Galili Shahar - Curriculum Vitae#
Full Professor of Comparative Literature
The Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair for German Literature
The Department of Literature, The School of Cultural Studies
Tel Aviv University
Chairman, The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture, Jerusalem
Graduate Studies
- 1994 - 1996 The Institute for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (MA)
- 1996 - 2000 Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin Germany/School of History, Tel Aviv University (PhD)
Research Fellowships
- 2000-2003: Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2004-2005: The Franz Rosenzweig Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2006-2007: Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2009-2010: The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Summer 2022: Institut für Romanische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2023-2024: Das Selma Stern Zentrum für jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/Das Historische Seminar, Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Major Research Grants
- 1998 - 1999 Scholarship for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University
- 2000 - 2001 The Rothschild Research Grant
- 2001 - 2003 DAAD Research Fellowship
- 2004 - 2006 The Franz Rosenzweig Research Grant, The Hebrew University
- 2006 - 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
- 2012 - 2015 The Israel Science Foundation, Research Grant
- 2014 - 2019 The Marie Curie Career Research Fund
- 2015 - 2020 The Minerva Foundation Research Fund
- 2017 - 2022 Yad Hanadiv Funding for the Program of Arab-Jewish Studies
Academic Appointments
- 2003 - 2006 Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2007 - 2010 Professor of German Studies, University of Florida
- 2010 - present Professor of Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University
- 2013 - 2020 Chair, The Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University
- 2017 - 2022 Head, the Arab-Jewish Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
- 2019 - 2023 Chair, The School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University
- 2020 - present Chair, The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture, Jerusalem
- October 2024-Februray 2025 Guest Professor, Ludwig Maxmilan University Munich
List of Publications (selection)
Books
1. Galili Shahar, Verkleidungen der Aufklärung: Narrenspiele und Weltanschauung in der Goethezeit, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006, 229pp.
2. Galili Shahar, theatrum judaicum. Denkspiele im deutsch-jüdischen Diskurs der Moderne, Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2007, 342pp.
3. Galili Shahar, Kafka’s Wound, Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, 2008.
4. Galili Shahar, The Remnants of Revelation: The Law, the Body and the Question of Literature, Mossad Bialik, 2010, 115pp.
5. Galili Shahar, Bodies and Names: Reading in Modern Jewish Literature, Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishing House, 2015, 415pp.
6. Galili Shahar, The Stone and the Word: On Paul Celan's Poetry, Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 2019, 254 pp.
7. Galili Shahar, Der Stern, ein Narr, das Gebet. Zur Dialektik der Tradition bei Benjamin, Rosenzweig und Kafka, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021.
Edited Books
1. Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald Between Literature and History, Jerusalem: The Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 2010 (Hebrew) (Coeditor with Michal Ben-Horin).
2. History and its Discontent: Between Germany and Israel. Festschrift for Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2010 (Hebrew) (Coeditor with Boaz Neumann and Roni Hirsch).
3. Walter Benjamin: Critique and Illuminations (Selected Writings on Theater and Literature), Tel Aviv: Resling, 2014
4. Gershom Scholem: Thought under the Sign of Lament, Jerusalem: Carmel, 2015.
5. Texturen des Kriegs (Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015
6. Deutsche Offiziere, (Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016
7. Der Oreint: Imaginationen in deutscher Sprache (with Yosef Schwartz and Lena Salaymeh)(Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017
8. Geschichte und Representation (Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018.
9. Karl Löwith, Welt, Geschichte und Deutung (with Felix Steilen) (Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019.
10. Erich Auerbach: Literature and the Last Day (Selected Writings on European Literature), Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 2019.
11. Paul Celan: Gegenlichter: Prose from his Nachlass, Hakibbuz Hamehuchad, 2020.
12. Disseminating Jewish Literatures: Knowledge, Research, Curricula (with Zepp, Fine, Gordinsky, Konuk, Olk), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
13. Made in Germany: Tecnologie, Geschichte und Literatur in Deutschland (Coedited with Sagi Schaefer and Shaul Katzir) (Das Jahrbuch des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte an der Tel Aviv Universität), Wallstein Verlag, 2020
Articles (selection)
1. Galili Shahar, The Enlightenment: Clown’s Point of View, Historia (7), 2001, 19-50 (Hebrew).
2. Galili Shahar, Identity of Nomads: Jews and the German Theatre, Zmanim (80), 2002, -17 (Hebrew).
3. Galili Shahar, TheaterAvantgarde in Deutschland, jüdische Figuren des Wanderers. Stereotypen, Humor und Selbstinszenierung, Forum Modernes Theater, (18/1), 2003, 35-54.
