Роман Кацман (род. 1969) — израильский литературовед, специалист по современной ивритской и русской литературе, профессор Кафедры еврейской литературы Бар-Иланского университета.
Биография Роман Кацман родился в Житомире (Украина) 26 ноября 1969 года. В 1986—1990 годах учился в Московском автомобилестроительном институте (в те годы — ВТУЗ при ЗИЛе) и служил в Советской Армии. С ноября 1990 года проживает в Израиле. В 1999 году защитил докторскую диссертацию (с отличием) в Университете им. Бар-Илана по теме «Мифопоэзис: теория, метод и его применение к избранным произведениям Ф. М. Достоевского и Ш. Й. Агнона». С 2000 года Кацман преподает на Кафедре еврейской литературы в Университете им. Бар-Илана. С 2016 года — полный профессор, с 2014 по 2017 — заведующий кафедрой. С 2020 руководитель программы русско-еврейской литературы в Университете Бар-Илана .
Женат на Татьяне, отец Анны и Эли.
Исследования Основными сферами научных интересов Кацмана являются еврейская (ивритская) литература XX—XXI веков, литературная теория и поэтика, литературная антропология, мифология и мифотворчество, поэтика жеста, проблема искренности в литературе, альтернативная история, еврейско-русская и русско-израильская литература.
Книга Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel посвящена обсуждению ряда тем: творчество Дины Рубиной, двуязычие и неоэклектизм в творчестве Некода Зингера, героизм и виктимность в романах Елизаветы Михайличенко и Юрия Несиса, метафизика и неонативность в романе Михаила Юдсона «Лестница на шкаф». В книге "Неуловимая реальность" предлагается новый взгляд на реализм в литературе и анализируются произведения Авраама Высоцкого, Юлия Марголина, Якова Цигельмана, Эли Люксембурга, Давида Маркиша, Александра Гольдштейна, Дениса Соболева и др. Книга "Высшая лёгкость созидания" посвящена исследованию ряда мифов и мифологем в русско-израильской литературе, и в частности, в творчестве таких (помимо уже упомянутых) авторов, как Эфраим Баух, Виктория Райхер, Наум Вайман, Алекс Тарн, Даниэль Клугер, Елена Макарова, Анна Лихтикман, Линор Горалик, Леонид Левинзон, Яков Шехтер.
Публикации
Книги Высшая легкость созидания. Следующие сто лет русско-израильской литературы. Бостон: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Неуловимая реальность: Сто лет русско-израильской литературы (1920—2020). Бостон: Academic Studies Press, 2020. Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon. (In Hebrew). Jerusalem: Magness Press, 2018. Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel. Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ‘A Small Prophecy’: Sincerity and Rhetoric in Ir u-meloa by S.Y. Agnon (in Hebrew). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2013. At the Other End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature, Begengung: Jüdische Studien, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2008. Poetics of Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and Slavic Literature, Heidelberg University Publications in Slavistics, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2005. The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon, Heidelberg University Publications in Slavistics, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2002.
