Omri Asscher is an Associate Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

His work deals with Jewish identities and ideologies in Israel and the United States through the prism of literary and theological translation; and, more generally, with translation phenomena in homeland-diaspora frameworks.

Some of his more recent projects deal with the changing landscape of translation in our globalized, digital era, and how advances in machine translation have influenced intercultural communication in ethically-charged situations.

Omri Asscher is interested in the role literary and theological translation plays in homeland-diaspora frameworks (particularly in Jewish historical contexts); in the interplay between translation, historiography, and memory; and in the workings and implications of translation phenomena in our globalized, digital era (particularly how machine translation mediates intercultural communication).

More generally, he is interested in any exploration of the role played by translation in the formation and circulation of ideas in our time.