Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is professor emerita of comparative literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and lives part-time in New Hampshire with her husband, Bernard Avishai. Her most recent publication is the National Jewish Book Award-winning Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
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