About
Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies
The University of Michigan
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union, 2001.
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
B.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1994.
Comparative and Hebrew Literature; Amirim Program for Outstanding Students Publications
Books and Edited Volumes:
A Rich Brew: Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish Culture (New York University Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019)
Editor:
Where the Sky and the Sea Meet: Israeli Yiddish Stories [Hebrew] (Magness Press, forthcoming, 2019)
Editor:
Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores (Wayne State University Press, 2016)
Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011); Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies for the best book in Jewish Literature and Linguistics published 2007-2011
Co-editor (with Sheila Jelen):
Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron’s Fiction, Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2007).
Books
in Progress:
A Silent Language? Yiddish in Israeli Literature and CultureMemberships
Association for Jewish Studies
Modern Languages Association
Association for Professors of Hebrew
American Comparative Literature Association
Association for Israel Studies
