Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. The author of nearly 30 scholarly articles and two highly regarded books, Professor Ezrahi has written for more than two decades on modern Jewish identity, on poetry, and on the Holocaust in Jewish literature. She held a National Endowment for the Humanities stipend in 1985; in 1981 her book By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (1980) was a finalist for the Leon Jolson Award, a category of the National Jewish Book Awards. Professor Ezrahi’s latest book is Booking Passage: On Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (2000).
