Dr. Karin Neuburger Twito

Dr. Karin Neuburger Twito earned her first degree in Comparative Literature, French, and Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin. She then completed her BA, MA, and PhD in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Both her MA thesis and her PhD dissertation examined the intersection between modern Jewish literature and German literature.

Dr. Neuburger Twito’s publications address the works of writers such as Kafka, Berdichevsky, Agnon, Rilke, Kleist, Barbara Honigmann, Stefan Zweig, Gershon Shofman, Yoel Hoffmann, and Goethe. In Hebrew, she recently published the book Green Mountain and Love: Young Uri Zvi Greenberg and the History of Modern Jewish Poetry. The book offers an alternative approach to the conventional understanding of Jewish poetry’s – particularly Hebrew poetry’s – development within the European context. This leads to new ways of reading and interpreting this poetry.

A German-language essay proposing a fresh perspective on the Bildungsroman genre will be published soon by Dr. Neuburger Twito. She is currently completing a book on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, which, she argues, is marked by an engagement with the figure of Christ.