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Ranen Omer-Sherman

Ranen Omer-Sherman was a founding member of a desert kibbutz and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami where he teaches a wide range of courses in American and British as well as Israeli and other Jewish literatures. He has edited a special issue of Shofar on the subject of Jewish Orientalism. His first book, Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, Roth (2002) was published by Brandeis University Press. His second book entitled Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert (2006), which examines sacred as well as political aspects of the writer’s responses to the wilderness of Exodus, is published by the University of Illinois Press.

He is currently editing a book of essays on the 'Jewish Graphic novel' and is researching Levantine identities in contemporary memoir and fiction.

His book reviews appear in The Miami Herald and his essays on literature are published in academic journals such as Prooftexts,Journal of Modern Jewish StudiesReligion & Literature,ShofarMELUS, and Modernism/Modernity


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