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Dr. Abigail Gillman serves as Associate Professor of Hebrew, German and Comparative Literature at Boston University and currently acts as Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Harvard University and earned her B.A. in Literature from Yale University.
Professor Gillman's research focuses on the intersection of Jewish intellectual history and literary studies, particularly examining German Jewish contributions to biblical translation and modernist literature. Her work explores how Jewish thinkers navigated cultural identity through literary expression and religious texts during pivotal historical periods including the Enlightenment and early 20th century Vienna.
Her scholarship demonstrates consistent thematic focus on translation as cultural mediation, with particular attention to how Jewish intellectuals engaged with both religious texts and secular literary traditions. The recurring emphasis on German-Jewish intellectual history across her publications reveals a dedicated scholarly trajectory examining cultural exchange and identity formation.
Professor Gillman has authored significant monographs including Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler and A History of German Jewish Bible Translation, establishing her as a leading scholar in her fields of expertise.
