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David Aberbach

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David AberbachProfessor

Areas of Interest:

Hebrew and Comparative Studies

Education:

B.A. (University College, London), M.Litt., D.Phil. (Oxford University)

Academic Qualifications:

B.A. Honours, English Literature, University College, London, 1975; M.Litt., Oxford University, 1977; D.Phil., Oxford University, 1980; training in child psychotherapy, The Tavistock Clinic, London, 1979-1982; B.Sc., Social Sciences, Open University, 2000.

Current Position (since 1987):

Professor, 看片视频 University

Visiting Positions (since 1992)

2021: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

1992-1993: London University (UCL and LSE), Oxford University (Linacre College)

2001-2002: London School of Economics, Department of Sociology

2006: London School of Economics, Department of Government

2009-2014: Harvard University

2014-2018: London School of Economics, Department of International Development

2019- Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Publications:

Books:

The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas, Routledge 2021.

At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S.J. Agnon, The Littman Library and Oxford University Press, 1984.

Bialik , in Jewish Thinkers series, Arthur Hertzberg, ed. Peter Halban and Weidenfeld, London, Grove Press, U.S.A., 1988. Published in Hebrew, Yediot/Eked, 1992.

Surviving Trauma: loss, literature and psychoanalysis, Yale University Press, 1989.

Realism, Caricature and Bias: The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, The Littman Library, 1993.

Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy 750-500 BCE, Routledge, 1993. Italian translation, 1996.

Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media: Private Trauma, Public Ideals, Macmillan, 1996.

Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis, Macmillan, 1997.

The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism, (co-author), Macmillan, 2000.

Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History, Palgrave Macmillan 2003.

(Ed. and tr.) C.N. Bialik: Selected Poems, Overlook Press/Duckworth 2004.

Jewish Cultural Nationalism, Routledge, 2008.

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology, Routledge, 2013

National Poetry, Empires and War, Routledge, 2015

The Bible and the 'Holy Poor':聽from the Tanakh to聽Les Mis茅rables, Routledge, 2018

Nationalism, War, and Jewish Education: from the Roman empire to modern times, Routledge, 2019

Literature and Poverty: from the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War, Routledge 2019

Articles:

鈥楳oral Dilemmas and the Environment: The Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Industry鈥, The Journal of the Council for Research on Religion in Montreal (JCREOR), Vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 41鈥58.

鈥機harisma and Judaism鈥 in Routledge International Handbook on Charisma, 2020: 140-150.

"Bialik and Wordsworth: Poetry of Childhood" (Hebrew), Moznayim, Vol. 45, no. 2, 1977.

"Screen Memories of Freud, Bialik and Wordsworth," Midstream, October 1979.

"Freud's Jewish Problem", Commentary, June 1980.

"On Re鈥憆eading Bialik: Paradoxes of a 'National Poet'", Encounter, June 198l.

"The Lost Mother in Agnon鈥 (Hebrew), Moznayim, February/March 1982.

"Loss and Separation in Bialik and Wordsworth," Prooftexts, May 1982.

"Screen Memories of Writers," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1983) 10, 1: 47鈥62.

"Charlie Chaplin: Of Crime and Genius," Encounter, May 1983.

"Loss and Dreams," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1984) II, 4:393鈥98.

"Childlessness and the Waste Land in Bialik and T.S. Eliot," Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. 55, 1984.

"Hitler's Politics and Psychopathology," Encounter, September/October 1985.

"Grief and Mysticism," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (1987) 14:509鈥526.

"Agnon and the Need for Tradition," in Jewish Book Annual, J. Kabakoff, ed. New York, 1988.

"Creativity and the Survivor: The Struggle for Mastery," International Review of Psycho-Analysis, (1989) 16: 372鈥86.

"Infidel Jew: Freud and Psychoanalysis," in Psychoanalysis and Tradition, Laurence Spurling, ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1993.

"Grief and Mystical Union: the Baal Shem Tov and Krishnamurti," Harvard Theological Review, 86, 3 (1993): 209-221.

"Fantasies of Deviance in Mendele and Agnon," Association for Jewish Studies Review XIX (1994) 1:45-60.

"Charisma and Attachment Theory: A Crossdisciplinary Interpretation," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 76 (1995) 4:545-555.

鈥淗ebrew Literature and Jewish Nationalism in Tsarist Russia 1881-1917," Nations and Nationalism 3,1 (1997): 25-44.

"Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis: Toward a Sociological Gestalt," British Journal of Sociology 48,1(1997): 128-148.

鈥淭he Artist as Nation-Builder: William Butler Yeats and Chaim Nachman Bialik鈥 (co-author), Nations and Nationalism 5,4 (October 1999): 501-522.

The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism,鈥 Nations and Nationalism 6, 3 (2000) 347-362.

鈥淭rauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century BCE,鈥 Judaism 198, 50, 2 (Spring 2001): 211-221.

鈥淗ellenism and Jewish Nationalism: ambivalence and its ancient roots,鈥 (co-author), Ethnic and Racial Studies 25, 5 (September 2002): 1-23.

鈥淭he Poetry of Nationalism,鈥 Nations and Nationalism 9, 3 (April 2003):255-275.

鈥淔anatic Heart: The Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg,鈥 Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal, Spring 2003: 16-32.

鈥淓nlightenment and Cultural Confusion: Mendele鈥檚 The Mare and Dangarembga鈥檚 Nervous Conditions, Comparative Literary Studies, 41, 2 (2004) 214-230.

