Associate Professor of Hebrew & Comparative Literature
University of Texas
Amos Oz’s Gothic Jerusalem
Last year, the world lost one of its great authors, the Hebrew writer essayist, novelist, and short-story writer, Amos Oz. Oz is known the world over for his vocal calls for peace with the Palestinians and his insistence on moderation and compromise in political matters. First and foremost, though, he was a writer, who for decades reflected on Israeli society and helped shape modern Hebrew literature.
In numerous scholarly publications, Karen Grumberg has shown how Oz’s contributions to the Hebrew literary canon are distinctive for his representations of Israeli places. In this lecture, based partly on her recently published book Hebrew Gothic,she will discuss Oz’s portrayal of Jerusalem as a dark, spectral city, haunted by the ghosts of its past.
Karen Grumberg
* Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
* Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
* Faculty Coordinator of Israel Studies in the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
* Author of Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature (2011)
* Author of
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution (2019)
* PhD in Comparative Literature at UCLA.
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