Под редакцией Очерки по истории русско-израильской литературы. Под ред. Романа Кацмана и Максима Д. Шраера. Бостон: Academic Studies Press, 2023. Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature. Edited by Roman Katsman and Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday, ed. Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer, Klavdia Smola. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Around the Point: Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages, ed. by Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman, and Ber Kotlerman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Избранные статьи
По-английски Poetics of Twenty-First Century Russian-Language Fiction about the Shoah. Teksty drugie #1, 2024, pp. 143-158. The Problem of sincerity and insincerity in Literature”, Iudaica Russica, 1 (6), 2021, pp. 131-146. The Nonconformist Poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov,’ in The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday. Edited by Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer, and Klavdia Smola. Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021, pp. 25-58. The Hebrew Poetry of the Younger Generation of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel. Part 1: Alex Rif, Nadia-Adina Rose. Iudaica Russica, # 1 (4), 2020, pp. 18-39. Part 2: Yael Tomashov, Rita Kogan, Iudaica Russica, # 2 (5), 2020 pp. 5-27. Realism-4.0: Israeli Russophone Literature Today, Iudaica Russica, 1(2), 2019, pp. 5-22. Jewish fearless speech: towards a definition of Soviet Jewish nonconformism (F. Gorenshtein, F. Roziner, D. Shrayer-Petrov), East European Jewish Affairs, 48 (1), 2018, pp. 41-55. Crisis of the Victimary Paradigm in Contemporary Russian Literature in Israel (An applied case study of Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology), Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, XXIV, no. 1 Fall 2018. The First Shall Be the Last: Rethinking Antisemitism by Adam Katz and Eric Gans (review), Shofar, 36.2 (2018), pp. 80-83. Stam: The Unbearable Lightness of Banality, or On the Nature of Etgar Keret’s Humor, Ben-Gurion University Review, Winter 2018. ‘Eric Gans’ Thinking of Origin, Culture, and of the Jewish Question vis-a-vis Hermann Cohen’s Heritage,’ Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 23 (2), 2015, pp. 236—255. ‘Network and Sacrifice in the Novel I/e_rus.olim by Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis,’ Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 54 (2015), pp. 27-49. ‘Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: Neoeclectism And Beyond’, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 70:2, 2016, pp. 66-79.
‘Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago in the Eyes of the Israeli Writers and Intellectuals (A Minimal Foundation of Multilingual Jewish Philology),’ in Around the Point: Studies in Jewish Multilingual Literature, ed. Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman, Ber Kotlerman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 643—686. ‘Etgar Keret: The Minimal Metaphysical Origin.’ Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 67 (4), 2013, pp. 189—204. ‘Jewish Traditions: Active Gestural Practices in Religious Life,’ Body-Language-Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction, ed. by Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill, Sedinha Tessendorf. Series of Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Sciences. Berlin-New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013, 320—329. ‘Mordecai at the King’s Gate: A Few Introductory Remarks to Matvei Kagan’s ‘Vom Begriff der Geschichte’ (On the Concept of History),’ in Eastern European Jewish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics. Ed. by Klavdia Smola. Series: Die Welt der Slaven. München — Berlin — Washington/D.C., Verlag Otto Sagner, 2013, pp. 403—406. (As editor): Matvej Kagan. «Vom Begriff der Geschichte.» Briefe: Simon Gulko — Matvej Kagan." In: Eastern European Jewish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics. Series: Die Welt der Slaven. Ed. by Klavdia Smola. München — Berlin — Washington/D.C., Verlag Otto Sagner, 2013, pp. 406—432. ‘Matvei Kagan: Judaism and the European Cultural Crisis,’ Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, 21:1 (2013), pp. 73-103. ‘Love and Bewilderment: Matvei Kagan’s Literary Critical Concepts,’ Partial Answers. Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 11:1 (2013), pp. 9-28. ‘Cultural Rhetoric, Generative Anthropology, and Narrative Conflict,’ Anthropoetics 17, no. 2 (2012). ‘S.Y. Agnon’s Community Rhetoric: The heroism and crisis of power in two tales of gabbais (treasurers) from ‘Ir U-meloah (The City and All it Has in It)’, Hebrew Studies, 52, 2011, pp. 363—378. ‘An Invisible Gesture of A Jester: Body and Machine in The Idiot by F.M. Dostoevsky’, Toronto Slavic Quarterly 26 (2008). ‘Gestures Accompanying Torah Learning/Recital Among Yemenite Jews’, Gesture: The International Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gestures and Nonverbal Communication, 7:1 (2007), pp. 1-19. ‘Anthropoetic Gesture. A Key to Milorad Pavić’s Poetics (Landscape Painted with Tea)’, Toronto Slavic Quarterly 12 (2005). ‘The Miracle of Literature: An Ethical-Aesthetical Theory of Mythopoesis’, Analecta Husserliana LXXV (2002), pp. 211—231. ‘Dostoevsky’s A Raw Youth: Mythopoesis as the Dialectics of Absence and Presence’, The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review 1 (2000), pp. 85-95.
