The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature

List of Contributors

Contributors Matei Calinescu emigrated to the United States in 1973 from Communist Romania. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of West European Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1976–1977) and a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow in Washington, D.C. (1995–1996). His publications in English include Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism (1987), Exploring Postmodernism (1987), and Rereading (1993). He is also the author of numerous books, essays, and articles in Romanian and French. Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977, 1997), Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992), Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970 (2002), and A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World (2005), recently reprinted in paperback. Henryk Grynberg is a Polish poet, novelist, and essayist living in the United States since 1967. In this country, he is best known as the author of The Jewish War and the Victory (2001), and Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories (2002), which brought him the 2002 Koret Jewish Book Award. Geoffrey Hartman is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Project Director of the university ’s Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. He left his native 248 | Contributors Germany in 1939 with the Kindertransport and arrived in the United States in 1945. A widely published scholar, critic, and poet, his latest book, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (2004), was awarded the 2006 Truman Capote prize for literary criticism. Eva Hoffman is a writer and an academic scholar. She was born in Kraków, Poland, and emigrated with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1959. She received her Ph.D. in literature from Harvard University and worked as an editor and writer for The New York Times. Her works include Lost in Translation (1989), Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997), and After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins (2004). She lives in New York and London. Katarzyna Jerzak grew up in Poland, arrived in the United States in 1986, and studied at Brown University and Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in 1995. She is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Her publications include articles on Witold Gombrowicz, Giorgio de Chirico, E. M. Cioran, and Henryk Grynberg. Her book manuscript, “Modern Exilic Imagination,” is currently under review, as is her translation of Grynberg’s essays. Dov-Ber Kerler, pen name Boris Karloff, was born in Moscow in 1958 and immigrated with his parents to Israel in 1971. In 1984–2000 he lived in England, where he studied and taught Yiddish language and literature at Oxford University. In 2001, he moved to Bloomington to assume the Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies at Indiana University. A son of the noted Yiddish poet and literary editor Yoysef Kerler, he has published his own poetry in Yiddish periodicals in Israel, Europe, and the United States, including four collections: Vu mit an alef (Where with an Aleph, 1996), Shpiglksav—getseylte lider (Words in a Mirror, Selected Pickings; with Yoysef Kerler, 1996), ELABREK: lider fun nayem yortoyznt (ELABREK: Poems of the New Millennium, 2006), and Katoves on a zayt: nekhtike lider (I Kid You Not: Poems of Yesteryears, 2007). Contributors | 249 Norman Manea, Flournoy Professor of European Literature and writer in residence at Bard College, New York, is a Romanian writer who has been living since 1988 in the United States. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. His latest book in English is The Hooligan’s Return (2003). He has received several important awards, among them the MacArthur Award (United States, 1992), the international literary Nonino Prize (Italy, 2002), and Le Prix Médicis Étranger (2006). Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies, is Professor of Literature and The History of Ideas at the University of Texas at Dallas. Born in Hungary, she left the country in 1957 and has been living in the United States since 1962. She is author and translator of a number of books and articles, including In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti (2001). Her most recent publication is...