Professor

Areas of Interest:

Hebrew and Comparative Studies

Education:

B.A. (University College, London), M.Litt., D.Phil. (Oxford University)

Academic Qualifications:

B.A. Honours, English Literature, University College, London, 1975; M.Litt., Oxford University, 1977; D.Phil., Oxford University, 1980; training in child psychotherapy, The Tavistock Clinic, London, 1979-1982; B.Sc., Social Sciences, Open University, 2000.

Current Position (since 1987):

Professor, 捆绑SM社区

Visiting Positions (since 1992)

2021: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

1992-1993: London University (UCL and LSE), Oxford University (Linacre College)

2001-2002: London School of Economics, Department of Sociology

2006: London School of Economics, Department of Government

2009-2014: Harvard University

2014-2018: London School of Economics, Department of International Development

2019- Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Publications:

Books:

The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas, Routledge 2021.

At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S.J. Agnon, The Littman Library and Oxford University Press, 1984.

Bialik , in Jewish Thinkers series, Arthur Hertzberg, ed. Peter Halban and Weidenfeld, London, Grove Press, U.S.A., 1988. Published in Hebrew, Yediot/Eked, 1992.

Surviving Trauma: loss, literature and psychoanalysis, Yale University Press, 1989.

Realism, Caricature and Bias: The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, The Littman Library, 1993.

Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy 750-500 BCE, Routledge, 1993. Italian translation, 1996.

Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media: Private Trauma, Public Ideals, Macmillan, 1996.

Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis, Macmillan, 1997.

The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism, (co-author), Macmillan, 2000.

Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History, Palgrave Macmillan 2003.

(Ed. and tr.) C.N. Bialik: Selected Poems, Overlook Press/Duckworth 2004.

Jewish Cultural Nationalism, Routledge, 2008.

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology, Routledge, 2013

National Poetry, Empires and War, Routledge, 2015

The Bible and the 'Holy Poor':聽from the Tanakh to聽Les Mis茅rables, Routledge, 2018

Nationalism, War, and Jewish Education: from the Roman empire to modern times, Routledge, 2019

Literature and Poverty: from the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War, Routledge 2019

Articles:

鈥楳oral Dilemmas and the Environment: The Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Industry鈥�, The Journal of the Council for Research on Religion in Montreal (JCREOR), Vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 41鈥�58.

鈥機harisma and Judaism鈥� in Routledge International Handbook on Charisma, 2020: 140-150.

"Bialik and Wordsworth: Poetry of Childhood" (Hebrew), Moznayim, Vol. 45, no. 2, 1977.

"Screen Memories of Freud, Bialik and Wordsworth," Midstream, October 1979.

"Freud's Jewish Problem", Commentary, June 1980.

"On Re鈥憆eading Bialik: Paradoxes of a 'National Poet'", Encounter, June 198l.

"The Lost Mother in Agnon鈥� (Hebrew), Moznayim, February/March 1982.

"Loss and Separation in Bialik and Wordsworth," Prooftexts, May 1982.

"Screen Memories of Writers," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1983) 10, 1: 47鈥�62.

"Charlie Chaplin: Of Crime and Genius," Encounter, May 1983.

"Loss and Dreams," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1984) II, 4:393鈥�98.

"Childlessness and the Waste Land in Bialik and T.S. Eliot," Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. 55, 1984.

"Hitler's Politics and Psychopathology," Encounter, September/October 1985.

"Grief and Mysticism," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1987) 14:509鈥�526.

"Agnon and the Need for Tradition," in Jewish Book Annual, J. Kabakoff, ed. New York, 1988.

"Creativity and the Survivor: The Struggle for Mastery," International Review of Psycho-Analysis, (1989) 16: 372鈥�86.

"Infidel Jew: Freud and Psychoanalysis," in Psychoanalysis and Tradition, Laurence Spurling, ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1993.

"Grief and Mystical Union: the Baal Shem Tov and Krishnamurti," Harvard Theological Review, 86, 3 (1993): 209-221.

"Fantasies of Deviance in Mendele and Agnon," Association for Jewish Studies Review XIX (1994) 1:45-60.

"Charisma and Attachment Theory: A Crossdisciplinary Interpretation," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 76 (1995) 4:545-555.

鈥淗ebrew Literature and Jewish Nationalism in Tsarist Russia 1881-1917," Nations and Nationalism 3,1 (1997): 25-44.

"Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis: Toward a Sociological Gestalt," British Journal of Sociology 48,1(1997): 128-148.

鈥淭he Artist as Nation-Builder: William Butler Yeats and Chaim Nachman Bialik鈥� (co-author), Nations and Nationalism 5,4 (October 1999): 501-522.

The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism,鈥� Nations and Nationalism 6, 3 (2000) 347-362.

鈥淭rauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century BCE,鈥� Judaism 198, 50, 2 (Spring 2001): 211-221.

鈥淗ellenism and Jewish Nationalism: ambivalence and its ancient roots,鈥� (co-author), Ethnic and Racial Studies 25, 5 (September 2002): 1-23.

鈥淭he Poetry of Nationalism,鈥� Nations and Nationalism 9, 3 (April 2003):255-275.

鈥淔anatic Heart: The Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg,鈥� Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal, Spring 2003: 16-32.

鈥淓nlightenment and Cultural Confusion: Mendele鈥檚 The Mare and Dangarembga鈥檚 Nervous Conditions,鈥� Comparative Literary Studies, 41, 2 (2004) 214-230.

