Or Rogovin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Or Rogovin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Or |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogovin |
| SIGNATURE | ROGOVIN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rise of Gitl Podkovnik
The critical discourse on Abraham Cahan’s Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) has given most of its attention to Yekl/Jake Podkovnik, the novel’s explicit hero, leaving the character of his wife, Gitl, mostly overlooked. This trend is unfortunate because Gitl is a central and complex character whose role throughout the narrative is essential not only to its plot development, but also to the formation of its meaning as an immigrant novel. A…
From "German Wolfhounds" to "Ordinary People
The image of the perpetrator in Israeli Holocaust fiction changed fundamentally in the mid-1980s: from one-dimensional Nazi beasts, typical of earlier Israeli writing, to humanized individuals, whose vulnerability and multidimensionality may blur the divide between victims and victimizers. This development, which corresponds to similar patterns in other literatures (e.g., George Steiner's Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.; Jonathan Littell's Kindl…
Between Meir Dworzecki and Yehiel Dinur
The term amidah or Jewish resistance during the Holocaust has been controversial since its inception. Should it be limited to armed or at least active and collective operations, or should it include spiritual and moral responses? In his 1968 paper ‘The day-to-day stand of the Jews,’ Meir Dworzecki argued for the wider definition, and a similar approach is evident in Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra novels. This study employs Dworzecki’s perspective as a k…
Between Meir Dworzecki and Yehiel Dinur
The term amidah or Jewish resistance during the Holocaust has been controversial since its inception. Should it be limited to armed or at least active and collective operations, or should it include spiritual and moral responses? In his 1968 paper ‘The day-to-day stand of the Jews,’ Meir Dworzecki argued for the wider definition, and a similar approach is evident in Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra novels. This study employs Dworzecki’s perspective as a k…
Between Meir Dworzecki and Yehiel Dinur
The term amidah or Jewish resistance during the Holocaust has been controversial since its inception. Should it be limited to armed or at least active and collective operations, or should it include spiritual and moral responses? In his 1968 paper ‘The day-to-day stand of the Jews,’ Meir Dworzecki argued for the wider definition, and a similar approach is evident in Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra novels. This study employs Dworzecki’s perspective as a k…
From "German Wolfhounds" to "Ordinary People
The image of the perpetrator in Israeli Holocaust fiction changed fundamentally in the mid-1980s: from one-dimensional Nazi beasts, typical of earlier Israeli writing, to humanized individuals, whose vulnerability and multidimensionality may blur the divide between victims and victimizers. This development, which corresponds to similar patterns in other literatures (e.g., George Steiner's Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.; Jonathan Littell's Kindl…
The Rise of Gitl Podkovnik
The critical discourse on Abraham Cahan’s Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) has given most of its attention to Yekl/Jake Podkovnik, the novel’s explicit hero, leaving the character of his wife, Gitl, mostly overlooked. This trend is unfortunate because Gitl is a central and complex character whose role throughout the narrative is essential not only to its plot development, but also to the formation of its meaning as an immigrant novel. A…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · The Holocaust (2 works) · Art history (1 work)