Shachar Pinsker

Shachar Pinsker is a Professor of Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, and held visiting professor positions at Harvard, Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion, and the Hebrew University. He is the author of "A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture" (NYU Press, 2018), a finalist for the 2018 Jewish Book Award, and of "Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe" (Stanford University Press, 2011), the winner of the 2011 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. He the editor of "Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores" (Wayne State University Press, 2016), and the co-editor of "Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity" (University of Maryland Press, 2007). He the editor of "Where the Sky and the Sea Meet: Israeli Yiddish Stories" (Magnes Press, forthcoming, 2019), and is currently writing a book on Yiddish in Israeli literature.

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