Prof. Roman Katsman
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Bio:
Born in 1969 in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
Repatriated to Israel in 1990.
Studied and achieved Ph.D. degree in Bar-Ilan University in 1999.
Married and has two children - Anna and Eli.
Academic positions:
Full Professor, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University, 2016-
Head of Department, 2014-2017
Associate Professor, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University, 2012-2016
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University, 2003-2012
Lecturer, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University, 2000-2003
Courses
Philosophy of History in Agnon’s Works
A History of Aesthetics
History and Myth: The Work of Agnon
Rhetoric and Sincerity in Agnon
Languages of the Modern Literature
Body, Myth, City: From Yaakov Steinberg to Etgar Keret
Gestures Poetics in the Modern Literature
A Theory of Poetry
Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Chaim Hazaz
Publications
Books
The Sublime Lightness of Creation. Next Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature. (In Russian). Series: Contemporary Western Rusistika. Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press; St-Petersburg: BiblioRossika, 2021.
Elusive Reality: A Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature (1920-2020). (In Russian). Series: Contemporary Western Rusistika. Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press; St-Petersburg: BiblioRossika, 2020.
Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon. (In Hebrew). Jerusalem: Magness Press, 2018.
Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel. Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
‘A Small Prophecy’: Sincerity and Rhetoric in Ir u-meloa by S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2013.
At the Other End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature, Begengung/פגישה: Jüdische Studien, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2008.
Poetics of Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and Slavic Literature, Heidelberg University Publications in Slavistics, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2005.
The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon, Heidelberg University Publications in Slavistics, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2002.
Edited books
Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature / Ocherki po istorii russko-izrailskoi literatury. Ed. by Roman Katsman and Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2033 (in 2 parallel volumes – in English and Russian).
The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday. Edited by Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer, and Klavdia Smola. Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Around the Point: Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages, ed. by Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman, and Ber Kotlerman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Selected articles
Katsman, Roman. Poetics of Twenty-First-Century Russian-Language Fiction about the Shoah. Teksty drugie #1, 2024, pp. 143-158.
Katsman, Roman. Russko-izrailskaya literatura i “chudovishchnyi dvoynik” (Russian-Israeli Literature and the “Monstrous Double”), Iudaica Russica, 2 (11), 2023, pp. 1-24.
Katsman, Roman. “The Problem of sincerity and insincerity in Literature”, Iudaica Russica, 1 (6), 2021, pp. 131-146.
Liberation of Speech. Preface. In: Semion Kraitman, ...again about gothic. St-Petersburg: Gelikon Plus, 2021, pp. 3-10. «Освобожденье речи». Предисловие // Семен Крайтман. «…снова о готике». СПб.: Геликон Плюс, 2021. С. 3-10.
Enoch Passion. “Mozgovoy” by Mikhail Yudson. (in Russian) Страсти по Еноху: «Мозговой» Михаила Юдсона. Artikl 47 (15). https://sunround.com/article/?page_id=2762
‘The Nonconformist Poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov,’ in The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday. Edited by Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer, and Klavdia Smola. Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021, pp. 25-58.
‘Until it opens’ (in Polish). “Dopóki się nie otworzy,” trans. Alicja Mrózek. In Z Rosji do Izraela 2. (From Russia to Israel 2). Eds. Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek and Agnieszka Lenart. Biblioteka Przegladu Rusycystycznego, no. 34. Ed. Piotr Fast. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2020, pp. 5-8.
Хазан В., Кацман Р., Жуховицкая Л.Г. «…Я был бы счастлив найти свое маленькое местечко в русской литературе…»: Письма Авраама Высоцкого Максиму Горькому // Литературный факт. 2020. № 1 (15). С. 115–174. DOI 10.22455/2541-8297-2020-15-115-174
The Hebrew Poetry of the Younger Generation of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel. Part 1: Alex Rif, Nadia-Adina Rose. Iudaica Russica, # 4, 2020. P. 18-39. DOI 10.31261/IR.2020.04.02.
