Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores the intersection of politics and poetry in her book "Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center," analyzing five key Jewish texts to offer a deep understanding of Jerusalem as both a physical location and a symbol.

In her book "Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center," Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi examines five important Jewish texts to explore the multifaceted significance of Jerusalem as both a physical and symbolic place.

In his new biography, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said," Timothy Brennan examines the various facets of Edward Said, a renowned Palestinian-American scholar and public figure, who was also Brennan's former PhD advisor.

Timothy Brennan, a professor at the University of Minnesota, has authored a biography on Edward Said, a celebrated Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual, who was also Brennan's former PhD advisor at Columbia University.

In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Marine Rhyme: A Study in Comparative Literature" by Yaakov Jaffe, the essay explores comparative literature by analyzing two texts, the Biblical Shirat Ha-Yam (The Song of the Sea) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which both deal with human interaction with the supernatural in water.

In Beth Kissileff's novel "Questioning Return," Wendy Goldberg, a doctoral student in Jerusalem, explores the lives of newly religious American Jews in Israel, delving into the complexities of their identities.

Benjamin Harshav, a renowned scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, passed away at 86, leaving a significant legacy in literary studies.