На иврите “My Thought Is Hungry”: The Hebrew Poetry of Gali-Dana Singer (in Hebrew), Mekhkarei Yerushalaim besifrut ivrit, 31 (2020), pp. 565-601. «The Parable and Its Lesson» by S. Y. Agnon and the Thinking of Historical Alternativeness, (in Hebrew), Mikan, 17 (2017), pp. 340—356. ‘Kotesh Grisin: The Alternative History of Agnon (‘Ha-mevakshim lahem rav,’ Ir u-Meloa),’ (in Hebrew), Dappim le-Mekhkar be-Sifrut, 19, 2014, pp. 7-43.
‘Miracle, Sincerity and Rhetoric in the Writing of S.Y. Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Ma’ase Sippur: Studies in Jewish Prose, vol. 3, ed. by Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky, Ramat-Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, 2013, pp. 307—332. ‘Sincerity, Rhetoric and Representation of Miracle in Literature’ (in Hebrew), Mi’kan 12 (2012), pp. 126—143. The Unrealized Cantors: The Community Rhetoric of S. Y. Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Ayin Gimel: A Journal of Agnon Studies, vol. 2, 2012, pp. 131—137. ‘From Buchach to Talpiot: On the Book of Dan Laor S. Y. Agnon (2008)’, (in Hebrew), Cathedra, 140, 2011, pp. 180—183. ‘The Brit of Historical Remembrance’, Zmanim, (in Hebrew), 116, 2011, pp. 111—113. ‘Gesture in Literature: Cognitive Processing and Cultural Semiosis (Case Study in Agnon’s Stories)’, (in Hebrew), Mekhkarey Yerushalaim be-sifrut ivrit (The Studies in Hebrew Literature), 22 (2008), pp. 407—436. ‘The Problem of Spontaneous Gestures in the Bible. A Case Study of Gestural Poetics’, (in Hebrew), Mikan 9 (2008), pp. 80-96. ‘Poetics of Gestures in the Writing of Milorad Pavic (Dictionary of Khazars)’ (in Hebrew), Dappim: Research in Literature 16-17, 2007—2008, pp. 383—400. ‘The Dance of Myths: Mythopoesis and Narrative Ethics’, (in Hebrew), Ma’ase Sippur: Studies in Jewish Prose, vol. 1, ed. by Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky, Bar Ilan University Press, 2005, pp. 431—446. ‘The Memory of the Body: The Novel-Myth by Meir Shalev Be’veito Be’midbar’, (in Hebrew), Dappim: Research in Literature, vol. 14-15, 2005, pp. 269—291. ‘Personality, Ethics and Ideology in the Postmodern Mythopoesis by Etgar Keret’ (in Hebrew), Mi’kan, 4 (January 2005), pp. 20-41. ‘The Myth of Myth-Creation in Ido ve-Eynam by Agnon’, (in Hebrew), Criticism & Interpretation (Bar Ilan University), 35-36 (2002), pp. 231—245. ‘Personal-Historical Conception of Myth in Forevermore by Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Alei-Siah 45 (Summer 2001), pp. 53-63. ‘Generative Anthropology in the Works by Agnon’ (in Hebrew), Proceedings of the 13 Congress of the World for Jewish Studies, 2001.
По-русски К разговору о теории русско-израильской литературы. Начало // Iudaica Russica, 1:14, 2025, pp. 1-27. Русско-израильская литература и "чудовищный двойник" // Iudaica Russica, 2 (11), 2023, pp. 1-24. Хазан В., Кацман Р., Жуховицкая Л. Г. «…Я был бы счастлив найти свое маленькое местечко в русской литературе…»: Письма Авраама Высоцкого Максиму Горькому // Литературный факт. 2020. № 1 (15). С. 115—174.