Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream

Nurith Gertz is professor emerita of Hebrew literature and film, the Open University of Israel, and head of the Department of Culture Creation and Production, Sapir College. She served as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1984), and at Yale University (1990–1991, 2001). Her book Unrepentant (2008), on the life of Amos Kenan, won the 2009 Brenner Prize for Literature, and in 2010 it received the Israeli Book Publishers Association Gold Award. Her scholarship focuses on Israeli literature and film. Among her many books, Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream (Hebrew, 1995; English, 2000) exemplifies her interdisciplinary approach, as does A Different Chorus: Holocaust Survivors, Aliens and Other in Israeli Cinema and Literature (2004) [Hebrew]. Together with George Khleifi she published Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory (Hebrew, 2006; English, 2008). She is the author most recently of An Ocean between Us (2016) [Hebrew] and Harbor of Our Fate (2023) [Hebrew], two biographical novels. She is the coeditor, with Deborah Dash Moore, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1973–2005.