Journal articleShofar · January 1, 2024
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 readership rapidly dissipating. D ...
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Journal articleMikan · 2016
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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 ...
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Journal articleShofar · June 1, 2015
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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 ...
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Journal articleAJS Review · November 2011
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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 ...
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