About

Dr. Balslev is a historian of modern Iran, focusing on cultural and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her fields of interest include gender, sexuality, childhood studies, and everyday life. Her current project focuses on the history of children and childhood in Iran, circa 1870-1970. This project is being funded by the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 743/21).

Since 2018, Dr. Balslev has been a facultymember of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, where she teaches courses on modern Iran, its history, politicsand culture, as well as on social and cultural history of the modern Middle East.

Selected Publications

Review Article: Claus V. Pedersen. “Rise of the Persian Novel: From the Constitutional Revolution to Reza Shah 1910-1927. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016.” In Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 50, 2021, pp. 473-480.

 "Population Crisis, Marriage Reform and the Regulation of Male Sexuality in Interwar Iran", British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, August 2016

 "Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men, and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-1940" - Gender & History 26 (3), November 2014, pp. 545-564

"Shifting Sexual Norms in Nineteenth Century Iran" in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Scribner Macmillan, 2019), pp.1491-1494.

Selected Awards

2021-25 ISF individual grant – “A History of Children and Childhood in Modern Iran (circa 1870-1970),” grant no. 743/21, 4 year grant, 120,000 NIS per year. 

Teaching

2020: "History of Children and Childhood in the Middle East" – MA

2018: "Visual Culture in Modern Iran", Graduate Tutorial Reading.

2018-2020: "The Objects That Changed the Middle East", Undergraduate elective course.

2018-2020: "Culture and Resistance in Modern Iran" Undergraduate elective course.

2017-20: "Modern Iran" Undergraduate seminar.

2016, 2018, 2020: "Masculinity, Society and Politics in Modern Iran" – Undergraduate elective course.

About

Ben-Naeh is a historian of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire (16th century-early 20th century). His main interests include social history and cultural history. He is also interested in Palestine under the Ottomans.

Selected Publications

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewry in the Seventeenth Century, Mohr-Siebeck Press: Tübingen 2008

Nuh Arslantaş & Yaron Ben-Naeh, Ibranice Anonim bir kronik, Türk Tarih Kurumu: Ankara 2013

Yaron Ben-Naeh (author and ed.), Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Turkey, Ben Zvi Institute and Israel's Ministry of Education, Jerusalem 2010

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Sefer Korot Mishpaha: An Autobiography of a Sephardi of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem: A Soldier, a Rabbinic Scholar and an Author during a Change of an Era, Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi & Old Yishuv Court Museum: Jerusalem 2015

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Dan Shapira, & Aviezer Tutian, Debar Sepatayim: An Ottoman Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimea (1683-1730) Written by the Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno, Academic Press Printing: Boston, MA; 2021

Selected Awards

(2007) President Yitzhak Ben Zvi Prize for my book: Jews in the Realm of the Sultans (Hebrew version)

(2011) Marc Wiznitzer Prize for my book: Jews in the Realm of the Sultans (English)

Teaching

Sephardi Jews as Mirrored in Photography and Painting (1850-1950)

Sabbateanism: Myth and Reality

Peddlers and Prostitutes: Sephardi Lives in Yehudah Burla's Stories

Safed Jews in the Sixteenth Century

Family Life among Ottoman Jews 

Ottoman Jerusalem and is Jewish Community (Hebrew Souces/Arabic Sources)

Communal regulations - From Baghdad to Meknes

Authors, Readers and Printers

Ottoman-Jewish Wills as a Historical Source

Holy Men and Women (hagiographic stories)

Sephardi Autobiographies

Sephardi Communities in the Light of Communal Regulations

Palestine’s Jews during the Ottoman Period

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Bibliographical Tours: Hebrew Book Introductions

Jerusalem’s Sephardim 1800-1948

Jewish Questions: Guided Reading in Rabbinic Responsa from the Ottoman Empire

Hida’s Diary ‘Ma’agal Tov ha-Shalem’

In the Footsteps of the Emissaries (Shadarim)

About

Prof. Ram Ben-Shalom is Professor of Jewish History and co-editor of the Hispania Judaica Bulletin. Since October 2021, Ben-Shalom has served as the Chair of the department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on medieval European Jewish history and is a specialist in the Jewish–Christian discourse of the Middle Ages.

Selected Publications

R. Ben-Shalom, Facing Christian Culture: Historical Consciousness and Images of the Past among the Jews of Spain and Southern France during the Middle Ages [Hebrew], 2006, Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

R. Ben-Shalom, Medieval Jews and the Christian Past: Jewish Historical Consciousness in Spain and Southern France, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford 2016.

R. Ben-Shalom, The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church [Hebrew], The Open University of Israel, Raanana 2017.

Forthcoming, an English translation: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Liverpool University Press); In editing. 

R. Ben-Shalom, The Letter of Salomea, Carmel. Publishing House, Jerusalem (forthcoming). [Hebrew].

R. Ben-Shalom, “The First Jewish Work on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Virtues,” Mediaeval Studies, 75 (2013), pp. 205-270.

Selected Awards

2007 - Samuel Toledano Prize by the Misgav Institute in Jerusalem was awarded to the book "Facing Christian Culture: Historical Consciousness and Images of the Past among the Jews of Spain and Southern France during the Middle Ages (2006)", for its contribution to the Sephardi past in its Christian context.

2018 – Ben Zvi Institute Prize for the book "The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church (2017)".

2019 - "Am Olam" Prize of the Historical Society of Israel for the book "The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church (2017)".

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

The Jewish Renaissance in Medieval Provence

Jewish-Christian Polemics: History & Literature

Introduction to the History of the Jews in Spain

The Jews of Provence: Troubadours, Heretics and Mystics

The Jewish Culture in the 13th Century - A New World?

Jewish-Christian Encounter and Polemics

Under the Cross: Jewish Life in Medieval Europe

The Jews of Provence: Renaissance and Crisis

Facing the Cross: A Journey in Provence

Eros Romantics and Medieval Misogyny

Master's degree courses

The Jews in 15th Century Spain: Crisis or Flourishing?

The New language of Conversion in Christian Spain

Who is a Jew in Fifteenth Century Spain? Anusim, Jews and Christians

The Jews in Provence and the Mediterranean Sea.

History and Jewish Literature in Medieval Texts.

The Challenges of the 15th Century: Criticism and Intellectual Innovation

About

Prof. Galia Benziman is Associate Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on British literature of the long nineteenth century; in particular, on Dickens, Hardy, the history of childhood, and the Elegy.

Selected Publications

Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)

Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement (2018, Palgrave Macmillan)

“Dickens, Hard Times, and the Erasure of Female Origins,” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 2020

“Talking Birds and Talking to Birds: Transcending the Child in Barnaby Rudge,” Dickens Studies Annual 2021

“Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child,” in The Oxford Handbook to Charles Dickens, 2018

Selected Awards

Alon

Golda Meir

Fulbright

Rotenstreich

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Historical Approach to English Literature

Becoming Women - the Female Bildungsroman

Puritan, Romantic and Victorian Childhood

Versions of Pastoral

Master's degree courses

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About

Louise Bethlehem is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath (2006) was translated into Hebrew by the Resling imprint (2011). She has co-edited nine volumes on South African literature, anti-apartheid expressive culture, African studies and cultural studies and was the Principal Investigator of the prestigious European Research Council project, APARTHEID-STOPS between 2014-2019.

Selected Publications

1. Bethlehem, Louise and Tal Zalmanovich, (eds). (2020). “Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle.” Special edition of Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 34(1), 128 Pages. Taylor and Francis: London and New York.

2. Bethlehem, Louise. 2018. “Restless Itineraries: Anti-Apartheid Expressive Culture

                and Transnational Historiography.” Social Text 36 (3 [136]): 47-69. 

https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917766.

