Michael P. Kramer

A scholar, editor, and translator, Professor Kramer completed his PhD at Columbia University and taught at Princeton University and the University of California before moving to Israel.  He currently teaches Jewish and American literature and leads the William Solomon Jewish Arts Seminar in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University.   He is the author of Imagining Language in America, editor of New Essays on Bellow’s Seize the Day and Before the Flood: Early Jewish American Writing, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries, and The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature Culture and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch.  His annotated translation of S.Y. Agnon’s And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight is forthcoming from Toby Press, and he is working on a history of Jewish American literary criticism.