Yitzhak Lewis

Yitzhak Lewis is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. His research interests include comparative literature in Hebrew, Spanish, and Yiddish, literary and cultural theory, transnational writing, and world literature. He is author of A Permanent Beginning: Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity (2020) and Games of Inheritance: Kabbalah, Tradition, and Authorship, in the Writing of Jorge Luis Borges (2025). He has edited a volume on “Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America” for In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (2021) and is currently co-editing a collection titled One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature in China about the reception history of Jewish literature in China from World War I until today. His work has been published in Variaciones Borges, In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, and Journal of Latin American Jewish Studies.

Lewis has a B.A. in comparative literature, psychology and creative writing from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Hebrew and comparative literature from Columbia University. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he taught at Columbia University.

Yitzhak Lewis是昆山杜克大学人文学助理教授。他的研究兴趣包括希伯来语、西班牙语和意第绪语的比较文学，文学与文化理论，跨国写作以及世界文学。他是《永恒的开端：布拉斯拉夫的拿赫曼与犹太文学的现代性》（A Permanent Beginning: Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity, 2020）和《继承的游戏：卡巴拉、传统与作者身份——博尔赫斯作品中的写作》（Games of Inheritance: Kabbalah, Tradition, and Authorship, in the Writing of Jorge Luis Borges, 2025）的作者。他主编了《意第绪语与拉丁美洲的跨国性》（”Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America”）特刊，这篇论文集于《意第绪语研究期刊》（In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies，2021年）发表。目前，他正共同编辑题为《跨越百年：中国的意第绪文学》（One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature in China）的文集，聚焦从第一次世界大战至今，犹太文学在中国的接受史。他的学术论文发表在《博尔赫斯变奏》（Variaciones Borges）、《意第绪语研究期刊》（In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies）、《文学艺术理论研究》（Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art）和《拉丁美洲犹太研究期刊》（Journal of Latin American Jewish Studies）等学术刊物上。

Lewis本科毕业于耶路撒冷希伯来大学，主修比较文学、心理学与创意写作，后于哥伦比亚大学获得希伯来文学与比较文学博士学位。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，他曾在哥伦比亚大学任教。