Yehuda Sharim
Yehuda Sharim is a third year doctoral candidate at UCLA. He was born in Israel, where he was formerly the artistic director of the Museum of Jewish Diaspora.
When Zohar Argov and Franz Kafka Finally Met: Reconsidering Jewish Identity and Diversity in Contemporary Jewish Culture
- Sunday 11:30 AM–12:45 PM Laguna Beach 1
In this session, I will explore the multi-vocality, pun intended, and complex ethnic narratives of contemporary Jewish identities mainly from literary texts by the East European author Franz Kafka and the music of the Yemenite singer Zohar Argov. In placing these two men, their texts, their histories, their bodies, and what they represent in conversation, we will get attuned to Jewish cultural and ethnic multiplicity. Beyond an examination of terms such as “Ashkenazi,” “Sephardi,” “Mizrahi,” we will question how these ambiguous and complex.