Abigail Gillman is Associate Professor of Hebrew, German, and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures.\u00a0 She teaches courses on modern German literature; Hebrew literature; Israeli Cinema; and Religion and Literature (cross-listed as XL and RN). She teaches and lectures in the Core Curriculum, and has also taught in the CAS Writing Program.<\/p>\n
Gillman is an active member of the Jewish Studies faculty, and served as interim director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in 2016-17.<\/p>\n
She has taught online courses on Jewish literature and film at Hebrew College in Newton.<\/p>\n
Gillman\u2019s scholarship focuses on Jewish literature and culture of the German-speaking world.\u00a0 She has lectured and published on Kafka; Schnitzler; Freud; Mendelssohn; Buber; Rosenzweig; and on Holocaust memory and monuments. A recent essay, \u201cMartin Buber\u2019s Message to Postwar Germany,\u201d won the Egon Schwarz Prize for an Outstanding Essay in the Area of German Jewish Studies.<\/p>\n
Her first book,\u00a0Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzle<\/em>r (Penn State Press, 2009), examines a circle of writers and thinkers in turn-of-the-century Vienna whose shared obsession with memory led them to write about Jewish memory and identity in highly experimental ways.<\/p>\n She recently published\u00a0A History of German Jewish Bible Translation (<\/em>University of Chicago Press, 2018). This book takes as its starting point the remarkable number of re-translations of the Hebrew Bible produced in Germany\u2014translations into German and Yiddish\u2014from the Haskalah through the twentieth century.\u00a0 The book demonstrates that bible translation in Jewish society was (and still is) used to promote diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic goals.<\/p>\n She is currently writing about the parable\/mashal across Jewish Literature, and about \u201cmonstrous motherhood\u201d in recent Israeli (and Jewish) film and memoirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14393,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14391\/revisions\/14393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}