A Great Yearning Fills Them All…

By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi | November 1, 2010

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About Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Professor Emerita of General and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has written on subjects ranging from representations of the Holocaust in postwar Israeli, European and American culture to the configurations of exile and homecoming in contemporary Jewish and Israeli literature. She became a Guggenheim Fellow for her current project, Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2021). She has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of Tikkun for the past 35 years.

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