Research Interests - Centre for Jewish History and Culture

Key areas

Principal areas of specialisation in the Centre for Jewish History and Culture include:

• Modern Hebrew language
• Modern and contemporary Hebrew literature
• Modern and contemporary Jewish literature in English and English translation
• Biblical prose and poetry
• Post-Biblical Hebrew literature
• Education in Australian and Jewish day schools
• Second language teaching and acquisition
• The representation of European (especially German and Austrian) Jewry in 20th Century Hebrew literature
• Holocaust literature
• Inter-faith relations

Academic staff research interests

• Dr Dvir Abramovich, director
• Associate Professor Ziva Shavitsky, principal academic fellow