4. Galili Shahar, Der Erzähler auf der Galerie: Franz Kafka und die dramaturgische Figur, Die Weimarer Beiträge, (4), 2003, 516-533.
5. Galili Shahar, Ein Spielender Körper: der „Ostjude“ und das Theater in Deutschland, transversal (4), 2003, 35-50.
6. Galili Shahar, Das Spiel, der Schein, die Frage nach der jüdischen Identität, in: Christopher Balme, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Stephan Grötzel (Eds.), Theater als Paradigma der Moderne. Tübingen/ Basel: Franke Verlag, 2003, 267-276.
7. Galili Shahar, "Die Unheilige Sprache: Versuch über die neue israelische Literatur", in: Hiltrud Wallenborn, Michal Kümper, Anna Lipphardt, Jens Neumann, Johannes Schwatz, Maria Vassilikou (Eds.), Der Ort des Judentum in der Gegenwart 1989-2002, Berlin: Be.Bra Wissenschaft Verlag, 2004, 205-222.
8. Galili Shahar, "The Jewish Actor and the Theatre of Modernism in Germany", Theatre Research International (29/3), 2004, 216-231.
9. Galili Shahar, "Figurations of Unheimlichkeit: Homelessness and Identities of “Jews” in Sebald, Maron and Honigmann", Gegenwartsliteratur. Yearbook on Contemporary German Literature (3), 2004, 28-45.
10. Galili Shahar, "Franz Kafka: Play, Script, Identity", Alpaim (26), 2004, 213-246 (Hebrew).
11. Galili Shahar, "Guilt, Self-Hated and Other Jewish “Neurosis”", Zmanim (88), 2004, 26-34 (Hebrew).
12. Galili Shahar, The Emigrants and the Storyteller: W. G. Sebald, Moznaim (78:1), 2004, 58-60 (Hebrew).
13. Galili Shahar, Holzwege: The Stories of Ida Fink, Moznaim (79:3), 2005, 41-43 (Hebrew).
14. Galili Shahar, Die Reise und die Schrift. Über Goethe, Kafka und das Reisetagebuch, in: Arnold Groh (Ed.), beWEGung. Perspektiven auf Reisen und Ortswechsel, Berlin: Weidler, 2005, 113-129.
15. Galili Shahar, Kafka in Israel, in: Atef Botrus (Ed.), Der Nahe Osten – Ein Teil Europas: Reflektionen zu Raum- und Kulturkonzeptionen im modernen Nahen Osten, Würzburg: Verlag Ergon, 2006, 253-262.
16. Galili Shahar, The Cry of Philoctetes: The Wounded Body and the Question of Representation, representaciones (3), 2007, 49-63.
17. Galili Shahar, Fragments and Wounded Bodies: Kafka after Kleist, The German Quarterly (80), 2008, 449-467.
18. Galili Shahar, The Sacred and the Unfamiliar: Gershom Scholem and the Anxieties of the New Hebrew, Germanic Review (83:3), 2008, 299-320.
19. Galili Shahar, Franz Kafka und Max Brod, in: Oliver Jahraus and Bettina von Jagow (Eds.), Franz Kafka. Leben-Werk-Wirkung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008 (With Michal Ben-Horin), 85-96.
20. Galili Shahar, Zeit und Wunden, in: Arnold Groh (Ed.), Was ist Zeit?, Berlin: Weidler, 2008, 205-220.
21. Galili Shahar, The Theological Machine, Zmanim (103), 2008, 74-83 (Hebrew).
22. Galili Shahar, Allegories of Sacredness, Bikoret ve Parshanut (43), 2010, 167-192.
23. Galili Shahar, W.G. Sebald: Literature or the Natural History of Destruction, in: Galili Shahar and Michal Ben Horin (Eds.), Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald Between Literature and History, Jerusalem: The Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 2010, 9-22.
