Research

Dr. Svetlana Natkovich

Postdoc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

From 2014 to 2016 at the Dubnow Institute as a Research Associate, funded by the Minerva Foundation.

Completed Research Project

Fragwürdige Menschen. Zur Konstruktion des modernen jüdischen Selbstbildes in der Literatur russisch-jüdischer Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts

Selected Publications

Among Radiant Clouds. The Literature of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky in Its Social Context, Jerusalem: Magnes 2015 (Heb.).

Questionable People. The Figure of the Criminal in the Literature of Russian-Jewish Authors, 1862–1884, in: Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts/Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 14 (2015), 29–57.

Elisha Ben Abuya, The Hebrew Fast. On the First Hebrew Translation of »Faust« within the Setting of the Maskilic Change in Self-Perception, in: Naharaim 8 (2014), no. 1, 48–73.

The Debate about the Jews and Russian Literature (1908) as a Milestone in the History of Theorization of Jewish Literatures, in: Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 22 (2014), no. 1–2, 471–483.

»Bezdna« Andreeva v Tolkovanii Jabotinskogo [Der Kommentar Jabotinskys zu Leonid Andreevs »Abgrund«. Über Nationalmythen und Männlichkeits­repräsentationen], in: Lazar Fleishman et al. (eds.), Russian Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky and Russia, Stanford, Calif., 2013, 114–128 (Russ.).

Ben Abuya, Spinoza ve-Acosta. Mi dmuyot liminaliyot le giborey mofet shel ha-haskala [Ben Abuya, Spinoza und Acosta. Von Randfiguren zu exemplarischen Helden der jüdischen Aufklärung], in: Zehuyot 2 (2012), 55–71 (Heb.).