Roman Katsman
Israeli researcher
Roman Katsman (Hebrew: רומן כצמן; born 1969) is an Israeli professor and researcher of Hebrew and Russian literature. He is Full Professor of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University.
Biography
Katsman was born in Zhitomir (Ukraine) on November 26, 1969. He has lived in Israel since 1990. He earned his Ph.D. (cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University in 1999. The title of his dissertation was "Mythopoesis: Theory, Method and Application in the Selected Works by Dostoevsky and Agnon." Since 2000, Katsman has taught in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the Head of the Department. Established the Program for Jewish-Russian Literature. Katsman is married to Tatyana and has two children - Anna and Eli.
Research
Mythopoesis
Katsman's first book, The Time of Cruel Miracles (2002), is dedicated to developing a theory of mythopoesis, that is, how myth is created through the act of reading the literary text.
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