Ranen Omer-Sherman is The JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville. He is the author or editor of six books including Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature (2002), Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert (2006), The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (2013), Imagining Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (2015), and Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond (2023). He serves as co-editor of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. He was a founder of a desert kibbutz, served as a combat soldier in the IDF and worked for many years as a desert guide.
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