3. Bethlehem, Louise. 2018. “Continuity and Change in Postapartheid Fiction,” Oxford Research             Encyclopedias: Literature, DOI.10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.193

4. Bethlehem, Louise. 2013. “Lauren Beukes’s Post-Apartheid Dystopia: Inhabiting Moxyland,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(5): 522-534. Article featured in September 2015 among top twenty articles published in this journal in the previous five years.

5. Bethlehem, Louise. 2006. Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and Its Aftermath.  xvii + 145 Pages. Unisa (University of South Africa) Press, Pretoria; Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.

Selected Awards

Consolidators’ Grant European Research Council for the project APARTHEID-STOPS: “Apartheid the Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, 1948-1990.”

Teaching

Postcolonial Theory

Gender, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism

Postapartheid Literature

Globalization and Solidarity in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Modernism and Beyond

J.M. Coetzee: Postcolonial Metafiction

About

Michal Biran is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. Since October 2021, she has served as head of the Institute of Asian and African Study at HUJI.  She is a historian of Inner Asia, imperial China and the medieval Islamic world. She teaches in the departments of Asian Studies and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Biran has published extensively on the Mongol Empire, Mongol and pre-Mongol Central Asia (especially the Qara Khitai and the Chaghadaids), cross-cultural contacts between China, nomadic empires and the Muslim world, comparative study of empires, nomadic culture, migrations and mobility, and Ilkhanid Baghdad. 

Prof. Biran has authored or edited 12 books and volumes and authored dozens of articles. She has recently completed editing The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire along with Hodong Kim (2 vols. forthcoming 2022).

Selected Publications

1. Michal Biran. Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Presss, 1997. (Kindle edition 2013; Reprint: London: Routledge 2016).

2. Michal Biran. The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, 2008.

3. Michal Biran. Chinggis Khan. (“The Makers of the Muslim World”). Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2007 (Kindle edition 2012; Mongolian translation 2015; Turkish translation 2019).

4. Michal Biran, ed. Mobility and Transformation: Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient  62: 2-3 (2019).

5. Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. (Korean translation 2021).

Selected Awards

      2021-           Corresponding Member, The Austrian Academy of Sciences

2009, 2013, 2015     Excellent Teaching Award, HUJI

2014-          Fellow, The Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities

2014           The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science, HUJI 

2012-2017 The Anneliese Maier Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Asian Studies)

2007           The Landau Prize for Research and Sciences (History of East Asia and Its Cultures)

2006-9 -      The Michael Bruno Prize, The Rothschild Foundation (Middle Eastern Studies) {frozen 2007-2011 for personal reasons}

2004-5         The Yoram Ben-Porat Presidential Prize for Excelling Young Researcher, HUJI.

Teaching

Courses taught in the last 5 years (B.A., M.A.)

BA Courses (last 5 years):

Introduction to the History and Culture of Late Imperial China (906-1911) (Lesson, EAS).

The Silk Roads: Asia and the Muslim World in the Pre-Modern Era (Seminar, ME)

Between China and the Mideast: Issues in Central Asian History (Seminar, ME and  EAS).

The Mongols in the Islamic World (Seminar, ME).

Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern Muslim World (BA seminar, ME)

Honors Program in Chinese Studies (with Yuri Pines and Orna Naftali/ Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines) (EAS)

MA Courses (last 5 years):

Mobility and Transformation in Mongol Eurasia (ERC seminar 2015, 2017).

Silk Roads Encounters in North West China (Touring course in NW China, with Yuri Pines and Gideon Shelach, summer 2017, EAS)

 Eurasian Nomads in World History (ME, with Michael Shenkar 2019-20)

Issues in Ilkhanid History: The Mongols in Greater Iran (ME, 2021).

About

Menahem Blondheim is a member of the departments of History and of Communication& Journalism, and serves as the academic director of undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rothberg International School. Trained at the Hebrew University (BA) and Harvard University (MA and PhD), Prof. Blondheim studies the role communication plays in American and Jewish history, as well as the history and theory of communications and media technologies.

Selected Publications

1. News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-    1897. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. (305 pp.)

2. “Divine Comedy: The Jewish Orthodox Sermon in the United States." In: Multilingual America:          Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: New York University Press, 1998, pp. 191-214.

3. Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood’s Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Bloomington:

            Indiana University Press, 2006. (xi, 291 pp.)

4. “America’s Global Standing According to Popular News Sites from Around the World,”

            Political Communication 30: 1 (2013): 139-161 (with Elad Segev).

5. Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: Two Thousand years of Saying Goodbye without

            Leaving. New York: Israel Academic Press, 2020 (edited with Hananel Rosenberg).

Selected Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities

Covert Award (AEJMC)

Donald L. Shaw Lifetime Award for Outstanding Service to Journalism History

Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History

Excellence in Teaching Distinction, Hebrew University (awarded the prize numerous times)

About

Ruben Borg is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work has appeared in numerous journals devoted to twentieth-century literature and film. His research interests include Irish Modernism, twentieth-century philosophy (especially the work of Gilles Deleuze), and the influence of Dante on modernist writers. His current project is a book on James Joyce and emotion.

Selected Publications

“Three Articles of Posthuman Modernism: The Metacinema of Marcel L'Herbier (and Friends).” Modernism/modernity (Print +) 4.4 (March 2020).

Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.

“Putting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity.” Journal of Modern Literature 35.4 (Summer 2012): 163-180.

“Mirrored Disjunctions: On a Deleuzo-Joycean Theory of the Image,” Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (Spring 2010): 131-148.

The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum, 2007.

Selected Awards

Alon Fellowship (2008-2011)

ISF Grant

IFOBS Prize for best book-length publication on a Flann O'Brien theme (2019-2021)

Teaching

Narcissus on the Liffey: Image and Identity in Six Modern Irish Writers

Dante and Modernism

Spotlight Theory: Posthumanism

(BA) Paranoid Hermeneutics

The 19th Century British and American Novel

Modernism and Beyond

About

Prof. Breuer has been part of the Hebrew University research community forover 40 years, he is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He deals mainly with Talmudic Hebrew and Aramaic.

Selected Publications

The Hebrew in the Babylonian Talmud according to the Manuscripts of Tractate Pesahim, Jerusalem 2002

From Aramaic into Hebrew: the Method of Translation in the Book Hilkhot Re’u, Jerusalem 2020

“Perfect and Participle in Description of Ritual in the Mishnah”, Tarbiz LVI (1987), pp. 299-326

“Dissonance between Masoretic Accentuation and Vocalization in Verse Division of the Biblical Text”, M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Rabbi Mordechai Breuer Festschrift, Jerusalem 1992, pp. 191-242

“The Babylonian Aramaic in Tractate Karetot: According to MS Oxford”, Aramaic Studies 5.1 (2007), pp. 1–45

Teaching

Mishnaic Hebrew

Babylonian Aramaic

The Massora

The Language of S.Y. Agnon

Linguistic Studies in the Interpretation of the Bible

About

Prof. Raz Chen-Morris is an historian of early modern science. He studied at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Chen-Morris is currently the academic director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.

Selected Publications

Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013

Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.

Ofer Gal  and Raz Chen-Morris, “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt.”  Journal of the History of Ideas, 71:2, 2010, pp. 191-218

Raz Chen-Morris, "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe". Nuncius 35 (2020) 387–412.

Raz Chen-Morris, “The Fall of Icarus and Kepler’s Observations- Forbidden Knowledge, Curiosity and the Birth of New Science in the Seventeeth Century”. History 31-32 (2014) 105-138.

