Contributors

Abigail Akavia is a theater artist, director, and scholar based in Leipzig. Her research and performative work examine the intersection of trauma and song, through and beyond myth. Akavia holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Chicago, and in 2019-2021 was a Minerva Stiftung post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Theater Studies at Leipzig University. Her book, Dancing with Philoctetes, is forthcoming at Tangent, a division of Punctum Press. abigailakavia.com

Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor, Vice Dean for Research, and Head of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at Haifa University, editor of Maarag—the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis (the Hebrew University), poetess, and literature researcher. She authored six poetry books, two memoirs, and four psychoanalytic books: Cleft Tongue (Karnac, ), On the Lyricism of the Mind (Routledge, ), Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, ), and Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge (Routledge, ). She was awarded several literary and academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards: the Frances Tustin Memorial Prize , the IPA Sacerdoti Prize , the IPA Hayman Prize , the IFPE (International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education) Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award , and together with her post-doctoral student—the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies award .

Leora Bilsky is the Benno Gitter Chair in Human Rights and Holocaust Research at the Tel Aviv University faculty of law and the director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. She earned an L.L.M and J.S.D from Yale Law School. She is the author of Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (University of Michigan Press, ) and The Holocaust, Corporations,

and the Law: Unfinished Business (University of Michigan Press, ). She has been editor-in-chief of