About Gil Z. Hochberg
Born 1969. Gil Z. Hochberg is an American and Israeli literary scholar.
Gil Z. Hochberg is an Israeli-American scholar. She is currently the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University.
Early life Hochberg was born in Israel. Her father is Israeli statistician and professor Yosef "Yossi" Hochberg. She studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University.
Career Hochberg has written three academic books: Becoming Palestine: Towards an Archival Imagination of The Future (2021), Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (2015), and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (2007) as well as several art catalogs. She previously taught for 15 years at UCLA. Her 2026 book, My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir (2026), traces her relationship with her father.
Hochberg identifies as a feminist, queer, Jewish anti-Zionist.
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Who is Gil Z. Hochberg?
Israeli-American scholar
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Gil Z. Hochberg was born on 9 January 1969.
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Gil Z. Hochberg is a literary scholar.
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Gil Z. Hochberg is American and Israeli.
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