Monica Osborne

Monica is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish American Literature at UCLA, where she has taught Jewish American Fiction and a course on the ethics of Holocaust representation. She has written for Studies in American Jewish Literature, Tikkun, Shofar, and Modern Fiction Studies. She has also taught a Bible as Literature class at Purdue University. She is currently working on turning her dissertation--"The Midrashic Impulse: Reading Fiction, Film, and Painting in the Face of the Shoah"--into a book manuscript.

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No Business Like Shoah Business

I’m going to do something that I despise in other people—I’m going to talk authoritatively…

Primo Levi’s Defiant Molecule

Twenty years after his death, Primo Levi is still being read, and now we have…

African Americans Equal German Target Practice

With the lingering Imus debacle and now this new slew of racial insults from a…

Vonnegut, the Non-Jewish Writer, Dies

Kurt Vonnegut, called one of America's best writers by the likes of Graham Greene, John…

Finding the Lost Tribe of Judah…in Poland

This past weekend I somehow managed to end up in a Catholic church in Grosse…