Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 855-4744

Email:

katzs@indiana.edu

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Advanced Hebrew I and II
• Modern Hebrew Literature in English translation (and in the original)
• Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature
• Recent Hebrew Literature in English translation (and in the original)
• S. Y. Agnon and the Jewish Experience
• The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction
• Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Literature

Publication Highlights

• "Ambivalent Embraces: American Hebraists' Accommodation with Eretz Israel." Jewish Quarterly Review (forthcoming).
• "Quinces," A short story by Avshalom Kaveh, will appear in the spring 2010 issue of Zeek.
• Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
• "First Cry: Moshe Ben-Meir's Early Holocaust Poetry of the Un-Passover." Hebrew Studies L (2009): 277–304.
• "Child's Play: Hillel Bavli's 'Mrs. Woods' and Indian Representation in American Hebrew Literature." Modern Judaism 27, no. 2 (2007): 193–218.
• "To be as Others: E.E. Lisitzky's Re-presentation of Native Americans." Hebrew Union College Annual 73 (2003), 249–97.
• The Centrifugal Novel: S.Y. Agnon's Poetics of Narrative. Madison, NJ: AUP/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
• Ha-Gibbor be-Eynay Ruho: Torat ha-Sipper be-'oreah nata lalun' le-Shay Agnon [in Hebrew, "The Hero in His Own Eyes: Narrative Techniques in S.Y. Agnon's A Guest for the Night"]. Tel-Aviv: Eked, 1985.