Dr. Assaf Inbari

Dr. Assaf Inbari is a lecturer in the Core Curriculum Department and the Asper Chair in Zionist Studies at Shalem College. An author, essayist, and literary critic, he is the winner of the prestigious Agnon Prize for his novels The Tank and Home, the latter of which was nominated for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s leading literary honor. His newest book, The Red Book, explores the development of the ideas of Israel’s leading thinkers on the political Left in the early years of statehood. An expert on the poet Haim Nahman Bialik in particular and early Zionist thought in general, his writing is concerned with philosophical attempts to define a unique Hebrew literature and culture.