Scholarship and Biography
Esther Shorr is a senior lecturer in the Hebrew program since 1986. She has taught and developed a variety of Hebrew courses specializing in beginning and intermediate levels.
For twelve years Shorr taught Hebrew at the Brandeis Hebrew Language Summer Institute and lectured on the development of the Israeli folk songs
Since the summer of 2008 Esther Shorr has been teaching Hebrew at the Middlebury Language Schools at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.
Esther Shorr has had extensive teaching experience in Israel, England and the United States. She has taught different age groups and at different educational institutions.
During the Spring of 2021, Esther served as the acting director of the Hebrew program at Brandeis University.
Shorr, along with her colleagues, published "Brandeis Modern Hebrew," which has instantly become the standard college Hebrew textbook in America. She is also the co-author of "Brandeis Modern Hebrew - Intermediate to Advanced," which was released in pilot edition in July 2013.
Shorr is a co-founder of the singing band-"Shirli" in Israel.
She was also a member of the Zamir Chorale of Boston for ten years, and she sang and performed for several years, with "Arbah Kanfote", a Jewish Women's Chorus until 2019.