On Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine This is a rather long and not very happy post. You wouldn’t find here much that is new in terms of facts or even analysis of what’s going on in Israel/Palestine. It’s just a personal account of, and some reflections on one eventful night around here. If you are […]
Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine: July 18, 2014 Read More »
On May 2014, I visited Warsaw (ווארשע) to do research for my book on urban cafés and modern Jewish culture. Here are some photos from my visit at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and from walking around this incredible city, where traces of Jewish life are present almost everywhere. The Museum of
Rachel Harris published a review essay on Literary Passports and other books in Hebrew and Jewish modernism in the Winter 2014 issue of the journal Modernism/Modernity : Rachel Harris: “Modernism/Modernity,” 21:1, January 2014: “Pinsker’s approach thus challenges the premises of epoch-defining critic Gershon Shaked, who has suggested that Hebrew modernism was a movement quashed by its failure to
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Conference in London, 11–13 May 2014: Language, Nation, and Modernity – Hebrew in Europe, 1800 to the present A joint King’s-UCL international workshop Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan “A Hebrew Table at Café Monopol”? The Place of Hebrew in European Modernism Co-organized by Lily Kahn (UCL) and Andrea Schatz (King’s College London) Academic advisors: Israel Bartal(Hebrew University) and Lewis Glinert (Dartmouth College)
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