Shachar Pinsker is the author of A Rich Brew: How Cafes Cre­at­ed Mod­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture and Lit­er­ary Pass­ports: The Mak­ing of Mod­ernist Hebrew Fic­tion in Europe. He is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michigan.