Vivian Liska is Professor of German literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the editor of the book series “Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts” (De Gruyter, Berlin) and co-editor of Arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies. Her books include When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature (Indiana UP, 2009) and German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife. A Tenuous Legacy (Indiana UP, 2017).