Nancy
E.
Berg
Research Topic
‘Ana B’koaḥ’: Mizrahi Women Writers and Contemporary Jewish Culture
Bio
Nancy E. Berg is a professor of Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. While much of her scholarship focuses on the literature of Iraqi Jews, she also explores Israeli women’s writing, memory, and food. She coedited the National Jewish Book Award-winning What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (University of Washington Press, 2018) with Nancy Sinkoff. Her latest collaboration, edited with Dina Danon, is Longing and Belonging: Jews of the Modern Islamic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) a volume that evolved from their 2018–2019 fellowship at the Katz Center.
Berg earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected publications
- Exile and the Jews, edited with M. Saperstein (JPS and University of Nebraska Press, 2024).
- “Paper Trail,” Jewish Quarterly Review 114.4 (2024): 479–84.
- “The Jewish Arab Novelist,” New Line Media (2024): 4–11.
