Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is pro­fes­sor emeri­ta of com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture at Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty in Jerusalem. She is the author of By Words Alone: The Holo­caust in Lit­er­a­ture, Book­ing Pas­sage: Exile and Home­com­ing in the Mod­ern Jew­ish Imag­i­na­tion, and two books in Hebrew.