Summer school 2022

Keren Friedman-Peleg is a senior lecturer and the Dean of the School of Behavioral Science and Psychology at the College of Management – Academic Studies, Israel. She obtained her PhD at Tel-Aviv University, in the department of Sociology and Anthropology and was a visiting scholar at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2016 and 2019), and a visiting assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2018 and 2021). Based on her ethnographic research on the politics of trauma in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she published articles in leading journals, such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and Transcultural Psychiatry (with Y. Bilu). Her book “A Nation on the Couch: The Politics of Trauma in Israel” was published by Magnes – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Press (2014), and by the University of Toronto Press (2017). Her new manuscript, "Shifting Battlegrounds: The Politics of Resilience on the Border of Israel and Gaza" is currently under review.  

Vivian Liska is Professor of German literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on literary theory, German modernism, and German-Jewish authors and thinkers. Her recent books include When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature and German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife. A Tenuous Legacy. 

Giddon Ticotsky is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the Hebrew Literature Department. His research focuses on the canon of modern Hebrew literature, both on its own and in dialogue with European culture, and combines digital humanities methods with archival and bio-bibliographic expertise.