24. Galili Shahar, The Confusion of Emotions: Violence, Desire and the Political Body in Heinrich von Kleist, Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History (37), 2010, 151-168.
25. Galili Shahar, „Wunden als Zeitzeichen“, Zeitschrift für Semiotik. 32 (2010), 175-189.
26. Galili Shahar, The Poetics of the Wounded Body, OT (1), 2011, 7-37.
27. Galili Shahar, Fragments of Tradition: Modernism and German Jewish Literature, The Brown Lectures Series, Bar Ilan University, 2011.
28. Galili Shahar, Anecdote form the Recent War: Body, Violence and Historical Irony in Heinrich von Kleist, in: Galili Shahar, Boaz Neuman, Roni Hirsch (Eds.), History and its Discontent: Between German and Jews, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2011.
29. Galili Shahar, Anecdotes, War and the Backsides of Reason: Kleist with Kant, Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson (Eds.), Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth Century Germany, 1756-1815, Camden House, 2011, 103-125.
30. Galili Shahar, Auerbach's Scars: Judaism and the Question of Literature, Jewish Quarterly Review (101/4), 2011, 604-630.
31. Galili Shahar, "A Third Reading”: The German, the Hebrew and (the Arab), Prooftexts A Journal of Jewish Literary History (33), 2013, 133-139.
32. Galili Shahar, "The Beggars", OT (3), 2013, 95-118.
33. Galili Shahar, Auerbachs Narben. Der Monotheismus und die Frage der Literatur, in: Nicolas Berg, Dieter Burdorf (Eds.), Textgelehrte: Literaturwissenschaft und literarisches Wissen im Umkreis der Kritischen Theorie, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2013.
34. Galili Shahar, Jude sein, Araber sein. Gedanke von den deutschen Grenzen zu Sohars Reise von Barbara Honigmann, in: Amir Eshel and Yfaat Weiss (Eds.), Kurz hinter der Wahrheit und dicht neben der Lüge, München: Fink Verlag, 2013, 199-214.
35. Galili Shahar, The Tale of the King’s Daughter. Exile, the Soul, and the Question of Literature, in: Hans Otto Horch, Karin Neuburger, Hanni Mittelmann (Eds.), Exilerfahrung und Konstruktionen von Identität 1933 bis 1945, De Gruyter, 2013, 109-118.
36. Galili Shahar, The Engel, the Names, the Question of Poetry: Walter Benjamin and the Paradox of Tradition, Me'kan (14), 2014, 120-142.
37. Galili Shahar and Lina Barouch, “Introduction: Arie Ludwig Strauss Between Hölderlin and Yehuda Halevi”, Naharaim 8(2), 2014, 246–252.
38. Galili Shahar, Written Names: On Erez Bitton's Poetry, Ana min al maghrib. Readings in Erez Bitton's Poetry, Kibbutz Hamuchad, 2014.
39. Galili Shahar, In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's Agesilaus Santander, in: Ethan Katz and Ari Joskovicz (Eds.). Secularism and Its Discontents: The View from Jewish Studies, Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
40. Galili Shahar, Silent Syllable: On Franz Rosenzweig's Translation of Yehuda Halevi's Liturgical Poems, in: Ilit Ferber and Paula Schwabel (Eds.), Lament in Jewish Thought, De Gruyter, 2015.
41. Galili Shahar, Ring/Ding - Objekt, Kunstwerk und Machtrepräsentanz bei Lessing und Wagner, Jose Brünner (Ed.), Erzählte Dinge. Mensch-Objekt-Beziehungen in der deutschen Literatur, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015.
42. Galili Shahar, Eden: A Listening. Reading Celan After Szondi, in: Susanne Zepp (Ed.), Textual Understanding and Historical Experience, Fink Verlag, 2015, 89-102.
