| Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi is Professor of Comparative Jewish Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has written broadly on subjects ranging from representations of the Holocaust in fiction, poetry, drama and film to the reconfigurations of exile and homecoming in modern Jewish literature. Ezrahi's first book was By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. Her most recent book is titled Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Currently, Ezrahi is engaged in a sequel to the arguments developed in Booking Passage, focusing on the recreation of Jewish culture after and in the shadow of Auschwitz. |