Bernard Horn is professor of English at Framingham State College, specializing in Hebrew literature, both Biblical and modern.  He is an expert on Israel’s great novelist A.B. Yehoshua.

Bernard Horn is a distinguished essayist, teacher, lecturer, and poet.  His numerous publications cover the fields of American literature, the Bible as literature, and technical writing.  Among his recent works is the well-received Facing the Fires: Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua.  His translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai have appeared in The New Yorker and Moment magazines.  He has also written about the biblical episodes of the Golden Calf, the Spies, and the Korach Rebellion.

Professor Horn is the recipient of five National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in contemporary and Biblical literature.  He has also spent time teaching and researching in Israel and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach there.  He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Connecticut.  His first book of poems, Our Daily Words, won the 2009 Old Seventy Creek Poetry Prize.  Many of his poems touch on Israeli matters.

Topics:

• The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
• A. B. Yehoshua’s Jerusalem
• Observations of an American in Israel: A Discussion on the Situation in Israel Today
• Zionism, the Holocaust, and Jewish Identity in A.B. Yehoshua’s Fiction
• Nationality and Religion in the Binding of Isaac
• What Happened in Eden? A Liberal Jew’s Reading of Genesis 3