Devorah Baum

Academic, director and filmmaker

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Occupation: film director
, scholar of English
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Spouse: Josh Appignanesi
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Notable work: Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone)
, The New Man

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Devorah Baum is a British academic, author, and filmmaker. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton, with research interests in representations of marriage, docufiction (cinema) and life-writing/autofiction (literature), humour, feelings, and psychoanalysis. She is known for her writing on Jewish identity and for co-directing the documentary films The New Man (2016) and Husband (2022). She has contributed to The Guardian, The New York Times, and Granta.

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TThe New Man2016 · 2016 film by Josh Appignanesi, Devorah Baum

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FFeeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone)2017 · book 2017

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Sex or gender: female
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Family name: Baum
Given name: Devorah

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