Principal Investigator
Prof. Roman Katsman
Roman Katsman is a full professor at the Department of Literature of the Jewish people in Bar-Ilan University, author of ten books and dozens of articles about Israeli Russian-Language and Hebrew literature, Head of the Program for Jewish-Russian literature.
Research Assistants
Aleksei Surin
Myth, Language and Catastrophe: Culture-Generating Strategies in Russian-Israeli Literature.
This dissertation analyzes the corpus of Russian-Israeli literature, focusing on how writers employ mythopoeia and linguistic games to navigate historical, cultural, and personal catastrophes, including the Holocaust, Soviet totalitarianism, emigration, and exile. It bridges Russian, Jewish, and Israeli
Ph.D Students
Evgeniya Vejlan (Vorobyeva)
Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel: Communities and Institutions
Diana Shapiro
Мultilingual literature of expatriates from the Baltic states written in Israel.
Anna Golubkova
Russian-Israeli experimental poetry in 1990s-2000s
MA students
Boris Leybov
Comparative analysis of prose by D. Rubina, E. Makarova, L. Goralic and A. Ilichevsky before and after Aliyah.
Postdoc fellow
Shlomo Groman
Semantic development of the ethnonym/toponym "Israel" in the Russian-Jewish-Israeli literature
Alumni
Dr. Elena Promyshliansky
Literature of 1990s Aliyah from the Former Soviet Union in Hebrew and Russian: Symbols of the Past and Present.