Scope of Research: Modern Jewish Literature, Israeli Culture, modern theater, diaspora studies
Academic background: A literature and theater scholar of Jewish culture in Israel, Europe, and the United States, specializing in modern Hebrew and German literature, multilingualism, modernism, and literary history.
Dr. Peles Almgor received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2020. Her dissertation, “Language and Home in Twentieth-Century Hebrew and German Literature,” won the Leo Baeck Prize for the study of German Jewish history and culture in 2022. She earned my BA in Comparative Literature and Theater Arts from Tel Aviv University and an MA in Hebrew Literature from Ben-Gurion University, where she wrote a thesis comparing Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s work in the 1930s and Bertolt Brecht’s epic theater, for which she received the Dov Sadan Award.
Selected Publications:
Peles-Almagor, Michal. “’I Seek the Stars in the Daylight’: Citation, Recitation, and Leah Goldberg’s Hidden German Poem,” Naharaim 17.1 (2023).
Peles-Almagor, Michal, Achinoam Aldouby and Chiara Renzo, “Theater in Jewish DPs Camps in Italy: A Stage for Political and Ideological Debate on Aliya, Zionism, and Jewish Identity.” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History.
Peles-Almagor, Michal. “’Here’ is a Different Place: Lieland and Hebrew Literary Space.” BGU Review, A Journal of Israeli Culture 5 (2018), online journal.
