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I
became interested in modern Hebrew literature in order to
study the history of Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict. Though I could have done this as a historian, I
was attracted to literature’s ability to give voice
to individual memory and consciousness, both of which are
central to understanding Israeli culture and its history.
At present I am revising my dissertation. This project analyzes
the unusual simultaneity of realism and modernism in Hebrew
fiction as illustrative of central tensions within Zionist
ideology and Israeli culture. In general, I try to locate
my research at the meeting of literature and history, asking
how the former reflects and even influences the latter. I
also write fiction, and my first collection was published
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Publications: “Thesis, Antithesis, Thesis: Nature in S. Yizhar’s War of Independence Stories,” in Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative. Edited by Ken Seigneurie. (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2003). “See Under: Love by David Grossman,” World Literature and Its Time 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times. Edited by Joyce Moss. (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group, forthcoming Summer 2004). “Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua,” World Literature and Its Time 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times. Edited by Joyce Moss. (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group, forthcoming Summer 2004). “A Mad Dog's Attack on Secularized Hebrew: Rethinking Agnon's Tmol Shilshom,” Prooftexts (Vol. 24:2 (2004)). Fiction: “On the grounds of Complex Commemorating the Nazis’ Treatment of the Jews,” The Iowa Review 31.2 (September 2001) The Task of This Translator (stories), (New York: Harcourt, June, 2005) Courses
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