Efraim Sicher

Efraim Sicher is an Israeli literary scholar. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University and now teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Among other subjects, his specializations include modern Jewish culture and Holocaust literature. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including several works on the Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel. He edited the Penguin Classics edition of Babel's short story collection Red Cavalry.^[1]

Selected works[]

• The Holocaust Novel
• Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century (editor)
• Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz (editor)
• Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism
• Style And Structure In The Prose Of Isaak Babel
• Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution
• Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse)
• Holocaust Novelists (Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 299)
• Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature After the Holocaust
• The Jew's Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative
• Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity

References[]