Press and interviews

 

2026

  • Politics of bUm: I am quoted in this article by Sana Ahmad and Marie Konrad about bUm, its political and social role in Berlin, and the importance of spaces that support collective work, creativity and solidarity. Read the full article on Berlin Gazette:
    Politics of bUm: Coworking Spaces as Sites of Reproducing Collective Capacity | First published in Berlin Gazette, 29 September 2026.



  • Wie ich ein transnationaler Dichter wurde, Tip Berlin. 31.5.2023

2022

2021

Photo: Tagesspiegel.

2019

  • „Judendichtar“ Mati Shemoelof veröffentlicht nun auf deutsch, Stephanie Oswlat, Duetschland Rundfunk Kultur. 2020.

  • A German-Hebrew French Kiss: On Bilingual Homophony and Other Multilingual Intimacies in German-Jewish Literature, Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies; 2019; 6: 61-89. [Journal Detail] Walter de Gruyter, Inc.

2018

2017

  • Mati Shemoelof in Berlin: “It Is Also Okay to Know When to Step Aside”

An interview with Mati Shemoelof by translator and writer Gadi Goldberg, published in November 2017 around the Berlin launch of Shemoelof’s poetry collection Ivrit MiHutz Le’everim HaMetukim (Hebrew Outside the Sweet Organs). The conversation explores migration, Hebrew as a minority language, Mizrahi identity, longing, diaspora, refugees, fatherhood and Shemoelof’s changing relationship with political activism.

2015

2014