רז חן-מוריס, "נפילתו של איקרוס ותצפיותיו של קפלר -ידע אסור, סקרנות ולידתו של המדע החדש במאה השבע עשרה", היסטוריה 31-32 (תשע"ד), עמ' 105-138

Selected Awards

2006-2009-The Australian Research Council–supported project - The Imperfection of the Universe (DP0664046)

The Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas for 2010

2010-2011-Excellent lecturer award for distinguished teaching achievements, Bar Ilan University

2020-2023-ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 312/20): Geometry and the Making of Geometrical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to the history of early modern Europe

An intellectual history of science (part A): from Copernicus to Enlightenment

An intellectual history of science (part  B): from Newton to Freud

Continuity and Change in Scientific Thought from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th Century

HISTORIOGRAPHIC TEXTS - GREAT HISTORIC BOOKS

Places of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe

Astrology and Astronomy in the Renaissance

Science and Religion in the 17th Century

Humanism, Art and Science in the Renaissance

Sovereignty and Knowledge in the Age of Baroque

Master's degree courses

The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century - A Global Perspective

The Sense of Sight from the Age of Cathedrals to the Baroque

About

Prof. Hillel Cohen was born in 1961 in Jerusalem. Cohen studies the dynamics between the Zionist movement (and later the state of Israel) and the Palestinian Arabs, as well as the history of Jewish-Muslims relations prior to Zionism, and the history of Mizrahi (aka Oriental) Jews before and after 1948.

Selected Publications

Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators in the Service of Zionism 1917-1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Good Arabs: The Israeli Intelligence and the Israeli Arabs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).

The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Politics and the City 1967-2007 (London: Routledge, 2011).

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2015).

Selected Awards

Ben Zvi Prize for the best book on Israel history for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929.

Azrieli Institute Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Concordia University; for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

The Palestinians: Political and Social History (B.A. seminar)

Zionism and the Arabs

Jerusalem - al-Quds

Jewish-Muslim relations from Muhammad to present: selected topics

Master's degree courses

1948: The real story (MA seminar)

Sephardi and Oriental Jews: History and Identity (MA seminar)
 

Research Fields

Zionist ideology and practice

Palestinian society and politics

Palestinian collaborators and Israel's intelligence agencies

Mizrahi Jews

Palestinian refugees

Jerusalem

holy places

al-Aqsa

Religion and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Islam and Judaism - Jews and Muslims

Palestine under the British mandate

Land issues

About

Prof. Hillel Cohen was born in 1961 in Jerusalem. Cohen studies the dynamics between the Zionist movement (and later the state of Israel) and the Palestinian Arabs, as well as the history of Jewish-Muslims relations prior to Zionism, and the history of Mizrahi (aka Oriental) Jews before and after 1948.

Selected Publications

Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators in the Service of Zionism 1917-1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Good Arabs: The Israeli Intelligence and the Israeli Arabs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).

The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Politics and the City 1967-2007 (London: Routledge, 2011).

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2015).

Selected Awards

Ben Zvi Prize for the best book on Israel history for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929.

Azrieli Institute Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Concordia University; for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

The Palestinians: Political and Social History (B.A. seminar)

Zionism and the Arabs

Jerusalem - al-Quds

Jewish-Muslim relations from Muhammad to present: selected topics

Master's degree courses

1948: The real story (MA seminar)

Sephardi and Oriental Jews: History and Identity (MA seminar)

About

Trained as a lawyer (LLM from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and as an Egyptologist (theHebrew University of Jerusalem), Arlette David has published various interdisciplinary studies on the ancient Egyptian legal system, its conceptual frame, textual productions, linguistic registers, and legal categorization embedded in the hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts. Today, Prof. David investigates the interplay between pictures, script, and texts in various contexts, with new analyses of Egyptian works of art. Her recent work concerns pictures of kingship at the times of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Karnak and Amarna.

Selected Publications

2021 Book: Renewing Royal Imagery - Akhenaten and Family in the Amarna Tombs (https://brill.com/view/title/57605)

2021 Article: “Akhenaten and Nefertiti's Morning Toilet in Karnak” (Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2)

2021 Article: “Akhenaten's Window and the Aegean Connection” (Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 30)

2010 Book: The Legal Register of Ramesside Private Law Instruments (Harrassowitz)

2006 Book: Syntactic and Lexico-Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees (Harrassowitz)

Selected Awards

Prize of the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Contest 1986

Max Schlomiuk Prize 2003

Teaching

B.A.

Reading Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Ancient Egyptian Artists: Life, Work, Models, Techniques

Middle Egyptian for beginners

Middle Egyptian intermediary level

Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Art and Culture (Predynastic to Second Intermediate Period)

Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Art and Culture (New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period) 

Art as a System of Signs: Decoding Ancient Egyptian Images

Patterns of continuity and change in ancient Egyptian art

M.A.

Despair, Disgust, and Life's Chaos: Ancient Egyptian Laments

Ramesside for Beginners

Egypt in Israel: Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found in Israel

Entertaining an Egyptian King with Tales of Magic: Papyrus Westcar

Ancient Egyptian Artifacts: Magic and the Senses

Killing Pharaoh: The Teaching of King Amenemhat I

Shipwrecked in Wonderland: An Ancient Egyptian Mythical Narrative

Working with Ancient Egyptian Material Culture

Contribution of ancient Egyptian law to the history of thought

Ancient Egyptian tales of adventure

The Levant and Egypt, archaeology and art: cultural transfers 

About

Dr. Uri Davidovich is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Biblical Section. His research interests revolve around environmental and landscape archaeology, especially of marginal landscapes; field and analytical methods of archaeological surveys; regional archaeology of the Judean Desert; human activity in natural caves; and the development of complex societies surrounding the transition to urbanism (Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age). Davidovich’s current studies include: settlement dynamics in the Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age and early urbanization in the southern Levant, involving multi-annual excavations at the mega-site of Tel Qedesh; archeology and landscape of refuge in cliff caves of the Judean Desert during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age; environmental and cultural changes in the Judean Desert during the Holocene (together with Dr. Nimrod Marom, University of Haifa); and comparative archaeology of ancient activity patterns in complex caves in the southern Levant.

Selected Publications

Davidovich U.PI, Ullman M.PI, Langford B.C, Frumkin A.C, Langgut D.C, Yahalom-Mack N.C, Abramov J.C, Marom N.C 2018. “Distancing the dead: Late Chalcolithic burials in large maze caves in the Negev Desert, Israel.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 379: 113-152. DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.379.0113

Wachtel I.PI, Davidovich U.PI, corres. auth. 2021. “Qedesh in the Galilee: The emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine megasite.” Journal of Field Archaeology 46: 260-274. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2021.1901025

Lazagabaster I.A.PI, Rovelli V.PI, Fabre P.-H.C, Porat R.C, Ullman M.C, Davidovich U.C*, Lavi T.C, Ganor A.C, Klein E.C, Weiss K.C, Nuriel P.C, Meiri M.C, Nimrod MaromPI. 2021. “Rare crested rat subfossils unveil Afro-Eurasian ecological corridors synchronous with early human dispersals.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021: 118(31): e2105719118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105719118

Mascher M.PI, Schünemann V.J.PI, Davidovich U.C, Himmelbach A.C, Hübner S.C, Fahima T.C, Korol A.C, David M.C, Marom N.C, Riehl S.C, Schreiber M.C, Vohr S.H.C, Green R.E.C, Dawson I.K.C, Russell J.C, Kilian B.C, Muehlbauer G.J.C, Waugh R.C, Krause J.PI, Weiss E.PI, Stein N.PI 2016. “Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley.” Nature Genetics 48: 1089-1093. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3611

Davidovich U.PI, Porat N.PI, Gadot Y.PI, Avni Y.C, Lipschits O.PI 2012. “Archaeological investigations and OSL dating of terraces at Ramat Rahel, Israel.” Journal of Field Archaeology 37: 192-208.

