Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

She attended Wellesley College and spent her junior year at the Hebrew University,[1] where she subsequently completed her bachelor's degree in English and Political Science (1966).

[2] In 1978, DeKoven Ezrahi was appointed head of the literature section at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University.

She is a peace activist in Israel and when the First Intifada broke out she was one of the initiators of a dialogue group in Jerusalem with Palestinian residents of Beit Sahour.

[6] In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, she took part in discussions within the new theoretical field initiated by Saul Friedlander that dared to probe the "limits of representation.

[citation needed] A version of the first half of the book was published in Hebrew as "Ipus ha-masa ha-yehudi" (Resling Press 2017).

"Shlosha Paytanim, a study of three poets of the “Sacred Quotidian”--Paul Celan, Dan Pagis and Yehuda Amichai" was published by Mossad Bialik in 2020.

[8] In many essays, but particularly in monographs on Philip Roth[9] and Grace Paley,[10] she points to the moment in the middle of the twentieth century when the barriers were lifted and the comic potential was unleashed at the intersections between modern Jewish and Christian religious imaginations.

[16] These arguments coalesce in "Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center" [Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi: Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center 2022, Chicago: University of Chicago Press] ,Awarded the National Jewish Book Award in 2023.