Associate Professor, Middle East Studies/Judaic Studies
spinsker@umich.eduOffice Information:
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 4155, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
phone: 734.764.8103
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; CMENAS Faculty; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; CREES Faculty Associates
Education/Degree:
PhD, University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union, 2001Columbia University and YIVO Institute, Yiddish Studies, 1997, 2001
MA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Hebrew and Comparative Literature, 1995
BA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Comparative and Hebrew Literature; Amirim Program for Outstanding Students, 1994
Highlighted Work and Publications
Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe
Shachar Pinsker
Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernist Hebrew prose-fiction, as it emerged from 1900 to 1930, was shaped by the highly charged encounter of traditionally educated Jews with the revolution...
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