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.