Roman Katsman

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Full Name	Roman Katsman
Occupation	Literary Scholar
Date Of Birth	Nov 26, 1969(1969-11-26)
Age	55
Birthplace	Zhytomyr
Country	Ukraine
Birth City	Zhytomyr Oblast
Horoscope	Scorpio

Roman Katsman Biography

Roman Katsman is one of the most popular and richest Literary Scholar who was born on November 26, 1969 in Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Katsman was born 26 November 1969 in Zhitomir (Ukraine). Since 1990, he has been living in Israel. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. (Cum Laude), from Bar-Ilan University. The dissertation title is “Mythopoesis Theory, Method and Application in the Select Works by Dostoevsky & Agnon”. Katsman taught in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People at Bar- Ilan University since 2000. He was the Head of the Department from 2014 to 2017. Roman Katsman has two children and is married to his wife.

It is important to remember that oscillation at all these levels is what determines the choice as well as the subject or object. There can’t be myths, personalities, history or historiography without oscillation among unrealized possibilities. The oscillation is not what happens after the poles have been determined, but it is actually what creates them. This oscillation creates alternatives, not the opposite. Rhetoric, which is an internal mechanism that creates oscillation and creates historical alternativity, is called rhetoric. Alternative history refers to a method of creating meaning, whether it is through narrative, personality, memory or writing. This means that establishing meaning is both a personal and historical creation. It is also an act of establishing ethics, and truth.

A Small Prophecy (2013) is a theoretical and applied research of sincerity as rhetorical and cultural, lingual and anthropological category. Sincerity and rhetoric provide two ways for constituting a personality (subject, identity, character) in the speech. They complement each other till their complete confluence in the intention of persuasion. Two opposite conceptions of sincerity – as genuine self-expression and as artificial “theatrical” performance – are presented as not effective, especially in such complex cultural phenomena as S.Y. Agnon’s work. In the first part of the research, the analysis of sincere speech as rhetorical act leads to discussion of the rhetoric itself and to its repositioning in cultural-spiritual practice. By this course, the concept of cultural-communal rhetoric of sincerity has been shaped, which is applied to resolving the intricate problems roused within Agnon studies, particularly the problem of author’s sincerity in representation of miracle, his religious or anti religious intentions. In the second part, the Book One of ‘Ir u-mlo’a is discussed, focusing on the Agnon rhetoric and on what is called “Agnon’s lessons in rhetoric and sincerity”. The analysis brings out that Agnon’s impossible, multi-intentional discourse on “the impossible” is aimed to scrutinize the realized possibilities of the historical existence of the Jewish community (on the scale from Buchach to the People of Israel), and to create new, not realized possibilities – the most mythic and true ones.

The book Nostalgia for a Foreign Land (2016) focuses on the last two and half decades of the history of Russian literature in Israel, and particularly on several novelists among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of repatriation in 1990s, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekoda Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yuri Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media. Singer and Yudson are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. In spite of the evident differences in their styles, lingual and aesthetic visions, these five writers are united by the same essential feature: free play of the Jewish-Russian mentality, Jewish-Israeli identity, and Russian- Israeli culture. They search for the new indigeneity and find it in the metaphysical nomadism, multiplicity, network, or untranslatability. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and (pseudo-)indigenous Israelis.

The problem of gestures in literature is addressed in the book At the Other End of Gesture (2008). A cognitive model of gesture processing is created using recent advances in modern science (Adam Kendon and David McNeill), and a method for interdisciplinary research into the representation of gestures in text is developed. This includes anthropological, poetic, and semiological aspects. A series of discussions on the poetics behind gestures in contemporary Hebrew writers (Uri Nazgnessin, Isaac Dov Berkowitz and Yeshayahu Bershadsky), leads to profound conclusions about their poetry and the philosophy of gestures in modern culture. This study examines the function of gesture as an anthropological motive to create art and as one mechanism that produces symbolism.

Roman Katsman Net Worth

Roman Katsman is one of the richest Literary Scholar from Ukraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Roman Katsman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Roman Katsman, a 1969-born Israeli researcher of Hebrew literature and Russian literature is Full Professor at Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Literature of the Jewish People.

The Time of Cruel Miracles (2002, The First Book) is dedicated to the development of a theory of mythopoesis. This theory explains how myths are created by the act of reading literary texts. According to Alexei Losev, myth is a miracle history of personality told in words. The miracle in this instance being seen as the realization of the personality’s transcendental purpose within empirical history. A theory of mythopoesis, based on the Emmanuel Levinas concept about revelation, is suggested. It is the phenomenon where a personality becomes towards its miracle through an ethical face-toface encounter with another person. This theory of mythopoesis provides the basis for a method to study literary mythopoesis.

The book Literature, History, Choice (2013) deals with one of the most popular subjects in the recent literature and cinematography – alternative (counterfactual, allo-history). Alternative history is not merely the definition of a historiographic method and of a subgenre of fantasy literature, but it is rather also a poetic and hermeneutical principle. One may discover foundations of the alternative history principle in works that have no connection at all to fantasy genres. In this case, one must speak of the poetics of historical alternative. Even when the work makes no overt use of the poetics of historical alternativity, the principle of historical alternativity can be used as a method of reading, that is, as a hermeneutic principle, which is used to reveal implicit historiographical and historical perceptions on which the poetics and ideology of the work are based. What makes it possible to speak of alternative history in such a sweeping sense is the observation that alternative history is not just oscillation between different histories but rather oscillation between alternative elements at four levels: myth (plot); personality (identity); choice (perception of history), and mode of choice (historiographical view). The mechanism of oscillation is identical at all of the levels and it consists of a return to the point of bifurcation in the past and a free choice of the new future. However, at every level, the historical, ethical, cultural and personalistic significance of the oscillation is different because at every level, different elements may be chosen. Thus, analysis of an implicit historical and historiographical discourse, which underlies every work of literature, is carried out using a multi-layered method.

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