Researcher interests: Modern Hebrew literature; Israeli literature. Sacredness and nationalism in Hebrew literature. “Old“ settlement (Yishuv) in Hebrew literature. Eros, family and community in Eretz-Israeli literature. The Israeli sovereign: Israeli literature and public discourse in the 1960s and 1970s. Colonial and post-Colonial Hebrew literature: a comparative perspective. Nationalism and gender in Israeli writers` prose. National and ethnic identity in Hebrew and Israeli literature.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Humanities
DEPARTMENT: Hebrew Literature
Selected Publications
shai ginsburg rhetoric and nation the formation of hebrew national culture 1880 1990 syracuse ny syracuse university press 2014 484 pp (2016)|
Ajs Review-the Journal of The Association for Jewish Studies|
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mastery regained israeli jewish sovereignty and space in the israeli novel 1967 1973 (2011)|
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies|
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photography home language ronit matalon facing joseph conrad s colonial journeys in the heart of darkness (2010)|
Prooftexts-a Journal of Jewish Literary History|
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