Mordecai Walfish is a graduate student in Comparative Literary Studies and German.

In May 2007 he received his B.A. in Contemporary Studies and German from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research focuses on the intersection of continental philosophy and German literature. He is particularly interested in Heidegger and French post-Heideggerian thought. Other interests include the history of German Jewry, the ethics and politics of memory, and modern Yiddish literature.

Mordecai has also studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin on a DAAD scholarship and is a past delegate of the German Foreign Office’s Bridge of Understanding program.