Michael Weingrad

Michael Weingrad is Academic Director of the Harold Schnitzer 
Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. 
He is the author of American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish 
National Identity in the United States, published by Syracuse University 
Press in 2011. 



His field of interest is modern Jewish and Hebrew literature and culture, 
and he is currently working on a book of translations of the Hebrew
poet Reuven Ben-Yosef.  He has published essays and articles in such
journals and magazines as Commentary, AJS Review, Prooftexts, and 
the Jewish Review of Books.  He has been a Harry Starr Fellow at 
Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies and a Montague Burton 
Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds.  

American Hebrew Literature at Amazon

Reviews of American Hebrew Literature:

The Forward

The New Republic and Tablet Magazine

Jewish Ideas Daily

other recent writing:

“Why There Is No Jewish Narnia” in the Jewish Review of Books

“No Jewish Narnias: A Reply”

Still No Jewish Narnias