Faculty Fellow
Na'ama Rokem
Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature & Comparative Literature
University of Chicago
Biography
Na'ama Rokem works on Modern Hebrew and German-Jewish literature. Her first book, Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and Spaces of Zionist Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2013) argues that prose - as a figure of thought, a mode, and a medium - played an instrumental role in the literary foundations of the Zionist revolution. She is now writing a book about the encounter between Paul Celan and Yehuda Amichai, as well as articles on multilingualism and translation in the works of Hannah Arendt and Leah Goldberg, on the politics of translation in Israel. With Amir Eshel, she coedited a special issue of Prooftexts, on German-Hebrew relations.
Topics
Project
The Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 1820–1948
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2021 – 2024