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The new (literary) engagement with Israel
Is American Jewry estranged from Israel? Recent novels by Krauss, Safran Foer, and Englander prove just the opposite Nathan Englander’s latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth (2017) culminated in a romantic union. The lovers in the novel, an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim, are forced to hold their assignation in an underground tunnel beneath the Gaza border. The novel illustrates the difficulty of realizing or even…
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New Subjects in the Field

Why won’t Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher?

By: Dr. Gitit Levy-Paz
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Jewish Families Project

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Cultural Currency

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Gone Global: The Acceptance and Influence of Israeli Television in Foreign Markets

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Talmud vs. Kabbalah: Religion, Theology, History, Philosophy, Sociology

By: Dr. Shlomo Fischer
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Creativity and the Factors that drive Intellectual and Cultural Achievements

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Dr. Gitit Levy-Paz
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Dr. Gitit Levy-Paz is a fellow at JPPI. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Bar-Ilan University, an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from Ben Gurion University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Communication from Bar-Ilan University. Her work focuses on contemporary Jewish American identity from an interdisciplinary – sociological, political and literary – viewpoint. In addition to her work at the JPPI, she is a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.

Gitit was selected as a research fellow for the Israel Democracy Institute’s program on Judaism and Human Rights and has received several other fellowships. She worked as a literary editor and wrote literary criticism for the literary section of Haaretz.

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