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Adam Rovner

Contributor

Adam Rovner

United States

Adam Rovner is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver. He holds an M.A. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Since 2007, he has been the Hebrew translations editor for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

Articles by Adam Rovner

From The Translator: Adam Rovner on Bar-Yosef’s Tale of Forbidden Desire

Adam Rovner talks about translating Yehoshuah Bar-Yosef’s Soul Mate, an excerpt from which was published in this month’s issue of WWB. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Israeli…

From “Soul Mate”

By Yehoshuah Bar-Yosef

My father-in-law, Feibush, arrived unannounced at my doorstep in the middle of the week.

Translated from Hebrew by Adam Rovner

Reading Keret: Translating the Funhouse

“Hat Trick” first appeared in Missing Kissinger (1994), and has since proved one of Etgar Keret's most popular stories. In 1998, artist Batia Kolton of the Actus Tragicus comics collective…

Brutal Banality in Keret’s “An Exclusive”

At nearly nine pages, “An Exclusive” is the lengthiest story in Etgar Keret's Girl on the Fridge. Perhaps because it's the longest, it's one of my favorites. Keret is known as…

Reading Keret: Front-line of the Hyper-real

In his first blog post for our online book club on Etgar Keret's Girl on the Fridge, Adam Rovner discusses the hyper-real in Keret's story “The Night the Buses Died.” We hope you'll…

Etgar Keret in Context

In conjunction with our live Etgar Keret discussion on March 5th at the Idlewild bookstore in New York, Adam Rovner, writer, scholar and translations editor of Zeek, will be moderating an online discussion…