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Nurit Peled-Elhanan

1949 - Today

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Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Hebrew: נורית פלד-אלחנן; born 17 May 1949) is an Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament. She is known for her research on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, which she has criticized as being anti-Palestinian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nurit Peled-Elhanan has received more than 107,978 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the 120th most popular linguist (up from 138th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Israel (down from 248th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Linguist.

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  • 21

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  • 4.61

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  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Nurit Peled-Elhanan ranks 120 out of 214Before her are August Friedrich Pott, Jules Gilliéron, Hans Ørberg, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Morris Halle, and Hrachia Acharian. After her are Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, George Kingsley Zipf, Eugen Wüster, Arie de Jong, Aleksander Brückner, and Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Nurit Peled-Elhanan ranks 315Before her are Tarık Akan, Simon Callow, Luís Pereira, Alan White, Minette Walters, and Caroline Munro. After her are Israel Finkelstein, Jean Asselborn, Andrew Latimer, Sally Potter, Paulo César Carpegiani, and John Akii-Bua.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Nurit Peled-Elhanan ranks 250 out of 466Before her are Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938), Yossi Beilin (1948), Avi Dichter (1952), David Deutsch (1953), Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1944), and Amira Hass (1956). After her are Israel Finkelstein (1949), Ayelet Zurer (1969), Nehemiah Persoff (1919), Ari Folman (1962), Benny Morris (1948), and Yossi Benayoun (1980).

Among LINGUISTS In Israel

Among linguists born in Israel, Nurit Peled-Elhanan ranks 2Before her are Ghil'ad Zuckermann (1971). After her are Gideon Toury (1942).