Leona Toker

Leona Toker, a graduate of Vilnius University, emigrated to Israel in 1973. While working first as a school teacher and then as an instructor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she continued her studies in English literature, also at Hebrew University, obtaining her Ph.D. 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 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.