Efraim Sicher is an

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i literary scholar. He obtained his PhD at

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and taught at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

until his retirement in 2022. Among his investigations of narrative and memory, he has written on modern Jewish culture and

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. He is the author of numerous books and article on the Russian Jewish writer

Isaac Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, p=ˈbabʲɪlʲ; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' ...

. He edited the

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edition of Babel's short story collection ''

Red Cavalry ''Red Cavalry'' or ''Konarmiya'' (russian: Конармия) is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the Polish–Soviet War and are based on Babel's diary, which ...

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/ref> His work on postmodern Jewish writers includes the controversial Reenvisoning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora (2021) and Postmodern Love: Negotiating Jewish Identites and Spaces (2022), which challenged the consensus of separate cultures in Israel and America and pointed to the blurring of boundaries of gender, sexual, and ethnic identies in a breakdown of "Jewishness" and an erosion of history. Lederhendler, Eli. “Re-Envisioning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora by Efraim Sicher.” Partial Answers, vol. 21, no. 1, 2023, pp. 176–78, https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2023.0011.

Selected works

* ''The Holocaust Novel'' * ''Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century'' (editor) * ''Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz'' (editor) * ''Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism'' * ''Style And Structure In The Prose Of Isaak Babel'' * ''Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution'' * ''Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing'' (with Linda Weinhouse) * ''Holocaust Novelists'' ('' Dictionary of Literary Biography'' vol. 299) * ''Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature After the Holocaust'' * ''The Jew's Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative'' * ''Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity''

References

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