Liat Steir-Livny
Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture, Sapir Academic College, Israel

Liat Steir-Livny is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture at Sapir Academic College, Israel. She also serves as a tutor and course coordinator in the MA program in Cultural Studies and in the Arts Department at the Open University, Israel. Her books and articles focus on Holocaust commemoration in Israel. Her first book, Two Faces in the Mirror (Eshkolot-Magness, 2009), analyzes the representation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli cinema, while her second book, Let the Memorial Hill Remember (Resling, 2014), analyzes the changing memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Israeli culture. Other works include Is It O.K to Laugh About It? (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017), which analyses Holocaust humor, satire and parody in Israeli culture, and Three Years, Two Perspectives, One Trauma (The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, In Print), which compares the films and newsletters of American Jewish organizations and Eretz-Israeli organizations in the peak years of the Zionist struggle for a Jewish State.