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Professor Shoshana Ronen

e-mail: ronen@uw.edu.pl

Professor Shoshana Ronen teaches at the Department of Hebrew Studies at the University of Warsaw, and was the head of the Department in years 2009-2021. She is the author of In Pursuit of the Void: Journeys to Poland in Contemporary Israeli Literature (2001); Nietzsche and Wittgenstein: In Search of Secular Salvation, (2002); Polin – A Land of Forests and Rivers: Images of Poland and Poles in Contemporary Hebrew Literature in Israel (2007), A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait (2015), and the co-editor of Polish and Hebrew Literature and National Identity (2010), A Romantic Polish-Jew: Rabbi Ozjasz Thon from Various Perspectives (2015), and The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews From Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz (2017). 

She is interested in modern Hebrew literature, Jewish thought, and modern philosophy. Her work focuses on topics such as the Holocaust in Hebrew literature, Jewish philosophical and theological reflections after Auschwitz, women in Judaism and Hebrew literature, as well as memory, identity, and nationhood in modern Hebrew literature. Currently, she is conducting research on a project titled “The Diasporic Turn in Contemporary Hebrew Literature.”

Selected publications:

  • “The Strive to Realize the Imagined Map of the Promised Land and its Consequences: Three Dystopias in Hebrew Literature Today.” Kwartalnik Historii Żydów 289, nr 1 (2024): 99-118. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1278198. 
  • “Israelis? Poles? Blurring the Boundaries of Identity in Contemporary Israel Literature.” In Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35),  edited by Israel Bartal, Francois Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Scott Ury, 373–87. Liverpool University Press (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization), 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv33b9q2r.26.
  • “The Diasporic Turn in Hebrew Literature Today.” Kwartalnik Historii Żydów 281, nr 1 (2022): 29-43. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1041469. 
  • “What Do We Share? A Secular-Humanist Response.” In Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue: Religious Thinkers Engage with Recent Papal Initiatives, edited by Harold Kasimow and Alan Race, 279-300. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96095-1_14.
  • [with Alina Molisak, eds.] The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews From Different Perspectives: In Memory of I. L. Peretz. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Zobacz więcej na stronie wydawnictwa.
  • “From Exclusivism to Inclusivism in Jewish Prayers. The Case of the Morning Prayer: Blessed are You, Lord, for Not Having Made Me a Woman.” Studia Religiologica 50, no. 3 (2017): 267-277. https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.17.016.7938.
  • A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait. Warszawa: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2015. Zobacz więcej na stronie wydawnictwa.
  • [with Michał Galas, eds.] A Romantic Polish-Jew: Rabbi Ozjasz Thon from Various Perspectives. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2015. Zobacz więcej na stronie wydawnictwa.
  • “The Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides: Transfigurations of a book.” Estetyka i Krytyka  38, nr 3 (2015): 65-84. https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-09ba794f-3e05-4399-9dca-1c94372ba978.
  • “Tefillin: Transgression of A Jewish Religious ritual Article: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry As a Modern Midrash.” Przegląd Humanistyczny 451, nr 4 (2015): 197-207. https://przegladhumanistyczny.pl/article/98373/en.
  • “Post-Holocaust Representations of Poland in Israeli Literature.” The Polish Review 60, no. 3 (2015): 3-20. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.60.3.0003.
  • “A Journey to Poland – A Return to the Self in Poland, a Green Country by Aharon Appelfeld.” Yod: revue des hébraïques et juives (INALCO) 19 (2014): 201-210. https://doi.org/10.4000/yod.2043.
  • [with Alina Molisak, eds.] Polish and Hebrew Literature and National Identity. Warszawa: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2010. Zobacz więcej na stronie wydawnictwa.
  • Polin – A Land of Forests and Rivers: Images of Poland and Poles in Contemporary Hebrew Literature in Israel. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2007. 
  • Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. In Search of Secular Salvation. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog, 2002. Zobacz więcej na stronie wydawnictwa.
  • In Pursuit of the Void: Journeys to Poland in Contemporary Israeli Literature. Kraków: Judaica Foundation, Center for Jewish Culture, 2001.