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Book 

Asscher, Omri (2019). Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews. Stanford University Press.

Refereed articles in peer-reviewed journals

1. Asscher, Omri and Michal Schuster (2024). "The linguistic integration of Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel: A gender perspective," Israel Studies in Langauge and Society.

2. Asscher, Omri (2023). “The Decline in the Religious Zionist Negation of the Diaspora: A Translation Perspective,” Contemporary Jewry. DOI: 10.1007/s12397-022-09471-w

3. Glikson, Ella, and Omri Asscher (2023). “AI-mediated Apology in a Multilingual Work Context: Implications for Perceived Authenticity and Willingness to Forgive.” Computers in Human Behavior 40, 107592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107592

4. Asscher, Omri (2023). “The Position of Machine Translation in Translation Studies: A Definitional Approach.” Translation Spaces 12:2. https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.22035.ass

5. Asscher, Omri (2023). “Israeli Journalism in the Face of Moral-Political Critique in Works by Philip Roth and Saul Bellow,” Iyunim 38, 183-208 [in Hebrew]. https://in.bgu.ac.il/bgi/iyunim/Pages/default.aspx

6. Asscher, Omri (2022). “The Explanatory Power of Descriptive Translation Studies in the Machine Translation Era,” Perspectives. DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2022.2136005

7. Asscher, Omri (2022). “Language Ideology in American Jewish Thought,” Religion 52:3, 384-408.

8. Asscher, Omri and Ella Glikson (2021). “Human Evaluations of Machine Translation in an Ethically Charged Situation”. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444821101833

9. Asscher, Omri (2021). “Translation as a Probe into Homeland-Diaspora Relations”. Translation Studies 14:1, 36-50.

10. Asscher, Omri (2020). "The American Oz: Notes on Translation and Reception". Journal of Israeli History 38:2, 303-327.

11. Asscher, Omri (2020). “Exporting Political Theology to the Diaspora: Translating Rabbi Kook for Modern Orthodox Consumption”. Meta 65:2, 292-311.

12. Asscher, Omri (2020). “The Ben-Gurion-Blaustein ‘Understanding’ as a Historiographical Yardstick”. Israel Studies 25:3, 33-48.

13. Asscher, Omri and Ofer Shiff (2020). “Diasporic Stances, Homeland Prisms: Representing Diaspora in the Homeland as Internal Negotiation of National Identity”. Diaspora Studies 13:1, 1-15.

14. Asscher, Omri (2018). “Jewish-American Literature Makes Aliyah? Jewish/non-Jewish Boundary Maintenance, and the Israeli Approach to the Diaspora”. Jewish Social Studies 23:3, 128-159.

15. Asscher, Omri (2018). “Israel for American Eyes: Literature on the Move, and the Mediated Repertoire of Jewish-American Identity”. AJS Review 42:1, 21-38.

16. Asscher, Omri (2018). “’Judaism in Translation’: American Jewish Literature and Culture in Israeli Thought”. Israel 25, 109-137. [in Hebrew]

17. Asscher, Omri (2017). “A Case for an Integrated Approach to the Mediation of National Literature”. Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:1, 24-48.

18. Asscher, Omri (2016). “The Ideological Manipulation of Hebrew Literature in English Translation in the 1970s and 1980s”. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 15:3, 384-401.

19. Asscher, Omri (2014). “The Integration of Translated Hebrew Literature in America: The Pre-Zionist Phase”. Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (Iyunim Bitkumat Israel) 24, 94-129. [in Hebrew]

20. Asscher, Omri (2014). “An Anthology Editor as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.: Ehud Ben-Ezer and Representing the Arab in Hebrew Literature to the American Reader”. Dappim: Research in Literature 19, 172-186. [in Hebrew]

21. Asscher, Omri (2010). “A Model for Hebrew Translation of British Humor: Amplification and Overstatement”. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 22:2, 237-263.

Refereed book chapter

Asscher, Omri (2013). “The Augmentation Model in the Hebrew Translation of British Humor,” in Rina Ben-Shachar and Nitsa Ben-Ari (eds.), Ha-Ivrit Safa Xaya, Volume VI, 43-61. [in Hebrew]

Other publications     

Asscher, Omri (2021). "On two inherent ambiguities in Samuel Beckett's Murphy." [in Hebrew] https://www.newlibrary.co.il/page_18548

Asscher, Omri (2013). Review of Michael Weingrad’s “American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United-States”. Studies in American Jewish Literature 32:2, 218-221.

Selected translations

Books - translation

Murphy by Samuel Beckett, Tel Aviv: The New Library (2020, with my annotation).

Watt by Samuel Beckett (forthcoming).

Thinking in Tongues by Guy Deutscher, Tel Aviv: Xargol-Am Oved, 2011.

The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher, Tel Aviv: Xargol-Am Oved, 2007.

Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore, Tel Aviv: Aliyat Hagag-Yediot Sefarim.

Articles and essays - translation

“My Israel Story: An Interim Report on a Winding Journey” by David N. Myers, in Kavim Li-dmutenu, Ben-Gurion Publishing Institute, 2020.

“Getting Up on Cold Mornings” by James Henry Leigh Hunt, in Dehak, 6, February 2016.

“Dissecting the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis,” by Edna Ullmann-Margalit, in Odyssey 4, June 2009.

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