Dafna Shetreet

Dafna joined the German department at NYU in 2019, after completing her B.A in Philosophy and her M.A in Jewish Philosophy in Tel-Aviv University. Her thesis examined the concept of prayer in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig. Her research interests include 20th-century German-Jewish philosophy and literature, the dialectics of modernity and tradition, secularism and theology as well as literary theory, history of reception and translation theory.