Monday, April 15th, 2013 Ethics and Ethnicity in Isaak Babel’s Red Cavalry

DateTimeLocation
Monday, April 15, 20135:00PM - 7:00PMExternal Event, Alumni Hall, Room 400

Description

Efraim Sicher is professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published on modern Jewish culture, Russian literature, Holocaust memory, and the representation of the “Jew” in Western culture. He has extensively researched the life and work of Isaak Babelʹ and has edited several volumes of Babelʹ’s uncensored works in Russian, English, and Hebrew. His most recent books are The Holocaust Novel (2005), Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens (2nd edition 2012), and Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the “Jew” in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).


Speakers

Efraim Sicher
Professor of Comparative Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev


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