Speakers

Shoshana Ronen

University of Warsaw

Professor Shoshana Ronen teaches in the Hebrew Studies Department at the University of Warsaw, which she headed from 2009 to 2021. She is the author of a few monographs, including A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait (2015), and co-editor of several volumes on Polish-Jewish and Hebrew literature. Her research focuses on modern Hebrew literature, Jewish thought, and modern philosophy. She explores themes such as Holocaust representation, post-Auschwitz theology, women in Judaism and Hebrew literature, and questions of memory, identity, and nationhood. She is currently working on a project titled “The Diasporic Turn in Contemporary Hebrew Literature.”

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