Michael P. Kramer

Michael Kramer was the founding editor of MAGGID: A Journal of Jewish Literature, is a co-organizer of Kisufim: The Jerusalem Conference of Jewish Writers, and serves on the advisory boards of The Sami Rohr Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers and of JewishFiction.net.  He has authored and edited numerous books and essays on Jewish and American literature, including Imagining Language in America, New Essays on Seize the Day, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, Modern Jewish Literatures, and The Turn Around Religion in America (click here for more).  His annotated translation of S. Y. Agnon's And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight was published by Toby Press in 2017.  He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University and taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Davis, before coming to Israel in 1994.