Uri S. Cohen

A Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine: The Roots of the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, 1934–1944

This article examines the search for an appropriate managerial structure at the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine between 1934 and 1944. It argues that two competing managerial models – a centralistic model rooted in the German research university tradition a...

Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival

The article examines survival and its place as a form of language dominating life in the camp in Primo Levi’s account. Such a focus on the nature of survival as a mechanism of the camp reveals the disintegration of the friend/enemy distinction and opens ambivalent ground between...

War of the Words: War and the Length of Poems

This essay explores the connection between war and the length of poems, reading the Anglo-American poetry of the twentieth century in the context of the world wars. The essay traces the changes in poetic length in Italian and Hebrew poetry, focusing on the long poems of Yehuda Am...