Dr. Dina Berdichevsky

Research fellow in the program area History of Theory

CV

  • 2026- Guest research fellow, ZfL, Berlin.
  • 2025- Associate professor in the Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University.
  • 2019 Senior Lecturer (tenure track)  Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University.
  • 2017-2019 Postdoc, Leibnitz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.
  • 2017 Ph.D., Dep. of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation title: “The Essayistic Poetics of Y. H Brenner and the Rise of Early Hebrew Modernism.”
  • 2009 MA in Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 2006 BA in Jewish Studies and Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Fellowships

  • 2026– Visiting Humboldt Fellow, ZfL
  • 2018- 2019:   Minerva Foundation post-doctoral fellow, Leibnitz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.
  • 2017- 2018:   Yad-Hanadiv-Rothschild post-doctoral fellow,  Leibnitz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.

Publications

Monographs:

  • To the Water: Yosef Haim Brenner and the days of Early Hebrew Modernism, Jerusalem: Magness, 2023. (Hebrew)
  • Moody Days: A Poetic Journey Through History in Seven Chapters and an Epilogue, forthcoming in Bar-Ilan University Press (Hebrew).
Articles in peer reviewed journals:

  • “Gogol (and) the Jew: Taras Bulba, Elusive Value and Narrative Economy,”  forthcoming, Poetics Today.
  • “Chekhov’s Time is Coming: On Steppe’s Moving Image,” forthcoming, Partial Answers.
  • “Lea Goldberg’s Other Time,” OT: Journal for Literature and Theory. Vol. 12 (October 2024), 149—167. (Hebrew).
  • "Palestine's Mute landscape: Metonymies of destruction in Lea Goldberg's Late Work,” Mikan [From Here: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture] Vol. 24 (May 2023), 243—258. (Hebrew).
  • "The Long Endless Railroads, the Blowing of Winds, and the Invention of the Hebrew Mood,” Comparative Literature (CL), Vol. 73:1 (Spring 2021), 23-40.  
  • “The Jewish December 1910; or, The Parting of Ways of Eretz Yisraeli Prose and Hebrew Modernism,” Dibur Journal, Vol 9 (fall 2020), Online resource.
  • “Jews, Essayists and the rest of the Genre-less: the case of Brenner and his contemporaries,” Mikan [From Here: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture], Vol 20 (2020), 26-46. (Hebrew).
  • “‘Hide and Seek: Brenner's London as a Poetical Juncture of Early Hebrew Modernisms,” Mehkarei Yerushalayim [Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature], Vol 30 (2019), 57-80. (Hebrew).
  • “High Exposure: The Poetics and Politics of Y.H Brenner Ocular Experiments of the Early Twentieth Century,” The Simon Dubnow Yearbook, Vol. 17 (2018), 15-34.
  • “Not from Here, Not from Here: Brenner’s Essayistic Novel beyond the Realist Paradigm,” OT: Journal for Literature and Theory, Vol 8 (2018), 59-85. (Hebrew).
  • “Measuring Distances: Hebrew Essayists read World Literature,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Vol. 36, 1-2, (2017), 27-52.
Essays and book reviews:

  • “The Arrow and the Map of Literary Historiography” – review of Hamutal Bar Yossef’s The Russian Context of Hebrew Literature and Lilah Nethanel’s Shneur, Katharsis: A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 37 (2022), 18–30. (Hebrew).
  • “Introduction” to Bakhtin’s The Work of François Rabelais and the Folk Culture of the Middle Ages (Hebrew), Ho: Literary Journal 23 (2022), 23–24. (Hebrew).
  • “Literature, Longing for the Messiah,” Ho: Literary Journal 20 (2020), 95–97. (Hebrew).
  • “The Criticism of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of Criticism” – review of Shimrit Peled’s The Israeli Sovereign: The Novel and the Discourse 1967–1973, Mehkarei Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature), Vol. 28 (2016), 249–254. (Hebrew).
  • “Who are you Y. H. Brenner, Modernist Author or Modern Saint?” – review of Anita Shapira’s Brenner: A Life, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, December 2015.
  • “The Essay in Literature, The Essay in Cinema: Chronicles of Destruction,” Takriv (Close-Up: Online Magazine for Discussion and Critique of Documentary Film), January 2015. (Hebrew).