Selected Awards

Rothschild Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Rotenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Humanities, National Council for Higher Education

Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University

President Fellowship, HU Honors Program for excelled PhD Students in the Humanities, The Hebrew University

The Bernard M. Bloomfield Prize for excelled PhD Dissertation, The Hebrew University

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

GIS applications in Archaeology

Introduction to Spatial Archaeology

Caves and complex societies

Unsuccessful revolution: The Chalcolithic period

The Negev, Arabah and Edom in the Iron Age

Regional Campus: Judean Desert

Advanced survey and Regional Analysis

Bronze Age Landscapes

In the footsteps of kings and rebels: Judean Desert during the Roman and Byzantine periods

Topics in Biblical Archaeology: Violence and its archaeological expressions (B.A Seminar)

Regional Campus: Golan Heights

The Early Bronze Age I in the Southern Levant

Regional Archaeology: From Theory to Practice (in collaboration with G. Shelach-Lavi)

The Ghassulian Culture: Society, Economy and Cult

Early Pottery (in collaboration with N. Panitz-Cohen)

Introduction to the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant: 8th-4th Millenia B.C.
 

Master's degree courses

Topics in Biblical Archaeology - Transitions (M.A Seminar, in collaboration with N. Yahalom-Mack)

Topics in Biblical Archaeology - Borders and Boundaries (M.A Seminar, in collaboration with N. Yahalom-Mack)

The Desert and the Sown in the Levant (M.A Seminar, in collaboration with I. Sharon)

About

Jonathan Dekel-Chen is the Rabbi Edward Sandrow Chair in Soviet & East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current research and publications deal with transnational philanthropy and advocacy, non-state diplomacy, agrarian history and migration. In 2014, Dekel-Cohen co-founded the Bikurim Youth Village for the Arts, which provides world-class artistic training for under-served high school students from throughout Israel.

Selected Publications

Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1923-1941. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Editor (with David Gaunt, Natan Meir, Israel Bartal), Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Editor (with Eugene Avrutin and Robert Weinberg), Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

“Between Myths, Memories, History and Politics: Creating Content for Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.” The Public Historian 40, no. 4 (2018): 91-106.

 “Putting Agricultural History to Work: Global Action Today from a Communal Past.” Featured article in: Agricultural History 94, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 512-544.

Selected Awards

2005-2008  Israel Science Foundation Award, “A World of Good: Jewish Philanthropy and Politics

in Russia and the USSR, 1890s-1990s”.

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines, Hebrew University, 2007.

Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009.

Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2008-2009.

Israel Institute Visiting Professor at Columbia University, N.Y., 2015-2016

Bildner Visiting Scholar at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University.

Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award for the best article in Agricultural History from the Agricultural History Society for “Putting Agricultural History to Work: Global Action Today from a Communal Past” (Issue 94, no. 4 [2020]: 512-544).

Teaching

“From Revolution to Crisis: Russia, 1789-1855.”

 “From Crisis to Revolution: Russia, 1856-1917.”

 “Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Israel”

“From Bukhara to Brooklyn: Modern East European Jewry”

“The Jewish Farmer in Modern Times.” (M.A.)

"Jewish Politics and Philanthropy in the 20^th Century" (M.A.)

"The Global Campaign for Soviet Jewry: Moscow, Washington, London, Jerusalem” (M.A.)

"Diplomacy and Philanthropy in the Modern Jewish World" (M.A.)

"Jewish and Non-Jewish Migration in the Modern World: Theory and Practice" (M.A.)

“Kibbutz: Beginnings, Glory, the End?” (M.A.)

About

Dr. Aya Elyada is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem History Department and a permanent academic member at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. She joined the Hebrew University in 2012, and since October 2020 she has been serving as the Chair of the History Department. Her current book project explores the place of Old Yiddish literature in modern German and German-Jewish culture.

Selected Publications

Protestant Scholars and Yiddish Studies in Early Modern Europe,” Past and Present 203 (2009), 69-98"

A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, 280 pp.

Zwischen Austausch und Polemik: Christliche Übersetzungen jiddischer Literatur im Deutschland der Frühneuzeit," Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 69 (2017), 47-73"

Early Modern Yiddish and the Jewish Volkskunde, 1880-1938," Jewish Quarterly Review 107 (2017), 182-208"

Contested Heritage: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Yiddish Biblical Literature in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Zion: A Quarterly for the Research of Jewish History 86:4 (2021), 563-91 [in Hebrew]"

Selected Awards

2012-2015 Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Israeli Council for Higher Education

2013-2017 "Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG), "From Yiddish into German: A Cultural History of Translation

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

The Protestant Reformation as a Theological, Social, and Cultural Revolution

Luther, the Reformation and the German Language

Religion and Society in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Poverty and Crime in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Subordinated Groups in Early Modern Germany

Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Germany

Christian-Jewish Relations in the First Reich: 1096-1648

Women and Gender in the Protestant Reformation

Books and Readers in Early Modern Germany

Master's degree courses

Language and Identity in Early Modern Germany

The Yiddish-German Encounter Throughout the Ages

Christian Hebraism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Hebrew-Yiddish-German: Cultural History of Language
 

About

Simcha Emanuel (born in Jerusalem, 1957), is a Professor in the Department of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Ludwig Jesselson Chair of Codicology and Paleography. Emanuel is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Selected Publications

1. Simcha Emanuel (2006), Fragments of the Tablets: Lost Books of the Tosaphists, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (387 pp.; in Hebrew)

2. Simcha Emanuel (2012), Responsa of Rabbi Me'ir of Rothenburg and his Colleagues, World Union of Jewish Studies: The Rabbi David Moses and Amalia Rosen Foundation, Jerusalem (two volumes, 1251 pp.; in Hebrew).

3. Simcha Emanuel (2015-2019), Hidden Treasures from Europe, Mekize Nirdamim Press, Jerusalem (two volumes; 501 + 408 pp.; in Hebrew).

4. Simcha Emanuel (2021), The Crown of the Wise, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (230 pp.; in Hebrew).

5. Simcha Emanuel (2011), 'Pregnancy without Sexual Relations in Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Thought', Journal of Jewish Studies, 62, pp. 105-120.

Selected Awards

The Council for Higher Education Yigal Alon Fellowship (1996-1998).

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (The Hebrew University, 2009).

Rav Kook Prize for Talmud Research (Tel Aviv Municipality, 2012).

About

Dr. Amir Engel is a lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem German department. He studied philosophy, literature and culture-studies at the Hebrew University and completed his PhD at the German studies department at Stanford University, California, USA. Subsequently, Engel taught and conducted research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics of interest include German Romanticism and German postwar literature and culture, theories of myth, literature and philosophy and history of culture. He is also interested in intercultural transference, Jewish German culture, and German 20th century intellectual history. He has written a book about Gershom Scholem and has published articles about Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Martin Buber, Jacob Taubes, Salomon Maimon and others.

Selected Publications

Amir Engel, Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) (Paperback edition Summer 2019).

Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture. Eds. Amir Engel and Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 445 pp.

Amir Engel, “A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt’s Postwar Reading of Kafka” in Kafka after Kafka Eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber (Rochester: Camden House), 2019, 29-44.

Amir Engel, “Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West-Germany,” New German Critique 140, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2020, 1- 20.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Love and Romantics in German Literature (Fall-Spring 2018-9)

Literature after the Catastrophe: Postwar German Culture (Spring 2019)

Freud-Nietzsche-Marx: Meditations on a Changing World (Fall 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2018)

The German Enlightenment (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2017)
 

Master's degree courses

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About

Prof. David Enoch has served on the faculty of Hebrew University - on a joint appointment in philosophy and law - since graduatating from NYU in 2003.

Prof. Enoch works primarily about moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Selected Publications

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism (Oxford University Press, 2011).

