Yael Merlini

As an experienced educator and accomplished poet, I perfectly combine my passion for literature and languages with my commitment to inspiring and empowering students.
With a keen understanding of language and an innate ability to stimulate creativity, I cultivate an enriching learning environment where imaginations flourish and minds are kindled.

• 2014, 2016, Teaching of Biblical Hebrew, Department of Theology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen
• 2004, Teaching a seminar in lassical Arabic, Faculty of Oriental Languages, University of Urbino
• 2002-2003, researcher in Prof. Avi Hurvitz's project 'Semantics of Purity in Biblical Hebrew', Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 1996-2002, Researcher In Prof. Muraoka's project "The Lexical fields of Purity in Biblical Hebrew", Leiden University, Leiden
• 1999- 2001, Lecture, Studium Philosophicum et Theologicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem

• Lexico-semantic analysis of Hebrew-Biblical female onomastics. Biblical Review 4 (1995), 449-466.
• The morphosyntactic patterns of female proper names in biblical Hebrew. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica - Università di Firenze 6 (1995), 165-182.

• The bilingual collection "La lingua divisa - Fractured Language" is forthcoming from the publishing house Terra d'ulivi (May 2024).
• A collection of poems in Yiddish is planned for publication in 'אױפֿן שװעל'. "Afn shvel", a Yiddish magazine since 1941, in the spring/summer 2024 number.
• A series of multilingual poems (Italian-German-English-Hebrew-Yiddish) on the theme of identity is being published in the anthology for the centenary of Yehuda Amichay's birth in "Yours, Yehuda - יהודה, שלך - Dein, Yehuda", Yona-Dvir Shalem / Eran Shasha Evron (Eds.), Königshausen & Neumann 2024.
• A selection of texts was published in the magazine Atelier 2022.
• A triptych from 'Glass Paper' is in Poetry of Our Time 2022.
• Some of his poems from the collection 'Midrash a Genesis' are in 'Genesis, una scrittura in versi" a poetry anthology published by Gazebo, Elisa Biagini (ed.)2005, (25-32).

• Place of Birth: Florence
• Number of Children: 3
• Date of Birth: 06/22/68
• Nationality: Italian
• Marital Status: married