Chaim Michael Vogt-Moykopf

Brief Personal Information

Chaim works currently as an interpreter and translator and on several publications. He taught German and Jewish German literature at the Université de Montréal (UdM) in Quebec, as part-time professor (chargé de cours) in the Department of German Studies until he finished his Ph.D. on Jewish Identity in Comparative Literature. The topic of his dissertation is: "The Sacred in the Profane: Sinai thinking in German Jewish Literature." He is married to Chaya. They have a little son named Hillel.

  Chaim lived and studied in several countries before he moved to Canada. He is a graduate of the UdM where he studied under Hans-Herbert Räkel, Jürgen Heizmann, Walter Moser and Amaryll Chanady. Diss. supervisors:

Marc-Alain Ouaknin (Bar-Ilan U., Israel)

Hans-Herbert Räkel (U. de Montréal, Québec, Canada).