Leona Toker

Leona Toker, a graduate of Vilnius University, emigrated to Israel in 1973 and, while working first as a school teacher and then as a teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, continued her studies in English literature at the Hebrew University, obtaining her PhD degree in 1981. She is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010), Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps (2019), and articles on English, American, Russian, and Israeli writers. She has edited the collection Commitment in Reflections: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994) and co-edited Rereading Texts/Rethinking Critical Presuppositions (1996) and Knowledge and Pain (2021). Professor Emerita of the Hebrew University and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, she is the founding editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.