“False Consciousness for Liberals, Part I: Consent, Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences”, The Philosophical Review 129 (2020), 159-210.

“Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone” (co-authored with Levi Spectre), forthcoming in Synthese, available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03042-6

“Is General Jurisprudence Interesting?” In Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence (edited by David Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh) (Oxford University Press, 2019).

"Autonomy as Sovereignty, Autonomy as Non-Alienation, and Politics", forthcoming in             The Journal of Political Philosophy.

Selected Awards

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

About

Prof. Fassberg teaches and researches Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic dialectology, Northwest Semitics, and Comparative Semitic philology. He has served in several administrative positions at the university and is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

Selected Publications

Studies in the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (סוגיות בתחביר המקרא). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. 202 pp. (in Hebrew)

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa. Semitic Languages and Linguistics 54. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 314 pp. + XVIII.

An Introduction to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (מבוא לתחביר לשון המקרא). Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 36. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2019. 286 pp. +  XXI.

Teaching

Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblical Hebrew

Comparative Semitic Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology

Hebrew and the Semitic Languages

Hebrew Morphology

Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls

History of the Hebrew Language (from Its Origins to the End of the Amoraic Period)

Introduction to Aramaic (Parts I and II)

Language of Biblical Poetry

Language of the Book of Job

Late Western Aramaic

Old Aramaic Inscriptions

Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions

Ugaritic

Western Neo-Aramaic

About

Prof. Miriam Frenkel is professor in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s  Department of Jewish History and the Institute of History. She is The Menahem Ben Sasson Chair in Judaism and Islam through the Ages, head of the Institute of History, and Vice President of the Society for Judeo-Arabic Studies [SJAS].

Selected Publications

Miriam Frenkel, `The Compassionate and Benevolent`: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021

Miriam Frenkel (ed.), The Jews in Medieval Egypt, Boston, ASP, 2021

Miriam Frenkel. Alison Salvesen, Sarah Pierce (eds.), Israel in Egypt, Leiden, Brill, 2020

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Portraits of Conspicuous Figures in Medieval Jewish History in the Lands of Islam

The Jews of Islam: Historical and Social Perspectives

Tutorial teaching for outstanding undergraduate students at the School for History

Introduction to Medieval Jewish History (Cornerstones Program)

Jews and Judaism in Medieval Islamic Lands

Introduction to Jewish Medieval History in the Lands of Islam; Jewish Marginal Groups and Individuals in the Medieval Lands of Islam 

In the Footsteps of Travelers and Travelogues in the Middle East

Daily Life in History (Cornerstones Program)

Master's degree courses

Literary Activities and Products of the Judeo-Arabic Culture

The Mediterranean as System, Idea and Vision

Jewish Material Culture in the Lands of Islam and Christianity

Jewish Ritual Poetry (piyyut)

Jewish Religious Life in the Lands of Islam

 Mysticism, Magic, and Messianism among the Jews in the Lands of Islam

Basic Themes in the History and Culture of Mizrahi Jews

Jewish Material Culture in the Mdieval Lands of Islam
 

About

Dr. Yair Furstenberg is a scholar of early rabbinic literature. His research focuses on the emergence of the early rabbinic literature in the first centuries of the CE and the history of rabbinic law within its Greco-Roman context. In his publications, Furstenberg examines the development of Jewish legal discourse during the Second Temple and the early rabbinic period, as well as its relationship to  Jesus traditions. His current project aims to examine rabbinic legal activity into its Roman provincial context.

Selected Publications

Y. Furstenberg, ‘Jesus against the Laws of the Pharisees: The Legal Woe Sayings and Second Temple Inter-Sectarian Discourse,’ Journal of Biblical Literature 139 (2020): 767-786

Y. Furstenberg, “Provincial Rabbis: Shaping Rabbinic Divorce Procedure in a Roman Legal Environment”, Jewish Quarterly Review 109 (2019): 471-499

Y. Furstenberg, “From Tradition to Controversy: New Modes of Transmission in the Teachings of Early Rabbis”, Tarbiz 85 (2018): 587-641 [Hebrew]

Y. Furstenberg, ‘Imperialism and the Creation of Local Law: The Case of Rabbinic Law’, K. Berthelot, N. B. Dohrmann and C. Nemo-Pekelman (eds.), Legal Engagement: The Reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire, Ecole française de Rome 2021, pp. 271-300.

Y. Furstenberg, Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism, Indiana University Press (forthcoming). [Hebrew version:  Purity and Community in Antiquity: Traditions of the Law from Second Temple Judaism to the Mishnah, Magnes Press, 2016]

Selected Awards

The Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for Best First Book in the History of the Land of Israel, for Purity and Community in Antiquity. Awarded by Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament 

Introduction to the Mishnah 

The World of the Talmud: Study Culture 

The World of the Talmud: Cultural and Religious Contexts

The Temple in the Mishnah: Tractate Yoma

Introduction to Halakhic Midrashim

Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael: Halakhah and Aggadah

Introduction to the Tosefta

Master's degree courses

Tractate Neziqin: Between the Bible and the Greco-Roman World 

The Temple between Mishnah and Tosefta

Early Halakhic Literature: The Damascus Document.

 Marriage and Family in Early Rabbinic Law

About

Prof. Uri Gabbay's research focuses on cuneiform tablets written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages.

Selected Publications

U. Gabbay, Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium BC, Wiesbaden 2014

U. Gabbay, The Eršema Prayers of the First Millennium BCE, Wiesbaden 2015

U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries, Boston/Leiden 2016

Selected Awards

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Beginner's Sumerian
  • Beginner's Akkadian
  • Sumerian and Akkadian textual courses
  • The Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia
     
• Master's degree courses
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About

Dr. Noam Gal (PhD, Yale 2012), scholar and curator of the arts in the camera-age, is a senior lecturer at the Art History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between 2013-2021 he served as Chief Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum Jerusalem. Gal's main exhibition projects featured the art of Richard Avedon, Berenice Abbott, Ron Amir, Ilit Azoulay, Tomoko Sawada, Roi Kuper, Micha Bar-Am, and Chen Cohen. Gal is the curator and author of A Modern Love, the first survey in Hebrew of modernism in photography. Gal's essays appeared internationally in Critical Arts, African Identities, The Art Journal, Photographies along with numerous local venues. His book project Compressions: Israeli Art in the Third Millennium is forthcoming in 2023.

Selected Publications

1. Noam Gal, “Joint Spectatorship: Experiments with Photography,” Photographies Vol. 15 (3), 2022 (forthcoming).

2. Noam Gal, “When Seeing Expires: Art History and the Work of Alison Rossiter,” Art Journal Vol. 81 (1), 2022, pp. 27-43.

3. Noam Gal, "Theodor Herzl Is Yael Bartana, Rereading Jewish History Through Photography, Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan and Ofer Ashkenazi eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2022).

Teaching

B.A. courses

History of Light: Introduction to the Art of Photography

Cutting Contemporary Art

Great View: Introduction to the Philosophies of Art

Israeli Art in the Third Millenium

         M.A. courses

Regarding Now: Philosophies of Contemporary Art

Hang The Curator: Critiques of the Museum

Performance: Art Against Life

Reel Time: from Photography to Video-Art and Back

About

Jonathan Garb holds the Gershom Scholem Chair in Kabbalah, and lectures, beisdes his own department, in the department of Religious Studies.

He has lectured and researched, amongst other centers, in L'école des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), Johns Hopkins University, New York University and University of Hamburg.

Selected Publications

•           2020. A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press.

•           2016. Modern Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research. Cherub Press: Los Angeles (in Hebrew).

•           2015. The Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

•           2014. Kabbalist in the Eye of the Storm: R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto. Tel Aviv University Press (in Hebrew).

