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Team

Principal Investigator

Prof. Roman Katsman

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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.

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Ph.D Students

Evgeniya Vejlan (Vorobyeva)

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Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel: Communities and Institutions

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staff

Diana Shapiro

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Мultilingual literature of expatriates from the Baltic states written in Israel.

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Anna Golubkova

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Russian-Israeli experimental poetry in 1990s-2000s

 

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Alumni

Dr. Aleksei Surin

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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

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Dr. Elena Promyshliansky

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Literature of 1990s Aliyah from the Former Soviet Union in Hebrew and Russian: Symbols of the Past and Present.

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