Ilana RosenIlana Rosen holds the S.Y. Agnon Chair of Contemporary Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University (BGU). She studies the documentary literature of Jews and Israelis about the Holocaust, immigration to Israel, and memories of life in various disporas. Her first (Ph.D.) study, Sister in Sorrow (Wayne State University Press, 2008)--about women survivors of the Holocaust--won the 2009 American Folklore Society AFS Award, named after Elli Köngäs-Maranda, for women's studies. She is the author of six research books and a memoir about her childhood in Jerusalem. Read More Read Less