•           2011. Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

Selected Awards

2010:               President’s Prize for Outstanding Researcher (Pollack Family                         Foundation). Hebrew University.

2014                Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Israel Academy of              Sciences and Humanities.

2021 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality

in the Humanistic Disciplines, Hebrew University

Teaching

Ba:

Writings of the Generaitons of Habad (2-5)

Religion and: Facism, Psychology, Social Theory, Political Theory, Embodiment

MA:

Readings of : Gate of Kavvanot, Leshem shvu ve ahalama

Niggun in Jewish Culture (taught with Prof. Edwin Serrousi)

The Doctrine of Evil in Kabbalah

About

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel was born in Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Archaeology and Geography, his Master of Arts degree in Prehistory and Biblical Archaeology  and completed his PhD on the Pottery Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods. Since 1993, Garfinkel has been teaching archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Periods at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s  Institute of Archaeology. Garfinkel has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kings College in London. Over the years, he has conducted excavations at various Proto-historic sites in Israel, including  Yiftahel, Gesher, Tel Ali, Sha'ar Hagolan, Neolithic Ashkelon and Tel Tsaf.

In 2007 Garfinkel began the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, where, for the first time in the archaeology of Israel, a fortified city from the time of King David had been uncovered. Between 2013 and 2017 Garfinkel  excavaed at the biblical city of Lachish, the second most important city in Judah (second only to Jerusalem). Since 2015 he has been excavating at Khirbet al-Ra'i, another site in Judah from the time of King David.

Selected Publications

Y. Garfinkel, 2003. Dance at the Dawn of Agriculture. Austin: Texas University Press.

Y. Garfinkel and M. Mumcuoglu, 2016. Solomon’s Temple and Palace: New Archaeological Discoveries. Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem & Biblical Archaeology Society.

Y. Garfinkel, I. Kreimerman and P. Zilberg, 2016. Debating Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor and M. Hasel, 2018. Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 4. Excavation Report 2009–2013: Art, Cult and Epigraphy. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor and M. Hasel, 2018. Footsteps of King David in the Valley of Elah. London: Thames & Hudson.

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Polonsky Book Prize 2006 for creativity and originality in the Humanities for the

book Dance at the Dawn of Agriculture

About

Prof. Raz Chen-Morris is an historian of early modern science. He studied at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Chen-Morris is currently the academic director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.

Selected Publications

Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013

Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.

Ofer Gal  and Raz Chen-Morris, “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt.”  Journal of the History of Ideas, 71:2, 2010, pp. 191-218

Raz Chen-Morris, "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe". Nuncius 35 (2020) 387–412.

Raz Chen-Morris, “The Fall of Icarus and Kepler’s Observations- Forbidden Knowledge, Curiosity and the Birth of New Science in the Seventeeth Century”. History 31-32 (2014) 105-138.

רז חן-מוריס, "נפילתו של איקרוס ותצפיותיו של קפלר -ידע אסור, סקרנות ולידתו של המדע החדש במאה השבע עשרה", היסטוריה 31-32 (תשע"ד), עמ' 105-138

Selected Awards

2006-2009-The Australian Research Council–supported project - The Imperfection of the Universe (DP0664046)

The Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas for 2010

2010-2011-Excellent lecturer award for distinguished teaching achievements, Bar Ilan University

2020-2023-ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 312/20): Geometry and the Making of Geometrical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to the history of early modern Europe

An intellectual history of science (part A): from Copernicus to Enlightenment

An intellectual history of science (part  B): from Newton to Freud

Continuity and Change in Scientific Thought from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th Century

HISTORIOGRAPHIC TEXTS - GREAT HISTORIC BOOKS

Places of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe

Astrology and Astronomy in the Renaissance

Science and Religion in the 17th Century

Humanism, Art and Science in the Renaissance

Sovereignty and Knowledge in the Age of Baroque

Master's degree courses

The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century - A Global Perspective

The Sense of Sight from the Age of Cathedrals to the Baroque

About

Leore Grosman is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology and the head of the Computational Archaeology Laboratory that apply tools from mathematics and computer sciences to modern archaeological research. As a prehistoric archaeologist she is engaged in research exploring the transformation from the hunting and gathering subsistence mode to that of farming, a transition that irrevocably changed the human world. The focus of her research is the Levantine Corridor, and she is the director of the Terminal Palaeolithic excavations projects at Hilazon Tachtit Cave, Nahal Ein-Gev II in Northern Israel.

Selected Publications

Grosman, L. 2016. Reaching the Point of No Return: The Computational Revolution in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (1):129-145.

Grosman, L., A. Muller, I. Dag, H. Goldgeier, O. Harush, G. Herzlinger, K. Nebenhaus, F. Valetta, T. Yashuv, and N. Dick. In Press. Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE.

Grosman, L., and N. D. Munro. 2016. A Natufian Ritual Event. Current Anthropology 57 (3):311-331.

Grosman, L., N. D. Munro, I. Abadi, E. Boaretto, D. Shaham, A. Belfer-Cohen, and O. Bar-Yosef. 2016. Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee. PLoS ONE 11 (1):e0146647.

Grosman, L., N. D. Munro, and A. Belfer-Cohen. 2008. A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (46):17665-17669.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Computational Archaeology

The Origins of Agriculture: Levant, America and China

Transitional periods in Prehistory

Human Prehistory

Levantine Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Entities

Scientific Topics in Archaeology

Research of Human Prehistory in the 21st Century

Modern Human expansion to Europe

Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology

Topics in Levantine prehistory (seminar)

Master's degree courses

Field Archaeology

Developments of prehistoric closed spaces – to the Neolithic house

Computation Archaeology in 3-D

Topics in Prehistoric Archaeology (seminar)

Geo-Archaeology (seminar)

About

David Guedj is a member of the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. He is a historian of the Jews in Muslim lands, specializing in the culture and society of North African Jewish communities in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. His current research investigates the development and modernization of polyglot book culture in 20^th century Morocco.

Selected Publications

1. David Guedj, The Hebrew Culture in Morocco, 1912-1956, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2022. (Hebrew)

2. “Jeune Israël: Multiple Modernities of Jewish Childhood and Youth in Morocco in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 112:2 (2022): 316-343.

3. “Double tendance: The Photographic Message in the Egyptian Jewish Youth Magazine L’Illustration Juive, 1929-1931”, Images: a Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 12 (2019): 56-69.

4. “Post-Second World War praise poetry, lament and a Utopian treatise in Morocco: historical literature on the theme of the Second World War”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17,4 (2018): 455-471.

5. “The Distribution of Heirless Books by the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction to Morocco”, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 15(2018): 63-72.

Teaching

B.A.

North African Jews from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century

North Africa's Jews during WW2

Education in Jewish society in MENA

M.A.

Issues in the history of the jews in MENA

Study tour through Jewish Morocco

About

Born in Israel in 1976, Prof. Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002. In 2019, following the international success of his books, Yuval Noah Harari and Itzik Yahav co-founded Sapienship, a social impact company with projects in the fields of entertainment and education. Sapienship’s main goal is to make the public conversation focus on the most important global challenges facing the world today

Selected Publications

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Sapiens: A Graphic History (Series)

Selected Awards

Honorary doctorate from VUB (the Free University of Brussels (2019)

 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality (2012 and 2009)

The Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles on military history (2011)

Teaching

Technology and the Future of Humanity

The Laws of History

A Guide for Data Revolutionists

The Crusades and the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Humans and Other Animals

The History of the Future        

History for the Masses

The Medieval World    

Identities: Looking for Meaning

The World of Medieval People 

The Future of Humankind     
 

About

Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies

Selected Publications

Islam and Salvation in Palestine (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2001), 180 pp.

Identity Politics in the Middle East: Liberal Thought and Islamic Challenge in Egypt (London: I.B. Tauris, March 2007), 270 pp.

