Dr. Ossnat Sharon-Pinto
Post Doctoral Researcher

 

Ossnat Sharon-Pinto is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of early modern Jewish cultural history. Her research explores the intersection of literature and implicit cultural concepts such as self, space and history. Her MA thesis was completed at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem and Prof. Israel Yaacov Yuval. Her PhD dissertation, titled "The Emergence of the Self in Early Modern Jewish Travelogues: A Literary Perspective", written under the supervision of Prof. Dina Stein and Dr. Zur Shalev, was completed at Haifa University.

 

At JEWTACT, Ossnat studies translations and adaptations of popular European prose into Old Yiddish. Her current project aims to illuminate the complex assimilation of chivalric literature into the Jewish literary corpus and the part played by translation therein, in an effort to reconstruct given readers' underlying tastes, ideas and orientation in their world. 

 

Publications:

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• "Elephant, Leviathan and Nineveh the Great City: Sibbuv Petachia MiRegensburg and Midrash Yonah, Printed Side by Side" (Hebrew), Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, 30 (2016), pp. 37-73

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• “In Your Darkness, Jerusalem: Reading Meir Ariel’s ‘Jerusalem of Steel’ in 1967 and Today” (Hebrew), Hayo Haya: A Young Forum for History, 11 (2015), pp. 84-103