Or Rogovin
About Or Rogovin
Director, Modern Hebrew Studies Program
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2012)
- M.S.T., Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (2008)
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2006)
- B.A., Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (2001)
Research Interests
- Modern Jewish literatures (especially in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish)
- Literature of the Holocaust
- Narrative theory
- Teaching Modern Hebrew as a foreign language
Teaching Specialties
- Modern Hebrew language
- Modern Jewish literature, culture, and history
- Israel studies
- Jewish-American literature
- The Bible in modern literature
Selected Publications
"Between Perpetrator and Victim: Moral Balance in Savyon Liebrecht's 'The Strawberry-Girl.'"
Dapim: Studies in the Holocaust, Vol. 33, 2020, pp. 37-62 [in Hebrew]
"The Rise of Gitl Podkovnik: Rereading Abraham Cahan’s Yekl through the Lens of its Heroine," Studies in American Jewish Literature 39.2 (2020): 196-216.
"From 'German Wolfhounds' to 'Ordinary People': Characterizations of Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction," New German Critique 137 (August 2019): 65-89.
"The Poetics of the Other Planet: Testimony and Chronotope in Ka-Tzetnik's Piepel." in Annette F. Timm, ed. Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik. With the assistance of David Tall (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
"'Count him a human being': David Grossman's See Under: Love and Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction." Prooftexts35:1 (2016):13-24.
"Ka-Tzetnik's Moral Viewpoint." Partial Answers 14:2 (2016): 275-298.
"The Limits of Holocaust Representation in the Fiction of the 1948 Generation according to Moshe Shamir's "The Second Stutter." Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society [Iyunim Betekumat Israel] 23(2013):176-203 [in Hebrew].
"Chelm as Shtetl: Y. Y. Trunk's Khelemer khakhomim." Prooftexts 29:2 (2009): 242-272.