Efraim Sicher
Efraim Sicher is an
Israeli literary scholar. He obtained his PhD at
Oxford University and taught at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev until his retirement in 2022. Among his investigations of narrative and memory, he has written on modern
Jewish culture and
Holocaust literature. He is the author of numerous books and article on the
Russian Jewish writer
Isaac Babel. He edited the
Penguin Classics edition of Babel's short story collection ''
Red Cavalry''. 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.
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