鈥淩eligious Metaphor and Its Denial in the Poetry of Amichai,鈥� Judaism, 53, 3-4 (2004): 279-292.

鈥淣ationalism and the Hebrew Bible,鈥� Nations and Nationalism, 11 (2) 2005: 223-242.

鈥淣ationalism, Reform Judaism and the Hebrew Prayer Book,鈥� Nations and Nationalism 12 (1) 2006: 139-159.

鈥淢yth, History and Nationalism: Poetry of the British Isles,鈥� in Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism, Athena S. Leoussi and Steven Grosby, eds., Edinburgh University Press, 2007: 84-96.

鈥淭he Embrace of the Rosebush: Anti-Hebraism in Modern Jewish Literature,鈥� The International Fiction Review 34 (1&2) 2007: 92-108.

鈥淏eggars of Love: Agnon and Flaubert,鈥� Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 7, 2 (2008) 157-174.

鈥淏yron to D鈥橝nnunzio: From Liberalism to Fascism in National Poetry 1815-1920,鈥� Nations and Nationalism, 14 (3) 2008: 478-497.

鈥淗olocaust Literature: Foreshadowings and Shadowings,鈥� in Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Modern Jewish Literature in Honor of Ruth Wisse鈥�, Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 35-53.

"Polish Jewish Patriotism between the Wars,鈥� in Polin, vol. 22 (2009), ed. Antony Polonsky.

"Memoir on Isaiah Berlin," Times Literary Supplement, 5 June 2009.

鈥淶ionist Patriotism in Europe, 1897-1942: Ambiguities in Jewish Nationalism,鈥� International History Review, xxxi, 2: June 2009, pp. 268-298.

鈥淭he British Empire and Revolutionary National Poetry,鈥� Nations and Nationalism 16 (2), 2010: 220-239.

鈥淓uropean national poetry, Islam, and the defeat of the medieval Church,鈥� Nations and Nationalism 18 (4) 2012: 603-623.

鈥樷�滱 One-Sided Love Affair鈥�: German Jewish Literature 1789-1939,鈥� Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 14 (3) 2015: 1-19.

鈥淥n the 鈥楬oly Poor鈥�: from the Hebrew Bible to the literature of developing countries, 1945 -,鈥� Working Paper, London School of Economics, 2017.

鈥淭he Patriotism of Gentlemen with Red Hair: European Jews and the Liberal State, 1789-1939鈥�, The Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 30 (2) 2017: 129-146.

鈥淧overty and Mass Education: the Jews in the Roman Empire,鈥� Working Paper, London School of Economics, 2018.

Scholarly activities:

Invited Lectures:

Environmental Research Workshop at 捆绑SM社区, 鈥楾he Environment and Literature鈥�

Podcast in Poetry off the Shelf (Poetry Foundation): 鈥楶overty鈥檚 History鈥� (on Blake, Wordsworth and Clare)

Oxford University webinar, 鈥楨nergy and the Literature of Moral Dilemmas鈥� Oxford Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, on nationalism and the Hebrew Bible

鈥淭rauma and Creativity from the Bible to Modern Times,鈥� in colloquia on Terrors, Traumas and Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Psychoanalytical Society, New York.

鈥淣ationalism and the Hebrew Bible,鈥� The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism conference on Nationalism and Language, London, March 2003

鈥淣ational Poetry 1789-1914: from Revolutionary Idealism to Mass Destruction,鈥� London School of Economics

鈥淣ational Poetry in the Ottoman Turkish Empire鈥� (Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia). London School of Economics.

鈥淣ational Poetry in the Tsarist Russian Empire鈥� (Finland, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and Hebrew). London School of Economics

鈥淣ational Poetry in the British Empire鈥� (Scotland, Ireland, India, pre-State Israel). London School of Economics

鈥淗ebrew Studies as Value: the Image of Hebrew in English Literature,鈥� Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

鈥淧rophets Against the State: On the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,鈥� London School of Economics, December 1998.

鈥淥n Freud, Psychoanalysis and Judaism,鈥� The New School, New York.

鈥淕od-in-hiding: From Loss to Faith and Creativity: an interpretation of the origins of monotheism,鈥� The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淏etween Hope and Terror: The European Jews 1789-1939,鈥� Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淧overty and Ideological Failure: from Wordsworth to Steinbeck - Poverty in Western Literature, 1789-1939,鈥� Kennedy Center for International Development, Harvard University.

鈥淶ionist Patriotism and Anti-Semitism, 1897-1942,鈥� 捆绑SM社区.

鈥淏yron to D鈥橝nnunzio: from liberalism to fascism in national poetry, 1815-1920,鈥� The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淲alt Whitman, American Nationalism and the Revolutions of 1848-49,鈥� The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淪hakespeare to Wordsworth: the Bible, Capitalism and the English Poor,鈥� The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淓uropean National Poetry, Islam and the Defeat of the Medieval Church,鈥� Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淭he French Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State, 1789-1944,鈥� Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淢endele and the damned poor,鈥� conference on poverty and Judaism, Brown University.

鈥淭he Bible, Literature and Modern Economics: the betrayal of Scripture,鈥� 捆绑SM社区,

鈥淛ewish Patriotism and anti-Patriotic Literature: from Heine to Stefan Zweig,鈥� Cambridge University.

鈥淒ivine Scroungers: Scripture, legislation and the poor in Western literature,鈥� London School of Economics.

鈥淛udah Hanasi as Educational Revolutionary,鈥� Oxford, Chabad House.