Efraim Sicher is Professor of Comparative and English Literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published essays and books on modern Jewish culture, Holocaust memory, and anti-Semitism. His most recent books are "The Holocaust Novel "(2005), "Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity "(2012), "Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens "(2nd edition 2012), and "Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the aJewa in Contemporary British Writing "(with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).