Khazan, Vladimir, Roman Katsman, “’Your Masterful Quill, a Lot of Heart’: From the Correspondence between Avraam Vysotsky and Georgy Grebenshchikov,” (in Russian), The Altay Text in Russian Culture. Vol. 8. Ed. M. P. Grebneva, T. V. Chernyshova. Barnaul: Barnaul University Press, 2019, 113-145. Хазан Владимир, Кацман Роман. «…Перо Ваше умелое, много сердца»: Из переписки Авраама Высоцкого и Георгия Гребенщикова // Алтайский текст в русской культуре: Сб. статей. Вып. 8 / Под ред. М.П. Гребневой, Т.В. Чернышевой. Барнаул: Изд-во Алтайского университета, 2019. С. 113-145.
“Love a Word”: Conversation with Yakov Shechter (in Russian). Iudaica Russica 1:2 (2019), pp. 130-142. Полюбите слово. Беседа с Яковом Шехтером о книгах «Второе пришествие кумранского учителя» и «Самоучитель каббалы».
Sacramental Wish. Заветное желание. Review of: Елизавета Михайличенко и Юрий Несис, Talitha kumi, или Завет меж осколками бутылки. Роман. 2018. Iudaica Russica 1:1 (2018), pp. 114-118.
“The Other Existence. Review of: Некод Зингер, «Мандрагоры. Роман» (Salamandra, 2017)” (in Russian). Artikl, 9 (2018), pp. 329-331.
Katsman, Roman, and Benjamin Frankel. “Shmuel Yosef Agnon.” Oxford Bibliographies. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0180.xml#obo-9780199840731-0180-div1-0002. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199840731-0180
‘A Live Life Prefers Three Dots’ (in Russian) (Живая жизнь предпочитает многоточие). Artikl, 8 (2018), pp. 290-297.
‘A Live Life Prefers Three Dots. A Foreword’ (in Polish). “Żywe życie woli wielokropek,” przełożyła Alicja Mrózek. In Z Rosji do Izraela: Opowidania (From Russia to Israel. Stories). Wybór i opracowanie Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek and Agnieszka Lenart. Biblioteka Przegladu Rusycystycznego, no. 28. Ed. Piotr Fast. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2018, pp. 5-11.
‘Dennis Sobolev’, Encyclopedia Judaica Online. Ed. by Asa Kasher. Schoken Publishing, forthcoming.
‘Mikhail Yudson’, Encyclopedia Judaica Online. Ed. by Asa Kasher. Schoken Publishing, forthcoming.
‘Alexander Goldstein’, Encyclopedia Judaica Online. Ed. by Asa Kasher. Schoken Publishing, forthcoming.
‘Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis’, Encyclopedia Judaica Online. Ed. by Asa Kasher. Schoken Publishing, forthcoming.
‘Alex Epstein’, Encyclopedia Judaica Online. Ed. by Asa Kasher. Schoken Publishing, forthcoming.
Katsman, Roman; Frankel, Benjamin. “Shmuel Yosef Agnon.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199840731-0180
Crisis of the Victimary Paradigm in Contemporary Russian Literature in Israel (An applied case study of Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology), Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, XXIV, no. 1 Fall 2018. http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2401/2401katsman/
The First Shall Be the Last: Rethinking Antisemitism by Adam Katz and Eric Gans (review), Shofar, 36.2 (2018), pp. 80-83.
Krizis viktimnoj paradigmy. Sluchaj noveishej russko-izrailskoj literatury (Crisis of Victimary Paradigm. A Case of Russian Literature in Israel), a new version, in Russian, Artikl, 7 (2018), pp. 306-325.
За завесой бытия: К вопросу о природе смеха в рассказах И. Бабеля. Iudaica Russica, 2 (3), 2019, 20-40.
