{"id":11543,"date":"2020-01-24T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&#038;p=11543"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:26:45","slug":"hila-amit","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/hila-amit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hila Amit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hila Amit was born in Tel Aviv in 1985. She studied creative writing at Tel Aviv University and received her PhD in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London. Her first short story collection, <em>Moving On From Bliss<\/em> (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Debut Writers. Her scholarly work focuses on Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and queer theory. Her first nonfiction book, <em>A Queer Way Out<\/em> (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), focuses on Israelis in the Diaspora. In 2019, she received the AMEWS Book Award. She has lived in Berlin since 2014 and is co-founder of the literary project &#8220;&#8221;Anu \u05d0\u05e0\u05d5 \u0646\u062d\u0646: Jews and Arabs Writing in Berlin.&#8221; \u00a0In 2014, she founded the <em>International Hebrew School<\/em> and teaches Hebrew to groups and individuals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hebrew for All: From Language to Diversity, M\u00fcnster: Edition Assemblage, (2020).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Kinneret, short story, Emrys Journal, Volume 37, winner of the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award, Emrys Publishing, (2020).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Moving on from Grace, short story, Washington Square Review, NY: New York University Press (2020).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Orange Groves, short story, Yalta. Positions on the Jewish Present, Neofelis Publishing, (2019).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Israel, Zionism and the Emigration Anxiety: The Case<\/em> <em>of Israeli Academia, Settler Colonial Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1: Settlers and Citizens: A critical view of Israeli Society, Rutledge (2019).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Queer Way Out &#8211; The Politics of Queer Israeli Emigration, 200 pages, Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2018).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin, Topographies of the New Berlin, Berghahn Books (2017).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Moving on from Bliss, Short Stories, Tel Aviv: Am-Oved (2016).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hila Amit was born in Tel Aviv in 1985. She studied creative writing at Tel Aviv University and received her PhD in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London. Her first short story collection, Moving On From Bliss (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Debut Writers. 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