Abigail Gillman is Professor of Hebrew, German and Comparative Literature, and\u00a0affiliated faculty in the\u00a0Graduate Faculty of Religion and in Jewish Studies at\u00a0Boston University.\u00a0\u00a0She served as Interim\u00a0Director of the Elie Wiesel\u00a0Center for Jewish Studies in 2016-17. 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 Schnitzler\u00a0<\/em>(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 A second book,\u00a0A History of German Jewish Bible Translation<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2018), takes as its starting point the remarkable number of retranslations 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 At Boston University, Gillman teaches courses on modern German literature; Hebrew literature; Israeli Cinema; and Religion and Literature (cross-listed as XL and RN). She also teaches and lectures in the CAS Core Curriculum. Gillman is also an adjunct faculty member at Hebrew College in Newton, MA, where she teaches both online and in-person courses on Jewish literature and film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Courses in Jewish Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n