingua, Cultura e Literaturas Lusófonas (Homenagem ao Professor Ernesto Guerra Da Cal). Vol. VII-IX.  (Pontevedra, Galicia: 1991-1994), 261-280.

 

“Despedida a Ernesto Guerra Da Cal.”  Congresso Internacional de Lingua, Cultura e Literaturas Lusófonas (Homenagem ao Professor Ernesto Guerra Da Cal). Vol. VII-IX.  (Pontevedra, Galicia: 1991-1994), 423 (poem).

 

“La Literatura como espejo de la Historia: Los históricos malsines inquisitoria­les, en la literatura de A. Enríquez Gómez.”  Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez  . Tome XXX-2 (Madrid 1994), 139-150.

 

"Noticia do original portugués do ‘Tratado de verdad da lei de Moisés’, de Saul Levy Morteira do século XVII:  un texto morfológico Galégo-Portugués ou de Portugués arcaico."  Fontenla, José Luis and Nechama Kramer-Hellinx.  Nos (Pontevedra, Galicia, 1995), 275-284.

 

"La figura del malsín en El Siglo pitagórico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadaña de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663)."   (The article is in Hebrew).  Hispano-Jewish Civilization after 1492.  Edts. Abitbol, Michel, Yom-Tov Assis and Galit Hasan-Rokem.  Jerusalem:  Misgav Yerushalayim, 1997.

 

"Honor y desafío en La soberbia de Nimrod."   Cuenca: Antonio  Enríquez Gómez.  Eds. Carlos de la Rica y Antonio Lázaro Cebrían.  Cuenca, Spain:  Diputación de Cuenca (Monográfico 44), 1999.

 

"Resonancias bíblicas en el Sansón Nazareno."   Cuenca: Antonio  Enríquez Gómez.  Eds. Carlos de la Rica y Antonio Lázaro Cebrían.  Cuenca, Spain:  Diputación de Cuenca (Monográfico 44), 1999.

 

"Saudades da Patria"   Nos (Pontevedra, Galicia: 1996-1998), 101-104. (Poem, in Hebrew and Portuguese versions).

 

“Polemical Disputation and Jewish Theology in the Poetry of the Spanish Converso Ferrant Sanchez de Talavera.”  The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (Spring 2004- Vol. VI), 21-36.

 

“Israel, My Homeland.” The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (Spring 2004- Vol. VI),151-152 (a poem).

 

“Judaic Motifs and Religious inclinations in Romance al Divín Mártir, Judá Creyente by Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).” In Sephardic Identity: Essays on a Vanishing Culture. Ed. George K. Zucker. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2005.

 

“Envoy of the Sephardim: Rabbi Menachem Shmuel Halevy: Zionist, Peacemaker, Poet, 1884-1940.” International Sephardic Journal (Spring 2005/ 5765 Vol. 2 No. 1), 213-226.

 

“The Genealogy of Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy of Hamadan (Iran)

[Part I]”. Etsi: Revue de Généalogie et d´Histoire Séfarades № 30 (Septembre 2005, Volume 8), 9-18.

 

“The Edicts of the Inquisition As Reflected in the Literary Work of the Spanish Converso Antonio Enriquez Gomez (1600-1663).” The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (spring 2005-Vol. VII), Pp. 19-33.

 

“The Mezuza” The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (Spring 2005- Vol. VII), 101 (a poem).

 

“El tema del honor y de la nobleza en la obra literaria de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).” Actas de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Vol. II  (Newark, Delware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004),  327-333.

 

“Los ‘Edictos de Fe’ y los ‘Edictos de Gracia’ en Ynquisición de Luzifer y visita de todos los diablos del converso español Antonio Enríquez Gómez”.  Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanistas y Literatura: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao (Vols 3-4, 2003-2004), 30-41.

 

“Life and Contribution for the Cause of Zion of Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy of Hamadan (Iran), [Part II]”.  Etsi: Revue de Généalogie et d´Histoire Séfarades № 32 (March 2006, Volume 9), 3-9.

 

“Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy’s Poetry, [Part III] “.  Etsi: Revue de Généalogie et d´Histoire Séfarades № 34 (Septembre 2006, Volume 9,), 6-9.

