Ori
Kinberg

Ori Kinberg is a PhD student in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Vardi.

Ori examines Hebrew literary culture in fifteenth-century Italy, its place within Jewish everyday life, and its relationship with the surrounding Italian and Renaissance culture.

His work traces poetic revolutions and neo- classicist trends in Renaissance Hebrew writing alongside the personal networks of patrons and writers, masters and students, teachers, and connoisseurs that made up the literary fabric of this momentous period of Hebrew letters. He draws on methodologies from literature, sociology, social history, and anthropology to reconstruct the world of Renaissance Hebrew literature, considers the ways in which Hebrew writing served as an institution of Jewish life, and explores how social and political changes reshaped Hebrew writing on the verge of modernity.

Ori grew up in Ya’ad, a moshav in the Galilee, and has lived in Jerusalem since his high school days at the IASA boarding school. He completed his BA in Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University, where he also completed his MA in Hebrew literature under the supervision of Prof. Shulamit Elizur and the late Prof. Aminadav Dykman. He is a member of the European ANR- DFG research group, Rieti – A Hebrew Dante, and a research assistant to Dr. Jonathan Vardi, with whom he is preparing a new critical edition of the poems of Shmuel Ha-Nagid. When not sifting through old manuscripts, he plays the guitar, takes photographs, and backpacks. Some of his poems were recently published in the literary magazine Eruvin.