Ulama, Politics and the Public Sphere: An Egyptian Perspective (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2010), 244 pp.

Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Piety, Power and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 276 pp.

Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 272 pp.

Selected Awards

The Golda Meir Fellowship Fund, 2006

Competitive grants: ISF (2003-2005, 2007-2010, 2013-2016, 2019-2022)

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Egypt in the Modern Era

Religion and State in the Middle East

Protest and Revolution in Modern Islam: A Comparative Perspective

Religious Culture Contested: Sufism in Modern Times

Ulama, Sufis and the Challenges of Modernity

On Sacrifice and Death in Modern Islam: A Comparative Perspective

Arab Liberalism: Intellectual and Political History

Speaking Truth to Power: Intellectuals and Revolution in the Middle East

Between the Madrasa and the Market: Religious Knowledge and Chrisma in Modern Islam

Introduction to the Modern Middle East

The Muslim Brotherhood: A Modern Mass Movement

Modern Arabic Thought: Selected themes

Palestinian Islam

Global Jihad in Historical Perspective: Thought, Politics and Violence

Islamic Protestanism: An Unfinished Project?

Revolution and Society: Marginal People in Egyptian Cinema, 1952-1970

Master's degree courses

Continuity and Change in Sufi Culture: Selected Issues (together with Prof. Sara Sviri, Department of Arabic Language and Literature)

Theology and Power in the Middle East: Method and History

Liberal Thought in Egypt

Critical Arab Thought: Selected Essays

Methodological Approaches in the Study of Islam and the Middle East

Martyrdom in Medieval Islamic Thought

Zionism and Israel in the Arab Liberal Thought

Nineteenth-Century Salafiyya and Enlightenment

Autobiographies as a Historical Source in the Study of Modern Arab Culture

Historical Myths and Modern Politics

About

Dr. Helman is a social historian whose books focus on Mandate Era Palestine and 1950s Israel.

Selected Publications

Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities (Lebanon NH: Brandeis UP and UPNE, 2010).

A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel (Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2011).

Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s (Lebanon NH: Brandeis University Press and University Press of New England, 2014).

Consumer Culture and Leisure in the Young State of Israel (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2020). [in Hebrew]

Selected Awards

2004 – The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.

2008 – The Mordechai Ish-Shalom Prize (Yad Ben-Zvi) for "first-fruit" book on Israel History. 

2008 – The Shapiro Prize for best book in Israel Studies (Association of Israel Studies).

2021 – The Erika and Dr. Netanel Lorch Prize for best book on Israeli History.

Teaching

Consolidating a Hebrew National Culture in the Land of Israel

Visual Culture in Eretz Yisrael

Israel: The First Decade

Jews and Sport, 1780-1939

About

Prof. Yitzhak Hen is an historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Professor Hen’s research focuses on the social, cultural and intellectual history of the post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval West; Western Liturgy; early medieval Latin Palaeography and Codicology.

Selected Publications

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877), Henry Bradshaw Society, subsidia 3 (Boydell & Brewer: London, 2001)

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Palgrave-Macmillan: London and New York, 2007)

Sermo doctorum: Compilers, Preachers and Their Audiences in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Max Diesenberger and Marianne Pollheimer (Brepols: Turnhout, 2014)

Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Tom F.X. Noble (Brepols: Turnhout, 2018)

East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective, co-edited with Stefan Esders, Yaniv Fox and Laury Sarti (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2019)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Introduction to Middle Ages
  • The Vikings in History
  • Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
  • England under William the Conqueror
  • Gregory of Tours and his World
    Master's degree courses
    • Historiography and Memory in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    • The Passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Cultural and Religious Aspects

About

Erella Hovers is a professor of prehistoric archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a trained  lithic analyst and works on the earlier periods of human prehistory in eastern Africa and the Levant. Along with Dr.Tegenu Gossa, Prof. Hovers is currently co-directinga project at Melka Wakena (dated 1.6- 0.8 million years) on the Ethiopian highlands and at Hayonim Cave (western Galilee, Israel) focusing on the time period 350-200 thousand years ago. On-going off site activities include publications stemming from previous projects in collaboration with specialists and doctoral and post-doctoral students. 
 

Selected Publications

Hovers, E., Ilani, S., Bar-Yosef, O., Vandermeersch, B., 2003. “An early case of color symbolism: Ochre use by early modern humans in Qafzeh Cave.” Current Anthropology 44, 491-522.

Hovers, E., Belfer-Cohen, A., 2006. "Now you see it, now you don’t" – modern human behavior in the Middle Paleolithic, in: Hovers, E., Kuhn, S.L. (Eds.), Transitions Before The Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Springer New York, pp. 295-304.

Hovers, E., 2009. The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave. Oxford University Press, New York.

 Hovers, E., 2012. “Invention, re-invention, innovations: makings of the Oldowan” in: Elias, S. (Ed.), Origins of Human Creativity and Innovation. Elsevier, pp. 51-68.

 Belfer-Cohen, A., Hovers, E., 2020. “Prehistoric perspectives on ‘Others’ and ‘Strangers.’ Frontiers in Psychology 10, 3063.

Hovers, E., Gossa, T., Asrat, A., et al., 2021. “The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena.” Quaternary Science Reviews 253, 106763.

Selected Awards

Research grants from the Israel Science Foundation, Thyssen foundation, National Geographic Society, Leakey Foundation, internal grants.

Teaching

Introduction to prehistoric archaeology;

The Lower and Middle Paleolithic in the Levant;

 On chimpanzees and humans;

The human settlement of Australia;

Processes of inventions and innovations in the prehistoric record;

Prehistoric perspectives on hunter-gatherers;

The emergence of modern humans; scientific writing

About

Dr. Abigail Jacobson is a historian who focuses on the social and urban history of late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her main research interest is the history of ethnically and nationally mixed spaces and communities, especially during times of war and conflict. She is also researching the history of Oriental Jews in Palestine and Israel.

Selected Publications

From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (Syracuse University Press, 2011).

Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, co-authored with Moshe Naor (Brandeis University Press, 2016).

Bney Haaretz: Yehudim Ve’Aravim Bitkufat Hamndat  co-authored with Mosge Naor (Jerusalem: Magness Press, 2021)

“The Orphan, the Donor and the Photograph: Humanitarianism and Photography in Post-First World War Jerusalem,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2021): 37-56.

“Negotiating Ottomanism in Times of War: Jerusalem during World War I through the Eyes of a Local Muslim Resident,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 40 no. 1 (February 2008): 69-88.

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize for Excellence in Research, Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018)

Yehonatan Shapiro Best Book Award for 2016 (AIS)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Introduction to Ottoman History – Introductory survey
  • World War I in the Middle East: Social and Political History- Undergraduate elective
  • Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics, Society – Upper-level seminar and upper-level undergraduate elective
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Introductory survey
  • The Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Dilemmas of a National Minority – Upper-level seminar and upper-level undergraduate elective
  • Academic and Scientific Writing

About

Hilla Jacobson’s research focuses on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science and the philosophy of practical reasoning. Much of her work stands at the point where philosophical concerns overlap with and feed into empirical research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Jacobson is interested especially in the manner in which we consciously perceive and experience the world (including our own bodies); in the evaluative, valenced (pleasant/unpleasant), motivational (action-guiding) aspects of our perceptual experiences; and in the nature of – as well as the interplay between – mental elements that purport to represent how the world actually is (e.g., beliefs or judgments) and those that concern how it should be from the subject's perspective (e.g., desires and preferences).

Selected Publications

Jacobson, H. (2019). “Not only a messenger: towards an attitudinal-representational theory of pain”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 99 (2), 382-408.

