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Biography
While my career began with an examination of stories concerning divination and reading in rabbinic literature (the subject of my first book, Recite Your Verse to Me, published by Resling), my academic work has since gone down its own path. Today, in light of my study of Paul Recoeur’s philosophy of reading and communication, I am interested in the phenomenology of cultural discourse – that is, the various ways that a culture generates, examines, and grapples with language and discourse by means of its cultural and artistic output (my second book, What Does Cinema Resemble?, published this year by Carmel, addresses these topics). My study of Hebrew literature (Alterman, Agnon, Bialik, and Brenner), the history of Zionism and the state of Israel, and contemporary cinema, as well as my continuing investigation of rabbinic literature, all fall under this larger question. This is a broad examination that integrates diverse fields of study and serves as a basis for a deeper understanding of Israeli and Western culture.
In addition, I am currently involved in the development and academic-pedagogical research of alternative forms of evaluation in academia, a central question in many innovative approaches to academic teaching and evaluation.
Likewise, I am developing various programs intended to provide training in the humanities for prominent figures in fields such as medicine and entrepreneurship; I aim to create an encounter between the theoretical and the practical, out of a belief that the function of academia is to add depth to society as a whole, and that the study of texts in the humanities may enrich and clarify one’s activity in the practical realm.