Scholars@Duke
Yitzhak Meir Lewis

Yitzhak Meir Lewis

Associate Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions

Podcast interview about "A Permanent Beginning" - New Books Network · 2020 Interview
What rhymes with Scholem? Scholem and the Kabbalah as literary figures in the writing of Borges - Marking 50 years since the famous meeting of Jorge Luis Borges and Gershom Scholem · 2019 Invited Talk Naitonal Library of Israel (The lecture begins at 54:35)
The Intellectual Writer and Literary Mysterium, or: What Borges Learned from the God of the Theologians - Theopoetics: The Presence of Holiness in the Work of Art · 2018 International Meeting or Conference Bar-Ilan University
An Invisible Difference: Defining Rabbi Nachman’s Contribution to the Constitution of Modern Jewish Literature - International Conference: New Studies in Braslav Hassidism · 2017 International Meeting or Conference The Van Leer Institute