This seminar will offer lectures on Modern Hebrew Literature, featuring recent scholarly discussions. While open to the public, one of the seminar’s primary goals is to create a forum for ongoing discussions about the current state of Hebrew Literature and its critique. The seminar will primarily take place online, with some lectures offered in a hybrid format.
Trinity Term 2025
Weeks 4, 5, and 8
Online via Zoom on Mondays at 1pm (**unless otherwise stated)
Convened by Yoav Ronel
Week 4, Monday, 19 May (Online only)
Tafat Hacohen Bick, Van Leer Institute: “Can a Musarnik tell a story? Aesthetics, Musar, and the Birth of Modern Hebrew Literature”
In order to attend this reading group via Zoom, please register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/63XUNpDKRSCb_3dIIV7YLQ
**Week 5, Monday, 26 May (Hybrid event)
Yaacov Z. Meir, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Haim Weiss, Ben Gurion University: “Nehemia and the State of Israeli Literature”
Hybrid event, both in person at the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford, and online via Zoom
In order to attend this reading group via Zoom, please register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sMaPNLCCS2i3Ckzdm3ATuQ
Week 8, 16 June (Online only) CANCELLED
Amir Benbaji, Ben Gurion University. “Melitsah in the History of Hebrew Literary Theory”