Ofri Ilany


Dr. Ofri Ilany is a historian, journalist, and literary critic. He is the editor-in-chief of Hzman Hazeh (These Times), a magazine of political thought, culture, and science founded by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Ilany is the author of In Search of the Hebrew People: Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment (Indiana University Press 2018).His column, Under the Sun, is published at Haaretz Weekly Supplement.


  • Return to Sodom

    22 February 2025

    Canonical gay art was once inextricably transgressive. Today, it’s free but saccharine. If, as artists believed merely decades ago, true freedom lives on in dystopia, who is today’s visionary Jean Genet?

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