A Journey to the Land Zeka: The Poetic Enigma of J. Margolin (in Russian), Slavia Orientalis, LXVII, no. 4 (2018), pp. 611-629. http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/125402/edition/109426/content
DOI 10.24425/slo.2018.125402
Realism-4.0: Israeli Russophone Literature Today, Iudaica Russica, 1:2 (2019), pp. 5-22. ORCID 0000-0003-0607-8047. http://www.iudaicarussica.us.edu.pl/
A Song of a Mole. Review of: Dennis Sobolev, Tropy (Тропы), 2017. Artikl’, no. 6 (2018), pp. 275-280.
“My Thought Is Hungry”: The Hebrew Poetry of Gali-Dana Singer (in Hebrew), The Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, 31 (2020), pp. 565-601.
“What Did the Reality Respond To”: Review of the Journal Dvoetochie, no. 27 (Summer 2017), (in Russian), Artikl’, no. 5 (2017), pp. 250-254.
http://www.sunround.com/club/journals/37kazman.htm
A Pronounced Thought, or Is Avant-garde Possible after Avant-garde? Review of a new book by Gali-Dana Singer “Vzmakh i vzmakh”, (in Russian), Artikl, no. 4 (2017), pp. 314-319.
“Freakish Sacrifices”: The Problem of Victimhood in Alexander Goldstein’s Novel Quiet Fields (in Russian). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New literary observer), 150 (2/2018), pp. 271-289.
How Is Myth Possible? The Question of Shaping of the Historical-Personalistic Conception of Myth (Matvei Kagan and Mikhail Gershenson, 1919-1922) (in Russian), Issledovaniia po istorii russkoj mysli (Studies in Russian Intellectual History), 2017, pp. 513-538.
Fearless Vulnerability of Nonconformism (I. Gabay, M. Grobman, G. Sapgir) (in Russian), Toronto Slavic Quarterly, # 59 (2017).
http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/59/index_59.shtml
‘Parallelnye vselennye Davida Shraera-Petrova’ (The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov), Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 79 (2017), pp. 255-279.
‘Krizis viktimnoj paradigmy. Sluchaj noveishej russko-izrailskoj literatury’ (Crisis of Victimary Paradigm. A Case of Russian Literature in Israel). In RUSYCYSTYCZNE STUDIA LITERATUROZNAWCZE, # 27: Russian Literature and the Jewish Question, ed. Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek and Agnieszka Lenart. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2017, pp. 9-28.
Philosophy of Freedom in the Novel by Dennis Sobolev Jerusalem (in Russian), Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 62:2 (2017), pp. 459-474.
Learning to walk. On the book by D. Sobolev “Legends of the mount Carmel” (in Russian), Neva (St.-Petersburg), no. 5 (2017), pp. 217-220.
Stam: The Unbearable Lightness of Banality, or On the Nature of Etgar Keret’s Humor, Ben-Gurion University Review, Winter 2018. http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/heksherim/BGU%20Review%202018/Roman-Katsman-BGUR.pdf
Jewish fearless speech: towards a definition of Soviet Jewish nonconformism (F. Gorenshtein, F. Roziner, D. Shrayer-Petrov), East European Jewish Affairs, 48 (1), 2018, pp. 41-55.
‘The Blue Altay: The Unknown Manuscripts of Avraam Vysotsky and the Genesis of the Novel Saturday and Sunday,’ (in Russian), Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 56 (Spring 2016).
Roman-khaos. Alexander Goldshtein (A Novel-Chaos. Alexander Goldshtein), in Russian, Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (2019), pp. 63-79.
Jerusalem: A Dissipative Novel by Dennis Sobolev (in Russian), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New literary review), 143 (1/2017), pp. 291-312.
‘Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: Neoeclectism And Beyond’, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 70:2, 2016, pp. 66-79.
‘Tahapukhot hazman: Agnon of the Beginning of Enlightenment in Galicia in Ir umeloa,’ (in Hebrew), Collection on Jewish Enlightenment in Galicia, ed. Nathan Shifris, Shmuel Feiner and Chanan Gafni, Magnes Press, 15 pp., in press.
