Prof. Avidov Lipsker teaches at Bar-Ilan University in the Faculty of Jewish Studies. His principal research areas are Modern Hebrew Literature from the turn of the century to the present and Thematology of the Literature of the Jewish People. Most of the research in Modern Hebrew Literature deals with literature of the Third and Fourth Aliyot (immigration waves) during which Hebrew Modernism was formulated in the poetry of the 1920s and 1930s, related to poetry streams in Jewish and general literature and art. His Books on Modern Hebrew Poetry: The Poetry Of S.Shalom (1990)` The Poetry of A.Broides (2000). His study proposes a new theoretical approach named Cultural Ecosystem, which provides a new explanation for replacement of poetic models in the ecological literary habitat. This model provides a new critical narrative instead of the accepted historiography of the "Literary Republic". In the sphere of the Thematology of the Literature of the Jewish People, he created, jointly with Prof. Yoav Elstein a multisystem model dealing with versions of the Jewish story and published the Thematological Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story: Sippur Okev Sippur (Bar-Ilan Univ. Press 2005).
