MEALAC | Uri Cohen

Uri Cohen
Hebrew Literature
618 Kent
uc2107@columbia.edu
Hours: Th 4-6

Uri Cohen is an assistant professor specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture. He has studied under Dan Miron at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and wrote his dissertation on the "Survival: Senses of Death between the World Wars in Italy and Palestine". His interests in Modern Hebrew culture and literature include among others the role of poetic language in political discourse, and questions of cultural representation of conflict and war.

Uri is the author of a novel "Resting in Peace", which appeared in Israel in 2003 and has authored a documentary film on Israeli writer Ida Fink (Jerusalem festival 2004). He has been an active literary critic for the Israeli radio, Yediot Aharonot and the magazine Erez Acheret.

He has published on variety of topics that range from the prose of Primo Levi (Alpaim 25) on the figurative use of animals in Zionist discourse (Jerusalem Studies 19) Agnon's Modernity (Modernism/Modernity 2006) and the concepts of grief and death in Hebrew letters and culture. (Peace and War in Jewish Culture, 2006).

His teaching at Columbia includes Literature Humanities, courses on IsraelÕs various posts (modernism, Zionism, colonialism) on Israeli culture from a variety of perspectives; seminars on the ethics of nation building, senses of death and Holocaust representation. His Book Survival: Senses of Death between the World Wars in Palestine and Italy appeared in Hebrew in 2006 (Resling). Currently he is working on the translation of AgambenÕs Remnants of Auchwitz into Hebrew, a book on Orly Castel BloomÕs prose and a documentary project on Poet and Author Haim Guri.

Awards:

Brandwine Award
Wolf Foundation Award
Abraham Harman Award for outstanding PhD. Students;
Romollo Deoto Award


Home Faculty Programs Courses Languages Events News Faculty Openings Affiliates Admissions		Uri Cohen Hebrew Literature 618 Kent uc2107@columbia.edu Hours: Th 4-6 Uri Cohen is an assistant professor specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture. He has studied under Dan Miron at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and wrote his dissertation on the "Survival: Senses of Death between the World Wars in Italy and Palestine". His interests in Modern Hebrew culture and literature include among others the role of poetic language in political discourse, and questions of cultural representation of conflict and war. Uri is the author of a novel "Resting in Peace", which appeared in Israel in 2003 and has authored a documentary film on Israeli writer Ida Fink (Jerusalem festival 2004). He has been an active literary critic for the Israeli radio, Yediot Aharonot and the magazine Erez Acheret. He has published on variety of topics that range from the prose of Primo Levi (Alpaim 25) on the figurative use of animals in Zionist discourse (Jerusalem Studies 19) Agnon's Modernity (Modernism/Modernity 2006) and the concepts of grief and death in Hebrew letters and culture. (Peace and War in Jewish Culture, 2006). His teaching at Columbia includes Literature Humanities, courses on IsraelÕs various posts (modernism, Zionism, colonialism) on Israeli culture from a variety of perspectives; seminars on the ethics of nation building, senses of death and Holocaust representation. His Book Survival: Senses of Death between the World Wars in Palestine and Italy appeared in Hebrew in 2006 (Resling). Currently he is working on the translation of AgambenÕs Remnants of Auchwitz into Hebrew, a book on Orly Castel BloomÕs prose and a documentary project on Poet and Author Haim Guri. Awards: Brandwine Award Wolf Foundation Award Abraham Harman Award for outstanding PhD. Students; Romollo Deoto Award