‘Books and Scripts as Symbols of Laughter in the Works of Agnon,’ (in Hebrew), The Thought of Book: Studies in Jewish Literatures in Honor of Avidov Lipsker. Ed. Igal Schwartz, Lilakh Netanel, Claudia Rosentzweig, Rona Tausinger. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 239-256. מחשבת הספר
“The Parable and Its Lesson” by S. Y. Agnon and the Thinking of Historical Alternativeness, (in Hebrew), Mikan, 17 (2017), pp. 340-356.
‘Network and Sacrifice in the Novel I/e_rus.olim by Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis,’ Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 54 (2015), pp. 27-49.
‘Eric Gans’ Thinking of Origin, Culture, and of the Jewish Question vis-a-vis Hermann Cohen’s Heritage,’ Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 23, 2015, pp. 236-255.
‘Kotesh Grisin: The Alternative History of Agnon (‘Ha-mevakshim lahem rav,’ Ir u-Meloa),’ (in Hebrew), Dappim le-Mekhkar be-Sifrut, 19, 2014, pp. 7-43.
‘The Speech of Yakov Maze in Honor of Hermann Cohen,’ (in Russian), translation and preface by Roman Katsman, in Issledovaniya po istorii russkoy mysli, vol. 10, Edited by Modest A. Kolerov and Nikolay S. Plotnikov, Moscow, Modest Kolerov, 2014, pp. 465-478.
‘Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago in the Eyes of the Israeli Writers and Intellectuals (A Minimal Foundation of Multilingual Jewish Philology),’ in Around the Point: Studies in Jewish Multilingual Literature, ed. Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman, Ber Kotlerman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 643-686.
‘Etgar Keret: The Minimal Metaphysical Origin.’ Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 67, 2013, pp. 189-204.
‘Jewish Traditions: Active Gestural Practices in Religious Life,’ Body-Language-Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction, ed. by Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill, Sedinha Tessendorf. Series of Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Sciences. Berlin-New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 320-329.
‘Mordecai at the King’s Gate: A Few Introductory Remarks to Matvei Kagan’s ‘Vom Begriff der Geschichte’ (On the Concept of History),’ in Eastern European Jewish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics. Ed. by Klavdia Smola. Series: Die Welt der Slaven. München – Berlin – Washington/D.C., Verlag Otto Sagner, 2013, pp. 403-406.
(As editor): "Matvej Kagan. "Vom Begriff der Geschichte." Briefe: Simon Gulko – Matvej Kagan." In: Eastern European Jewish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics. Series: Die Welt der Slaven. Ed. by Klavdia Smola. München – Berlin – Washington/D.C., Verlag Otto Sagner, 2013, pp. 406-432.
‘Miracle, Sincerity and Rhetoric in the Writing of S.Y. Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Ma’ase Sippur: Studies in Jewish Prose, vol. 3, ed. by Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky, Ramat-Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 2013, pp. 307-332.
‘Matvei Kagan: Judaism and the European Cultural Crisis,’ Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, 21 (2013), pp. 73-103.
‘Love and Bewilderment: Matvei Kagan’s Literary Critical Concepts,’ Partial Answers. Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 11:1 (2013), pp. 9-28.
‘Sincerity, Rhetoric and Representation of Miracle in Literature’ (in Hebrew), Mi’kan 12 (2012), pp. 126-143.
(With Ber Kotlerman), ‘Mordechai Nisan Kagan: Peretz un di folks-mytologie’ (Peretz and Mythology), Les Cahiers yiddish / Yidishe Heftn 168, 2012, pp. 3-7.
‘Cultural Rhetoric, Generative Anthropology, and Narrative Conflict,’ Anthropoetics 17, no. 2 (2012).
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1702/1702Katsman.htm
(With Ber Kotlerman), ‘Mordechai Nisan Kagan (Matvei Isaevich Kagan): Der Fargesener Russish-Yidisher Neo-Kantianer,’ preface to: Matvei Kagan, ‘Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev,’ (in Yiddish), Yerushalaimer Almanac 29 (2012), pp. 433-442.
