Eva Lezzi

Eva Lezzi was born in New York in 1963 and grew up in Zurich. She studied German and literary studies, earned her doctorate in Berlin, and completed her habilitation in Potsdam. Her scholarly publications include *Zerstörte Kindheit. Literarische Autobiographien zur Shoah* (2001), *Fremdes Begehren. Transkulturelle Beziehungen in Literatur, Kunst und Medien* (2003, edited with M. Ehlers), and *Dialog der Disziplinen. Jüdische Studien und Literaturwissenschaft* (2009, edited with Dorothea M. Salzer). As an author of children’s and young adult books, she has focused particularly on Jewish and transcultural themes. With Anna Adam, she published four volumes in the Beni children’s series.