 

“From Hamadan, Iran to Zion: From Bondage to Freedom, The Life Journey of the Zionist Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy (1884-1940)”. The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (spring 2006, Volume VIII), 58-80.

 

“Merciful God, WHY? Intimate Conversation with the Creator, In the After Mass of Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Fires, Inundations of Fall 2005”. The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies (spring 2006, Volume VIII), 30-31(a poem).

 

 

CONVENTIONS

 

International Congress:  The Heritage of the Jews of Spain, Levinsky Institute, Tel-Aviv, Israel.  July, 1991.  “The Inquisition and Jewish Consciousness in the Works of Antonio Enríquez Gómez.”

 

I Congresso Internacional de Literaturas Lusófonas:  Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.  “Antonio Enríquez Gómez, partidario da liberdade e da justiça.” September, 1991.

 

Congreso Internacional:  Xudeus e Conversos na Historia.  Ribadavia, Galicia, October, 1991.  “Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663):  Desafío de la Inquisi­ción.”

 

Misgav Yerushalyim, Internatio­nal Congress of Hispanic-Jewish Civilization after 1492, June 1992, Jerusalem, Israel.   “La figura del malsín en la obra de Antonio Enríquez Gómez.”

 

Simposio internacional sobre cultura sefardí.  Universitat de Barcelona, 9-11 de  noviembre de 1992.  “Los aspectos picarescos en El siglo pitagórico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadaña, del judaizante Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

Congreso internacional sobre Literatura castellana del Siglo de Oro de los Judìos fuera de España , Madrid, December 1992.  “El tema de la honra en el teatro de Antonio Enríquez Gómez.”

 

Congreso Internacional:  A Historia A Debate.  Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 Julio, 1993.  Comunicación:  “La Literatura como espejo de la Historia: Los históricos malsines inquisitoria­les, en la literatura de A. Enríquez Gómez.”

 

The Jews of Sepharad:  1300 Years of Crisis:  Identity and Assimilation.  University Of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.  October 10-12, 1993.  “Judaic motifs and Religious Inclinations in Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Romance al Divín Mártir” (accepted for publication in The Jews of Sepharad, forthcoming).

Association for Jewish Studies, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference.  Boston, Massachusetts, December 12-14, 1993.  “The Edicts of Faith and the Edicts of Grace as reflected in the Literary Work of the Spanish Converso, Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

MLA Convention.  Toronto, Canada.  27-30 December, 1993.  “Resonancias bíblicas y judías en el Sansón Nazareno del converso español, Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

Association for Jewish Studies, Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference.  Boston, Massachusetts, December 18-20, 1994.  “Jewish Polemical Themes in 'El Romance al Divín Mártir Judá Creyente' by the Spanish Converso, Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

MLA Convention.  San Diego, California.  27-30 December, 1994.  “Authoritarian women in the work of the Spanish Converso dramatist, Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

MLA Convention, Chicago.  27-30 December, 1995.     “Honor and Defiance in La Soberbia de Nimbrod, 1635, by Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

MLA convention, San Francisco.  27-30 December, 1998.  “The Edicts of Grace and the Edicts of Faith as reflected in the literary work of the Spanish converso Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).“

 

Asociación Hispánica de Humanistas, II Congreso Internacional, Sevilla, July 2000, ¨Prudencia y habilidad, rasgos principales de la mujer en la obra literaria de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

MLA convention in Washington DC, December 2000, chairing the Sephardic Studies session.

 

AATSP convention, San Francisco, July 2001, Chairperson and presenter, “The Spanish Inquisition in El ultimo azul, by Carmen Riera, 1996.”

 

Asociación Internacional de hispanistas, XIV Congreso, July 2001, New York, “El tema del honor en la obra de Antonio Enríquez Gómez .”

 

AATSP, July 2002, Rio de Janeiro, chairperson and presenter, “Motivos bíblicos del Viejo Testamento en la obra de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663).”

 

AATSP, July 2003, Chicago, chairperson Sephardic Studies Session.

 

Bar Ilan University: Faculty for Jewish Studies: Iranian Jewry: History, Society and Cultural Achievements. June 15-16, 2005.  “Love of Zion in the Poetry of Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy (1884-1940)”. (In Hebrew).

 

MLA, December 2006, Philadelphia, Sephardic Studies session, presenting

“Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy.”