Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli writer and historian of ideas. Her only short story, "The Scratch", won the first prize in the Ha'aretz short story competition of 1999. Her bestselling book "Israelis in Berlin" appeared in 2001, and sparked much debate both in Israel and in Germany. Just out is "Jews and Words" (Yale, November 2012), co-authored with Amos Oz: it is a father-and-daughter, novelist-and-historian, personal and playful take on Jewish history and continuity.Professor Oz-Salzberger's historical studies include numerous essays on intellectual history, focusing on political thought in early modern Europe, the Enlightenment, and the translation and transmission of ideas across cultures and languages.Fania lives with her family in Zichron Yaakov, Israel, and teaches at the University of Haifa. She occasionally catches her two sons reading real books, and few things are more delightful than that.