Gali Drucker Bar-Am

Gali Drucker Bar-Am is a scholar of modern Yiddish literature and culture, an educator, and a lecturer at Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv. Her award winning book, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967, was published by Indiana University Press in 2024. Among her most influential papers are ‘The Holy Tongue and the Tongue of the Martyrs: The Eichmann Trial as Reflected in Letste Nayes’ and ‘May the Makom Comfort you— Place, Holocaust Remembrance and the Creation of a National Identity in the Israeli Yiddish Press 1948- 1961’ (2014); ‘Revenge and Reconciliation: Early Israeli Literature and the Dilemma of Jewish Collaborators with the Nazis’ (2015); ‘The Bund In Israel: Searching for Jewish Working Class Secular Brotherhood in Zion’ and ‘The Anthological Affect: Memory and Place in Early Post WWII Yiddish Culture’ (2018); ‘“Record and Lament:” Yizker Bikher as History and Literature Conflated’ (2023).