Background
Balaban, Avraham was born on October 29, 1944 in Kibbutz Hulda, Israel. Arrived in the United States, 1983. Son of Yonah and Shprintza Balaban.
Balaban, Avraham was born on October 29, 1944 in Kibbutz Hulda, Israel. Arrived in the United States, 1983. Son of Yonah and Shprintza Balaban.
Doctor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1978.
Visiting scholar Harvard University, Boston, 1983—1984. Assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1984—1989. Associate professor of modern Hebrew literature University Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1989—1990, full professor of modern Hebrew literature, since 1991, chair, department of African and Asian languages and literatures, 1996—2002.
Member of World Union of Jewish Studies, National Association of Professor of Hebrew, Association of Jewish Studies.
Married Rachel Gil-Balaban, October 10, 1992. Children: Ron, Tal Dotan.