43. Galili Shahar, The Alarm Clock: The Times of Gregor Samsa, Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska (Eds.), Kafka and the Universal, De Gruyter, 2016, 257-269.
44. Galili Shahar, Franz Kafka (Writing in Motion), in: Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal (Eds.), Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made, Princeton University Press, 2016, 233-248.
45. Galili Shahar, The Eye, the Word: Celan without Hölderlin, Dapim (21), 2017, 101-121.
46. Galili Shahar, Eicha /ach: Lament and Being in Hebrew and German, in: The German-Hebrew Dialogue; Studies of Encounter and Exchange. Edited by Amir Eshel and Rachel Seelig. Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
47. Galili Shahar, The Creature, the First Question: An Essay, Naharaim - Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte 2019, 13(1-2): 3-14.
48. Galili Shahar, "Introduction: History and the Last Day", Erich Auerbach: Literature and the Last Day (Selected Writings on European Literature), Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 2019.
49. Galili Shahar, Lamentation: Poetry, Thought and Midrash, Me'kan 19, 2019, 34-58.
50. Galili Shahar, "Eurasia, Jewish Nachlässe", Aschkenas 30(2), 2020: 313–332
51. Galili Shahar, "German-Jewish Literature: An Interruption", in: Zepp, Fine, Gordinsky, Konuk, Olk & Shahar (Eds.). Disseminating Jewish Literatures Knowledge, Research, Curricula, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
52. Galili Shahar, "Die Dichtung, die Kreatur, der andere Tag. Maxim Biller im Kopf von Bruno Schulz", Kai Sina (Ed.), Im Kopf von Maxim Biller, Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 2020, 148-156.
53. Galili Shahar, "The Dialectics of Tradition: German-Jewish Studies and the Future", Diana Franklin and Gideon Reuveni (Eds.), The Future of German-Jewish Past, Purdue University Press, 2020, 87-96.
54. Galili Shahar, Hölderlin's Untergang: Poetry and Twilight, Dapim (22), 2020. 16-42.
55. Galili Shahar, "The Song of Angels", Shelomi Mualem, Abraham Elkayam (Eds.), Theopoetics, Tel Aviv: Idra, 2020, 234-262
56. Galili Shahar, "Else Lasker-Schüler: German Poetry, Hebrew Reception, Judeo-Arabic Tradition?" Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, 8 (1), 2021, 238-248.
57. Galili Shahar, Kafka’s Messages, Performance Research, 26:5, (2021), 34-38.
58. Galili Shahar, Narrentum and Being-Jewish: Kafka and Benjamin, Naharaim, 15:1. 2021, 57-72.
59. Galili Shahar, The Undying, Angelaki, 27:1, 2022, 14-25.
60. Galili Shahar, “Divine Justice, Epistemic Crisis and Storytelling”, in: Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency: Global Perspectives on Literature and Film, Taylor and Francis, 2022, 44-56.
61. Galili Shahar, “A Self-Displaced Person”: Peter Szondi, Being-Jewish, Comparative Literature”, Eurostudia, Vol. 15 (2021–2022), 1–14.
62. Galili Shahar, “Celans Fähre”, in Bernd Auerochs, Friederike Felicitas Günther, Markus May, Anne Fleig, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner (Eds.) Celan-Perspektiven 2022, Winter Verlag, 2023, 149-164.Gl
63. Galili Shahar, Goethe's Song of Songs: Reorientation, World Literature, Prooftexts, 40:1, (2023), 110-139.
64. Galili Shahar, „Umbruch, Krise, Geburt“, in: G. Dachs (Ed.), Umbrüche: Neues und Altes aus der jüdischen Welt, Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 2023, 13-26
65. Galili Shahar, "Mashber: Crisis, Birth, Hebrew Version", Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis: Interpretation, Heresy, and History, edited by Ghilad H. Shenhav, Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Gilad Sharvit, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, 15-32.
66. Galili Shahar, “Im Eselsschrei. Paul Celan, Jerusalem/Al-Quds, a Step Back”, in: Chiara Caradonna und Vivian Liska (Eds.), Zäsuren/Caesurae. Paul Celans Spätwerk, Wallstein Verlag, 2024, 189-199.
