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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Stephen KatzStephen Katz

  • Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Robert and Sandra S, Borns Jewish Studies Program

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Doctor of Hebrew Literature (D.H.L.) at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1979

Research Interests

  • Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
  • Fiction of S. Y. Agnon
  • American experience of Jews and Hebrew writers
  • Hebrew poetry

Contact Information

katzs@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 206
(812) 855-4744

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,” forthcoming in Jewish Quarterly Review.  
  • “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 (2002), 249-297. (published in 2003).
  • The Centrifugal Novel: S.Y. Agnon's Poetics of Narrative (Madison, N.J.: A.U.P./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).
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