’The Unrealized Cantors: The Community Rhetoric of S. Y. Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Ayin Gimel: A Journal of Agnon Studies, vol. 2, 2012, pp. 131-137.
http://www.biu.ac.il/js/li/aj/ISSUE-02/articles/kastman.pdf
‘From Buchach to Talpiot: On the Book of Dan Laor S. Y. Agnon (2008)’, (in Hebrew), Cathedra, 140, 2011, pp. 180-183.
‘The Brit of Historical Remembrance’ (in Hebrew), Zmanim, , 116, 2011, pp. 111- 113.
‘S.Y. Agnon’s Community Rhetoric: The heroism and crisis of power in two tales of gabbais (treasurers) from ‘Ir U-meloah (The City and All it Has in It)’, Hebrew Studies, 52, 2011, pp. 363-378.
‘To Read by Body: Gesture Studies in Culture and Literature’ (in Hebrew), Ma’ase Sippur: Studies in Jewish Prose, vol. 2, ed. by Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky, Bar Ilan University Press, 2009, pp. 373-404.
‘Gesture in Literature: Cognitive Processing and Cultural Semiosis (Case Study in Agnon’s Stories)’, (in Hebrew), The Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, 22 (2008), pp. 407-436.
‘The Problem of Spontaneous Gestures in the Bible. A Case Study of Gestural Poetics’, (in Hebrew), Mikan 9 (2008), pp. 80-96.
‘An Invisible Gesture of A Jester: Body and Machine in The Idiot by F.M. Dostoevsky’, Toronto Slavic Quarterly 26 (2008), http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/26/index26.shtml.
‘Poetics of Gestures in the Writing of Milorad Pavic (Dictionary of Khazars)’ (in Hebrew), Dappim: Research in Literature 16-17, 2007-2008 , pp. 383-400.
‘Gestures Accompanying Torah Learning/Recital Among Yemenite Jews’, Gesture: The International Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gestures and Nonverbal Communication (John Benjamins Publishing), 7:1 (2007), pp. 1-19.
‘The Dance of Myths: Mythopoesis and Narrative Ethics’, (in Hebrew), Ma’ase Sippur: Studies in Jewish Prose, vol. 1, ed. by Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky, Bar Ilan University Press, 2005, pp. 431-446.
‘Anthropoetic Gesture. A Key to Milorad Pavić’s Poetics (Landscape Painted with Tea)’, Toronto Slavic Quarterly 12 (2005),
http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/12/katsman12.shtml.
‘The Memory of the Body: The Novel-Myth by Meir Shalev Be’veito Be’midbar’, (in Hebrew), Dappim: Research in Literature, vol. 14-15, 2005, pp. 269-291.
‘Personality, Ethics and Ideology in the Postmodern Mythopoesis by Etgar Keret’ (in Hebrew), Mi’kan, 4 (January 2005), pp. 20-41.
‘The Myth of Myth-Creation in Ido ve-Eynam by Agnon’, (in Hebrew), Criticism & Interpretation (Bar Ilan University), 35-36 (2002), pp. 231-245.
‘The Miracle of Literature: An Ethical-Aesthetical Theory of Mythopoesis’, Analecta Husserliana LXXV (2002), pp. 211-231.
‘Personal-Historical Conception of Myth in Forevermore by Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Alei-Siah 45 (Summer 2001), pp. 53-63.
‘Generative Anthropology in the Works by Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Proceedings of the 13 Congress of the World Union for Jewish Studies, 2001, http://www.lekket.com/articles/003000088.pdf.
‘Dostoevsky’s A Raw Youth: Mythopoesis as the Dialectics of Absence and Presence’, The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review 1 (2000), pp. 85-95.
‘Crime and Punishment: Face to Face’ (in Russian), Dostoevsky i mirovaja kultura/Dostoevsky and the World Culture, N. 12 (1999), pp. 165-176.
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