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Uri Cohen
Columbia University
Born in the US and raised in Israel, Uri Cohen is an assistant professor specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture at Columbia University. He is the author of the novel “Resting in Peace” (2003) and a documentary film on Israeli writer Ida Fink. He has published on a variety of topics that range from the prose of Primo Levi to the concepts of grief and death in Hebrew letters and culture. His book, "Survival: Senses of Death Between the World Wars in Palestine and Italy" appeared in Hebrew in 2007.
Israeli Culture and the Holocaust
Ida Fink and Israeli Cultures of the Holocaust
- Friday 11:45AM–1:00PM Congressional Room 2
This session will review the ways in which the Israeli culture has dealt with the destruction of European Jews and its place in the composition of Israeli identity. The discussion will revolve around the figure of Ida Fink, a sublime writer who has lived in Israel since 1957 and still writes in Polish. The reception of her work and the documentation of her life will be at the center of this discussion.
Hebrew Love: Modern Hebrew Love poetry
Israeli love poetry
- Friday 4:50PM–6:15PM Congressional Room 1
This session will examine some of the most beautiful poems written in Hebrew in the context of Israel. Using the biblical intertext, the love poetry written in the land of Israel and later in the state, talks about the heart but also about gender roles, the nation and the polity. These contexts and intertexts will be examined together as the poetics of emotional experience talk about love.
War and Israeli Poetry
Poetic Wars
- Saturday 11:30AM–12:45PM Tower Board Room
Israel
The session will examine Israeli poetry as seen from its engagement with and in war. This double prespective will try to place poetry within the events which it describes and engages, while at the same time taking part in the wars of Israeli culture. Poetry by Alterman, Guri, Gilboa, Zach, and Pagis will serve as a case study.
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