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Department email: romance.studies@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Secretary: Ms. Dina Belostotsky
Room 45404, Office hours: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00-13:00
Tel: 02-5883616
dinab@savion.huji.ac.il

Department Chair: Dr. Yona Hanhart-Marmor
yona.hanhart-marmor@mail.huji.ac.il

 

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Yona Hanhart-Marmor

Dr. Yona Hanhart-Marmor

Department Chair
02-58883957
yona.hanhart-marmor@mail.huji.ac.il
Room 6816, Office hours: Monday, 12:00-14:00

 

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Dr. Yona Hanhart-Marmor is the author of two books, Des pouvoirs de l’ekphrasis (Rodopi, 2014) and Pierre Michon: une écriture oblique (Septentrion, 2020). Her current research focuses on investigative narratives by French writers and filmmakers of the post-Holocaust third generation, examining how the ambivalences, contradictions, and aporias of a dual Jewish and French identity emerge in these works. Her research also explores the intersection between Holocaust studies and gender studies, delving into how memory and gender identity are interrogated and intricately woven within these narratives.

Dr. Hanhart-Marmor also conducts research on Israeli television series and their adaptations into French, exploring how they reflect cultural and anthropological differences, highlighting distinct national perspectives and societal characteristics.

In her editorial work, she has co-directed two special issues centred on contemporary Holocaust inquiries, one for Europe and another for Franges. She also serves on the editorial boards of Franges and Menifa.

Her articles have been featured in leading journals, including Poetics Today, French Studies, Littérature, and Roman 20/50, where she contributes to discussions on memory, Holocaust studies, gender identity, and Jewishness in contemporary literature and media.

 

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Prof. Yoav Rinon

Prof. Yoav Rinon

yoav.rinon@mail.huji.ac.il
Yoav Rinon is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Classics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He trained in both fields at the Hebrew University where he received his Ph.D.
Yuval Tal

Dr. Yuval Tal

yuval.tal@mail.huji.ac.il

Yuval Tal is a lecturer at the Department of Romance Studies and the European Forum at the Hebrew University. Yuval is a historian of modern France and the French colonial Empire in North Africa. His research brings the history of Christians, Muslims, and Jews from across Europe and the Mediterranean into a shared analytical framework. This desegregated method allows him to bridge the divide between national and imperial histories of Europe, and bring into view sublimated ethnic premises and biases that haunt European liberal democracies.

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Yuval is currently completing his book manuscript, “The Republic Estranged: Catholics, Muslims, and Jews in Colonial Algeria.” The book shows how interactions in Algeria between Muslims, Catholics, and Jews shaped the making of the French nation-state, and argues that France’s republican project of national assimilation was predicated on the notion that only Catholic Europeans were a priori capable of becoming French.

Yuval is also working on a new research project, “The Limits of Solidarity: Ethnicity and Class Politics in the French Mediterranean, 1918-1962.” This project explores interactions between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish workers in labor unions and during strikes in the Mediterranean cities of Marseille, Algiers, and Constantine.

Yuval’s published articles include: “The ‘Latin’ Melting-Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021); “The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018); and "Jewish and Sexual Identities in the Works of George Mosse," Hayo Haya - A Young Forum for History 9 (2012).

Yuval received his PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University in 2020 and was a fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in 2021-22.

 

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Dr. Gur Zak

Prof. Gur Zak

gur.zak@mail.huji.ac.il
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Gur Zak is a senior lecturer who completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2008. His primary research interest lies in the interrelations between literature and ethics in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
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His first book, Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self, was published by Cambridge UP in 2010. His second book is entitled Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature. His current research project deals with literary, philosophical, and theological attitudes to compassion in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He has published articles on medieval and Renaissance literature in journals such as Speculum, MLN, and I Tatti Studies, and have contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. Besides his work on Italian Renaissance Literature, he is also interested in the history of autobiography from antiquity to the present and contemporary theories of affects.  
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