Tamar
Hess
Tamar Hess
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow
Research Topic
Reading Contradictions in Contemporary Israeli Religious Zionist Literature
Bio
Tamar Hess teaches modern Hebrew literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include feminist and gender conscious readings of literature, modern Hebrew poetry and fiction, and literature within historical, social, and ethnic contexts. She is a member of the editorial board of Prooftexts and chaired the Agnon Prize in Hebrew Fiction committee in 2024.
Hess received her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Selected publications
- Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography (Brandeis University Press, 2016).
- Edited with H. Tsamir, Papers on Dahlia Ravikovitch (Hebrew; Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2011).
