Ossnat Sharon-Pinto

Ossnat Sharon-Pinto is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of early modern Jewish cultural history. Her research explores the intersection of literature and implicit cultural concepts such as self, space and history. Her PhD dissertation, titled "The Emergence of the Self in Early Modern Jewish Travelogues: A Literary Perspective," written at Haifa University under the supervision of Prof. Dina Stein and Dr. Zur Shalev, was approved in June 2022. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ben-Gurion University, at the ERC project JEWTACT: Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe, where she is working on aspects of translation and folklore in Old Yiddish literature.