Dr. Chava Korzakova

Mail: P.O.B. 798, Kirjat-Arba, 90100; tel. 972-2-9962994 (not in Shabbat). 
E-Mail: Chava.Korzakova@biu.ac.il 
Birth Date and Place: 31.01.1969, Leningrad, Russia. 
Repatriation Date: 23.05.1991. 
Family situation: divorced, 3 children. 

Personal Story 
In 988 CE the prince of Kiev, Vladimir the Red Sun (Krasnoje Solnyshko), has chosen Christianity instead of Judaism. Therefore, in 1969, I was born into a Russian family, in Leningrad, USSR. I graduated in Classical studies at the Leningrad State University, and studied poetry in the studio of the known Leningrad poet Viacheslav Leikin. At the same time, I studied, and later taught, Hebrew and Jewish tradition in the Open Jewish University of Leningrad. I converted to Judaism in 1990 
and in 1991 I completed my MA studies and repatriated to Israel. Five months later my first son, Jakov Josef, was born in Jerusalem. My twins Avraham Avihai and Amalia Sara were born in 2003, also in Jerusalem. Now Jakov Josef is serving in the IDF. 

Education: M.A. in Classics from Leningrad State University, 1991 (graduation paper "On Philo's De gigantibus"; diploma cum laude); Ph.D. Dissertation (Bar Ilan University, 2003, with highest distinction): "Edicts of the Roman prefects of Egypt on Papyrus". 

Professional Experience: taught Ancient Greek, Hebrew and Jewish tradition in Jewish Open University in Leningrad (1988-1991); in Israel: worked as science assistant in Yad Ben Zvi Institute (with Prof. Reuven Bonfil), Hebrew University in Jerusalem (with Prof. Yoseph Jahalom), Bar-Ilan University (with Prof. David M. Schaps and Prof. Ranon Katzoff), Antiquities Authority (with Prof. Amos Kloner). Worked as a translator for the "Israel Joint" and other organizations. From 1994 till now teaching in Bar-Ilan University. 

Courses taught: "Classical Metrics" (1996/97); "Homer's Iliad" (1997/98); "Poet and Politics" (1998/99); "Philo Alexandrinus" (1998/99); "Love poetry in Greece and Rome" (1999/2000); "Latin for beginners" (1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06); "Ovid in Latin" (2000/01, 2005/06); "Homer in Greek" (2001/02, 2003/04, 2004/05); "Medieval Latin" (2001/02, 2010/11); "Petronius" (2001/02); "Greek lyric poetry in translation" (2002/03); "Hesiod in translation" (2003/04); "Hesiod in Greek" (2003/04); "Ovid on love in translation" (2005/06); "Latin lyric poetry" (2006/07, 2008/09, 2010/11); "Classic tradition in Western Cuture" (2006/07, 2009/10); "Comedy and lyric poetry in Rome" (2006/07); "Epos and lyric poetry in Greek" (2007/08); "Tragedy and comedy in Greek" (2007/08, 2009/10); "Advanced Latin" (2007/08, 2008/09); "Latin orators and prose writers" (2007/08); "Troy war poems and the Archaic Era in Greece" (2007/08); "Ethics, jurisdiction and private letters in Rome" (2007/08, 2009/10); "Greek orators" (2008/09); "Latin Epics" (2008/09); "Greek and Roman Mythology in translation" (2008/09); "Heroic and scientific poetry in Rome" (2008/09, 2010/11); "Lucretius in Latin" (2011/11); "Love poetry in Rome in translation" (2010/11). 
For several years I have had a Weekly column "Curious lessons" in Hebrew Language and Literature in "Vesti-Jerusalem" (newspaper in Russian).