Jacobson, H. forthcoming. The Role of Valence in Perception: An ARTistic Treatment, Philosophical Review

Jacobson H, Putnam H. 2016. “Against Perceptual Conceptualism”. International Journal of Philosophical Studies

About

Sharon Krishek joined the philosophy department in 2013. She is interested in the nature of love and its relation to the correct way of living, and explores this and other related questions in the context of the philosophy of Kierkegaard, the philosophy of love, and works of literature.

Selected Publications

1. Lovers in Essence: A Kierkegaardian Defense of Romantic Love, Oxford University Press, 2022.

2. Kierkegaard on Faith and Love, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

3. “The Long Journey to Oneself: The Existential Import of The Sickness unto Death,” in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death: A Critical Guide, eds. Jeffrey Hanson and Sharon Krishek, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

4.”Kierkegaard’s Notion of a Divine Name and the Feasibility of Universal Love,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2019.

5. “The enactment of love by faith: On Kierkegaard’s distinction between love and its works,” Faith and Philosophy, 2010.

Teaching

- Introduction to existentialism

- Love’s various forms

- A close reading of Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety

- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

- Romantic love

- Philosophy and literature

- Sin, love, and the good life

- The importance of love

- Kierkegaardian love

- Sin, faith, love: A Reading in The Sickness unto Death

About

Alexander Kulik is a philologist and historian whose research concentrates on the cross-cultural transmission of texts and ideas. He studied at the Moscow State University, received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University. Kulik has authored five books and edited seven volumes. Together with Moshe Taube he initiated and headed the international research group at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. He founded and headed the Brill book series Studia Judaeoslavica. Alexander Kulik has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, University College London, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Université de Lausanne, Freie Universität Berlin, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, and National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Presently, he serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and Chair of the Academic Committee of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. He holds the Tamara and Savely Grinberg Chair of Russian Studies at the Hebrew University. Prof. Kulik is a member of the International Committee of Slavists.


Selected Publications

Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004 / Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005)

3 Baruch: Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009)

Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; with S. Minov)

Jews in Old Rus’: A Documentary History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for HURI, forthcoming)

Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press; editor-in-chief, with G. Boccaccini, L. DiTommaso, D. Hamidovic, M. Stone, 2019).

Selected Awards

2007—2011       Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in Intercultural Transmission,” ILS 550,000.

2010—2016       European Research Council (ERC), “Jews and Slavs in the Middle Ages: Interaction and Cross-Fertilization,” EUR 1.044 million

2014—2018      German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), “Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven: Judaeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe” (with Moshe Taube [HU], Rainer Kampling [FU Berlin], Florentina Badalanova Geller [FU Berlin]), EUR 180,000

2016—2021      Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “The Bible in Russian Modernism” (with Roman Timenchik), ILS 600,000

2020—present   Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Jews in Eastern Europe: 10th-14th centuries,” ILS 560,000

Teaching

BA

Russian and Slavic Linguistics

Old Church Slavonic

Introduction to Russian Culture

Introduction to Russian and East European Film and Film Theory

Russian Literature and Film

Jews of Medieval Rus'

Apocalyptic Literature

MA

The Bible in Slavic Traditions

Slavic Pseudepigrapha

The Bible in Russian Modernism

Russian Modernism in the Intercultural Context

Studies in Thematic Criticism

Literature and Art

About

Micha Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works on the intellectual history and literary culture of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and in particular on the reception of the classics in sixteenth-century England. He is General Editor of Sources in Early Poetics (Brill), and co-convenor of Poetics before Modernity, an international project on the history of literary criticism. Before coming to the Hebrew University, Micha spent several years as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Warburg Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

Selected Publications

1. ‘Birdsongs and Sonnets: Acoustic Imitation in Renaissance Lyric’, Huntington Library Quarterly 84.4 (2021), 681-715.  [online here]

2. ‘Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus’, in The Places of Early Modern Criticism, ed. Gavin Alexander, Emma Gilby, and Alexander Marr (Oxford, 2021), 191-205.  [online here]

3. ‘Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 73.1 (2020), 33-77.  [online here]

4. ‘The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell: Accommodating the Classics at 1540s Westminster’, Review of English Studies 69.288 (2018), 32-55.  [online here]

5. ‘Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England’, in Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press, 2016).  [online here]

Selected Awards

Herzog August Bibliothek Research Fellow, Wolfenbüttel (2022)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2022)

Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (2020-2021)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020)

Gordon Duff Prize in book history, University of Cambridge Libraries (2020); Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2012)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2019)

Renaissance Society of America Research Fellow (2018)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Award, Washington D.C. (2017)

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (2016)

Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (2015–2021)

Teaching

Seventeenth-Century Poetry (B.A. seminar, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Poetry (B.A. lecture course, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Shakespeare (B.A. lecture course, Semester B, 2022/3)

Making it New in Renaissance England (M.A. seminar, Semester B, 2022/3)

About

Uzi Leibner is an associate professor in Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology of the Land of Israel and its surroundings. His interests lie in various aspects of landscape archaeology; rural settlements; ancient synagogues; ancient Jewish Art; and the integration of archaeological material and historical sources.

Selected Publications

 Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam: A Roman-period Village and Synagogue in the Lower Galilee, Jerusalem: Qedem ‎Reports 13, the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2018.

 Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern ‎Galilee, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009. ‎

 (with B. Arubas) "The Invisible Synagogues of the Second Temple Period," Cathedra (forthcoming) ‎‎(Hebrew).

 (with D. Adan-Bayewitz, F. Asaro and M. D. Glascock, "A Pottery Production-Site for late Second Temple-period ‎Jerusalem," Eretz Israel 34, forthcoming (Hebrew).

(with Ch. Ben David, "Imported Fine Ware in Palaestina Secunda: Geographic, Economic, and Ethnic Aspects," BASOR 371 (2014), pp. 185-201. ‎

Selected Awards

Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal Prize in Talmudic Research (2017).

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2014).‎ 

Teaching

 Introduction to the Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman ‎and Byzantine Periods

‎Introduction to Byzantine Archaeology

‎Jewish Art and Architecture in the Second Temple Period and in the Days of the ‎Mishnah and Talmud

 Rural Settlements in the Land of Israel in the Roman and Byzantine Periods ‎

 Hellenistic and early Roman Pottery Roman and Byzantine Pottery

 Water Installations in israel and in the Classical World (B.A Seminar)

Galilee and its inhabitants during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods (M.A Seminar)

The Ancient Synagogue - History and Archaeology (MA, with N. Hacham)

Talmudic Archaeology (MA, with D. Rosenthal)

About

Yael Levin is Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, director of The Barbara and Morton Mandel Doctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Vice President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is the author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford UP, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies as well as in a number of edited collections.

Selected Publications

Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism. London: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad’s Novels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

 "Beckett's Path of Least Resistance: Attention, Distraction, Drift.” Estudios Irlandeses. 14:2 (2019) 38-51.

“Univocity, Exhaustion and Failing Better: Reading Beckett with Disability Studies.” Journal of Beckett Studies 27.2 (2018): 157-174.

“The Spatialization of Moral Judgment: Borders in Conrad’s “Amy Foster,” Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes.” Conradiana 49.2-3 (2017): 85-102.

Selected Awards

2021-2023       Awarded funding from the Scholion School of Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the research group “Attention and the Evolution of the Human Subject.”

2020    Awarded a grant to host “Coming to Attention” by the Israel Science Foundation. This is a workshop on New Modernisms that was held in Jerusalem during 6/2021.

2017-2020       Recipient of the Israeli Science Foundation three-year research grant for the project “Pioneering the Slow: Joseph Conrad’s Other Modernisms.”

Teaching

BA

20th Century Novel

Horror: At the Margins of Subjectivity

Villains in English Literature

American Literature and Culture

MA

Writer's Block

20th Century Literary Theory