Professor, Co-Head Fellow, 2024-25 Frankel Institute "Jews and Media"
spinsker@umich.edu
Office Information:
4155 Thayer, 1608
phone: 7342391040
Judaic Studies;
Jewish Languages;
Israel and Palestine;
Literary Studies;
Cultural Studies;
Faculty;
Holocaust and Antisemitism;
Modern and Contemporary;
Fellows
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Hebrew University
About
Shachar Pinsker is a Professor of Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies, and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. His scholarly writings include two award-winning books: Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (2011), and A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture (2018). He is also the editor (with Sheila Jelen) of Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity (2007), Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores (2016), and Where the Sky and the Sea Meet: Israeli Yiddish Stories (2021). He is currently writing a book on Yiddish in Israeli literature, and co-directing the NEH supported research project: The Feuilleton, the Public Sphere, and Modern Jewish Cultures.
