Shai Ginsburg

Journal Article Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies · 2024 Abstract: Scholars of Hebrew literature commonly perceive the early years of the twentieth century as a time of crisis for Hebrew literature. While Yiddish literature was gaining an ever-greater readership, Hebrew literature saw its ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Materialist Approaches to Jewish Culture

Journal Article Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies · 2024 Full text Cite

IMAGE, WORD, LAND

Other Hebrew Studies · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Review of Marina Zilbergerts, The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

Journal Article PaRDeS JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES IN GERMANY · 2023 Full text Cite

Write Down, I Am a Woman

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Cite

Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture

Other · December 2020 Cite

From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children’s Literature

Chapter · October 1, 2020 As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical notice. ... Cite

Hebrew Literary Thought

Journal Article Mikan · April 2020 Link to item Cite

Introduction

Journal Article Mikan · April 2020 Link to item Cite

Rereading Hebrew Speech

Journal Article Mikan · April 2020 Cite

Mothers, Fathers, and the Hebrew Literary Canon

Other Novel · August 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Theory and Literature

Other Novel · May 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Jews and the ends of theory

Book · December 4, 2018 Theory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often been coded as "Jewish." This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theo ... Cite

Introduction: Jews, theory, and ends

Book · December 4, 2018 Cite

Jews, Theory, and Ends

Chapter · 2018 Cite

Pessah Ginsburg: Two Letters (Christiania 1917; London 1918)

Journal Article Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature · 2017 Cite

Literature, Colonialism, and Empire. Rev. of To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel by Hannan Hever

Other Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature · 2017 Cite

Paul de Man’s Death Mask

Journal Article Mikan · 2016 Featured Publication This essay presents a close reading of Paul de Man’s seminal essay, Autobiography as Defacement. It seeks to uncover the unsettling effect de Man finds in autobiography by paying close attention to the images of the suffering human body and ... Cite

Autobiography as De-Facement

Journal Article Miakn · 2016 Cite

Alon Hilu and the Hebrew historical novel

Journal Article Shofar · June 1, 2015 Featured Publication In this paper, I discuss Alon Hilu’s two historical novels, Death of a Monk (2004) and The Dejani Estate (2008), as symptomatic of Israeli culture of the twenty-first century. I argue that the question of genre-historical fiction-is as central to the const ... Full text Cite

Poetry and Conflict: on Civility, Citizenship and Criticism

Chapter · 2015 Featured Publication Cite

Rev. of Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg

Other IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture · 2015 Cite

The City and the Body: Jerusalem in Uri Tsvi Greenberg’s Vision of One of the Legions

Chapter · April 2014 Cite

Rhetoric and nation: The formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880–1990

Book · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Recent and commonly accepted criticism holds that written and spoken Hebrew reveals a shared logic, a collective rhetoric that is identifiable and can be traced as an evolving phenomenon throughout the centuries. In Rhetoric and Nation, Ginsburg charts the ... Cite

The Bookcase and the Language of Grace

Journal Article Mikan · 2014 Featured Publication Cite

Class and Historical Anxiety: The Rhetoric of Class in David Ben-Gurion’s and Meir Ya’ari’s Thought (in Hebrew)

Chapter · 2014 Cite

S. Yizhar’s Khirbet Khizeh and the rhetoric of conflict

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010

Book · 2013 Cite

War and Peace in Israel: Hebrew Literature and Russian Literature in Hebrew, 1942–60

Chapter · 2013 Cite

From Ziklag One Cannot See Khirbet Khizeh

Chapter · 2012 Cite

The Physics of Being Jewish, or On Cats and Jews

Journal Article AJS Review · November 2011 Featured Publication The opening scene of Joel and Ethan Coen'sA Serious Manhas baffled many. What does an unsettling tale of an encounter with what may or may not be a dybbuk, set in the mid-nineteenth century in a Polish shtetl, and played ... Full text Cite

Jews and Cinema, Stereotypes, and Self-Images. Rev. of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema by Nathan Abrams

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Literature, Colonialism, and Empire.” Rev. of To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel by Hannan Hever

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A year ago, the hostages were a rallying point for solidarity in Israel – now, their families are symbols of the country’s sharp divides

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How Israel’s Netanyahu survives in his job

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