Gideon Toury is Professor of Poecs, Comparave Literature and
Translaon Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the M.
Bernstein Chair of Translaon Theory. He is the founder and
General Editor of Target: Internaonal Journal of Translaon
Studies and for years General Editor of the important Benjamins
Translaon Library. He has published three books, a number of
edited volumes and numerous arcles, in both English and
Hebrew, in the %elds of translaon theory and comparave
literature. His arcles have also appeared in translaon in many
other languages, and he is himself an acve translator too (with
about 30 books and many arcles to his credit). He is a member
of the editorial or advisory boards of a number of internaonal
journals. In 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by
Middlesex University, London.
Life and work
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