Native name Dalit Lahav Role Author Name Dalit Lahav-Durst | Nationality Israeli, French Pen name Dalit L. Durst | |
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Occupation Author, editor, executive, curator Genre Translations, art history | ||
Dalit lahav durst em leitura la os de fam lia de clarice lispector no ccb tel aviv
Dalit L. Durst (born 1956 as Dalit Lahav), is an author, translator, curator and art historian of both Israeli and French nationality. She is currently chief curator at the M.T. Abraham Foundation and head of the Cultural Exchange and Academic Department at the Hermitage Foundation Israel. Fluent in multiple languages, she has co-authored and translated over 15 books.
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- Dalit lahav durst em leitura la os de fam lia de clarice lispector no ccb tel aviv
- Early years
- Writing
- Curation symposiums
- Recent years
- Publishing history
- References
Early years
Dalit Lahav-Durst (originally named Dalit Lahav) was born in 1956, and is of both Israeli and French nationality. She grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she studied comparative literature at the USP. She later moved to Paris, France, where she focused on art history, criticism, and conservation at New Sorbonne University. Her languages include Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Writing
She has worked as an art critic and editor for a number of Hebrew-language newspapers, including Ma'ariv Daily, and she has translated a number of significant books into Hebrew, including "The Immortal" by Jorge Luis Borges, O Aleph by Paulo Coelho, and Sombras em Telavive by Manuel Pope.
Curation, symposiums
Many of her curated exhibits and organized symposiums have involved World War II. In 1996, she organized the "European Meeting of Holocaust Archival Centers" (at UNESCO headquarters in Paris), with the participation of historians, archive keepers and researchers from 25 countries. She was curator and artistic events organizer at the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr (Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu) and the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center in Paris. While at the center she worked with artists such as sculptor Shlomo Selinger, and the photographers Ruth Goodwin and William Betsch, among others.
Recent years
Since 2005 Durst has worked as a consultant and art curator for several private collectors, and was the representative of the Tel-Aviv Foundation in France She also acts a consultant for the CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation. As of 2014 she is Head of the Cultural Exchange and Academic Department at the Hermitage Foundation Israel.
Since June 2008 she has been the chief curator at the M.T. Abraham Foundation. While representing the foundation, she coordinated and supervised the following exhibitions: The Sculpture of Edgar Degas at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, (2010), The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas at the Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, (2010), The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas at the National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2010), The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas at the Varna Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria, (2010), The Sculpture of Edgar Degas at The Evagoras Lanitis Center, Limassol, Cyprus, (2011-2012), Edgar Degas Complete Sculpture at Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia (2012). In 2013 Durst co-curated the Degas in Motion exhibit at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and also co-authored sections of the illustrated catalog published by Petronius.
Publishing history
Among her literary translations into Hebrew are: