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Prof. Ofer Dynes
Ofer Dynes, the Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, has won a 2025 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award for his forthcoming book The Fiction of the State: The Partitions of Poland and the Beginning of Modern Jewish Literature (Stanford University Press, September 2026) from the Association for Jewish Studies.
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