鈥淩eligious Metaphor and Its Denial in the Poetry of Amichai,鈥 Judaism, 53, 3-4 (2004): 279-292.

鈥淣ationalism and the Hebrew Bible,鈥 Nations and Nationalism, 11 (2) 2005: 223-242.

鈥淣ationalism, Reform Judaism and the Hebrew Prayer Book,鈥 Nations and Nationalism 12 (1) 2006: 139-159.

鈥淢yth, History and Nationalism: Poetry of the British Isles,鈥 in Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism, Athena S. Leoussi and Steven Grosby, eds., Edinburgh University Press, 2007: 84-96.

鈥淭he Embrace of the Rosebush: Anti-Hebraism in Modern Jewish Literature,鈥 The International Fiction Review 34 (1&2) 2007: 92-108.

鈥淏eggars of Love: Agnon and Flaubert,鈥 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 7, 2 (2008) 157-174.

鈥淏yron to D鈥橝nnunzio: From Liberalism to Fascism in National Poetry 1815-1920,鈥 Nations and Nationalism, 14 (3) 2008: 478-497.

鈥淗olocaust Literature: Foreshadowings and Shadowings,鈥 in Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Modern Jewish Literature in Honor of Ruth Wisse鈥, Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 35-53.

"Polish Jewish Patriotism between the Wars,鈥 in Polin, vol. 22 (2009), ed. Antony Polonsky.

"Memoir on Isaiah Berlin," Times Literary Supplement, 5 June 2009.

鈥淶ionist Patriotism in Europe, 1897-1942: Ambiguities in Jewish Nationalism,鈥 International History Review, xxxi, 2: June 2009, pp. 268-298.

鈥淭he British Empire and Revolutionary National Poetry,鈥 Nations and Nationalism 16 (2), 2010: 220-239.

鈥淓uropean national poetry, Islam, and the defeat of the medieval Church,鈥 Nations and Nationalism 18 (4) 2012: 603-623.

鈥樷滱 One-Sided Love Affair鈥: German Jewish Literature 1789-1939,鈥 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 14 (3) 2015: 1-19.

鈥淥n the 鈥楬oly Poor鈥: from the Hebrew Bible to the literature of developing countries, 1945 -,鈥 Working Paper, London School of Economics, 2017.

鈥淭he Patriotism of Gentlemen with Red Hair: European Jews and the Liberal State, 1789-1939鈥, The Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 30 (2) 2017: 129-146.

鈥淧overty and Mass Education: the Jews in the Roman Empire,鈥 Working Paper, London School of Economics, 2018.

Scholarly activities:

Invited Lectures:

Environmental Research Workshop at 看片视频, 鈥楾he Environment and Literature鈥

Podcast in Poetry off the Shelf (Poetry Foundation): 鈥楶overty鈥檚 History鈥 (on Blake, Wordsworth and Clare)

Oxford University webinar, 鈥楨nergy and the Literature of Moral Dilemmas鈥 Oxford Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, on nationalism and the Hebrew Bible

鈥淭rauma and Creativity from the Bible to Modern Times,鈥 in colloquia on Terrors, Traumas and Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Psychoanalytical Society, New York.

鈥淣ationalism and the Hebrew Bible,鈥 The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism conference on Nationalism and Language, London, March 2003

鈥淣ational Poetry 1789-1914: from Revolutionary Idealism to Mass Destruction,鈥 London School of Economics

鈥淣ational Poetry in the Ottoman Turkish Empire鈥 (Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia). London School of Economics.

鈥淣ational Poetry in the Tsarist Russian Empire鈥 (Finland, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and Hebrew). London School of Economics

鈥淣ational Poetry in the British Empire鈥 (Scotland, Ireland, India, pre-State Israel). London School of Economics

鈥淗ebrew Studies as Value: the Image of Hebrew in English Literature,鈥 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

鈥淧rophets Against the State: On the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,鈥 London School of Economics, December 1998.

鈥淥n Freud, Psychoanalysis and Judaism,鈥 The New School, New York.

鈥淕od-in-hiding: From Loss to Faith and Creativity: an interpretation of the origins of monotheism,鈥 The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淏etween Hope and Terror: The European Jews 1789-1939,鈥 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淧overty and Ideological Failure: from Wordsworth to Steinbeck - Poverty in Western Literature, 1789-1939,鈥 Kennedy Center for International Development, Harvard University.

鈥淶ionist Patriotism and Anti-Semitism, 1897-1942,鈥 看片视频

鈥淏yron to D鈥橝nnunzio: from liberalism to fascism in national poetry, 1815-1920,鈥 The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淲alt Whitman, American Nationalism and the Revolutions of 1848-49,鈥 The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淪hakespeare to Wordsworth: the Bible, Capitalism and the English Poor,鈥 The Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

鈥淓uropean National Poetry, Islam and the Defeat of the Medieval Church,鈥 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淭he French Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State, 1789-1944,鈥 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

鈥淢endele and the damned poor,鈥 conference on poverty and Judaism, Brown University.

鈥淭he Bible, Literature and Modern Economics: the betrayal of Scripture,鈥 看片视频 University,

鈥淛ewish Patriotism and anti-Patriotic Literature: from Heine to Stefan Zweig,鈥 Cambridge University.

鈥淒ivine Scroungers: Scripture, legislation and the poor in Western literature,鈥 London School of Economics.

鈥淛udah Hanasi as Educational Revolutionary,鈥 Oxford, Chabad House.

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