Eitan Bar-Yosef: Africa in Israeli Culture: Fantasies and Encounters

Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben Gurion University) discusses his work on "Africa in Israeli Culture: Fantasies and Encounters."Eitan Bar-Yosef is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in Victorian studies and postcolonialism. His work has focused on British Imperial culture with an emphasis on Britain's colonial interests in Palestine, the role played by Anglo-Jewry in the making of Empire, and the relationship between Zionist culture and British colonialism. More recently, he has turned his attention to Israeli literature and culture; his recent book was titled "A Villa in the Jungle: Africa in Israeli Culture." He is currently a research fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.