Tel Aviv University
Paul Celan and the Verjudung of Poetry
Ohad Kohn is a PhD student at the Porter School for Cultural Studies of the Tel Aviv University, writing his doctoral dissertation on the poetic language of Paul Celan from the vantage point of the poet’s use of the term Verjudung. He graduated from the German Department and the Amirim Interdisciplinary Honors Program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and spent a year as an exchange student at the Berlin Freie and Humboldt Universities. His central academic and intellectual interests are German and Yiddish Literature and their inter-cultural and inter-lingual contact. His M.A. thesis consequently examined the influence of Yiddish on the literary work of Paul Celan by striving to show how the complex inter-lingual dynamics between Yiddish and German manifests itself in his writing.