Omri Asscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His translations into Hebrew include Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt and Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language.

Omri Asscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His translations into Hebrew include Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt and Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language.

Introduction: Translating across the Homeland-Diaspora Divide
1. The Zionist Transformation
2. Ethical Conundrums
3. Israeli Jewishness for American Eyes
4. Jewish American Literature Makes Aliyah
5. "Judaism in Translation"
Conclusion: Entangled Self-Perceptions