Research Fields

• Modern Central European History
• Compensation and Reparations (Wiedergutmachung)
• Habsburg Monarchy
• Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
• Political Theory
• Law and Minority Rights

About

Dr. Iris Nachum is a historian of Central Europe in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, focusing on Austria and the Bohemian lands, with a special interest in compensation and restitution; liberalism and nationalism; ethnic conflict and expulsion.

In her studies, she focuses on the rise of German nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy, the intriguing interplay between liberalism, nationalism, and Nazism, and the post-1945 expulsion of ethnic German peoples from Central and Eastern Europe to Germany and Austria. Most of her research and publications explore the complex interactions between demands, practices, and discourses of compensation (Wiedergutmachung) in the intra-German, German-Israeli, and German-Jewish contexts.

Since 2020, she serves as a Senior Lecturer at the History Department and as Deputy Director of the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Selected Publications
Iris Nachum. 2022. “Coming To Terms With The Nazi Past'?: The West German Compensation Policy In The Long 1950s”. In Studies In Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 70, Pp. 11-24. Leiden: Brill. Read more.

Iris Nachum. 2021. Nationalbesitzstand und "Wiedergutmachung": Zur historischen Semantik sudetendeutscher Kampfbegriffe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Read more.

Iris Nachum. 2019. “Heinrich Rauchberg (1860–1938): A Reappraisal of a Central European Demographer's Life And Work”. Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 50, Pp. 78-98. doi:10.1017/s0067237818000619. Read online.

Iris Nachum and José Brunner . 2012. "Die Deutschen" als die Anderen – Deutschland in der Imagination seiner Nachbarn. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.

Iris Nachum. 2010. “The History of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp As Reflected In Its Changing and Expanding Functions”. In: A Holocaust Crossroads: Jewish Women and Children in Ravensbrück, Pp. 17-36. London: Vallentine Mitchell.

Iris Nachum and Susan Neiman. 2010. Margherita von Brentano – Das Politische und Das Persönliche. Eine Collage. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 

Selected Awards

Co-Organizer of the Research Group on Paying for the Past: Reparations after the Holocaust in Global Context.

The Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2023-2024.

Member of the Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-2019.

Margherita von Brentano Prize, Free University Berlin, for the comprehensive processing and publication of Margherita von Brentano's literary estate, May 2010.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

History of the Habsburg Empire in the Long 19th Century

History of Political Concepts and Ideas

Modern Central European History: The Bohemian Lands

Modern European Political Theories 

Politics, Society and Culture in the Habsburg Monarchy (1848-1918)

Prague: Between the Hidden and the Revealed

Graduate courses

Law in Times of Crises: The Jurist Jacob Robinson (1889-1977)

The Compensation Project: Reparations for Historical Wrongs in Europe after 1945

Research Fields

• Cognitive Science
• Cognitive Psychology
• Science of Reading
• Computational Linguistics

About

Noam’s research is concerned with learning, reading, and their intersection, mostly from the prism of individual-differences. His most recent work deals primarily with how individuals differ from one another in their literacy skills given their learning capacities and the properties of their native language’s writing system. This work involves the development of computational tools to mathematically quantify the structure of writing systems, and the use of behavioral, eye-tracking, and neurobiological methods to unveil the computations available to learners as they assimilate this structure.

Selected Publications

Siegelman, N., Rueckl, J. G., Steacy, L. M., Frost, S. J., van den Bunt, M., Zevin, J. D., Seidenberg, M. S., Pugh, K. R., Compton, D. L., & Morris, R. D. (2020). Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills. Journal of Memory and Language.

Siegelman, N., Schroder, S., Acarturk, C., Alexeeva, S, Amenta, S., An, H., Bertram, R., Bondarini, R., Brysbaert, M., Chernova, D., Da Fonesca, S. M., Dirix, N., Duyck, W., Fella, A., Frost, R., Gattei, C., Kalaitzi, A., Kwon, N., Marelli, M., … Kuperman, V. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO). Behavior Research Methods.

Siegelman, N., van den Bunt, M., Lo, J. C. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Pugh, K. R. (2021). Theory-driven classification of individuals with and without reading difficulties using Bayesian latent-mixture models. NeuroImage.  

Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., Christiansen, M.H., & Frost, R. (2017). Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Siegelman, N., & Frost, R. (2015). Statistical learning as an individual ability: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence. Journal of Memory and Language.

Selected Awards

2022-present: Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship

2020-2021: Israel Science Foundation (ISF) postdoctoral fellowship

2018-2019: Rothschild Yad-Hanadiv postdoctoral fellowship

2019: Alex Berger award for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation (Hebrew University)

Teaching

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

2022-present: Statistics for Graduate Students: From t-tests to Mixed-Effect Models

2022-present: Field Work: Individual Differences in Learning and High-Level Cognitive Abilities

2022-present: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

2018: A Hands-on Tutorial: Mixed-effect Models in R

2015-2018: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

Research Fields

• Modern French History
• European Colonialism
• French Republicanism
• North African History
• Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews
• Gender and Sexuality

About

Yuval Tal is a historian of modern France and the French colonial Empire in North Africa. His research brings the history of Christians, Muslims, and Jews from across Europe and the Mediterranean into a shared analytical framework. This desegregated method allows him to bridge the divide between national and imperial histories of Europe and bring into view sublimated ethnic premises and biases that haunt European liberal democracies.

Selected Publications

“The ‘Latin’ Melting-Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021), 85-118.

“The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018), 17-36.

Teaching

Gender and Law in France, 1870-2022

Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern France 

After Empire: Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe

The Right to the City in Modern Paris: Race, Sexuality, and Capitalism

Research Fields

• Contemporary Art
• Israeli Art
• History of Photography
• Aesthetics
• Museum Theory
• New Media

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

Research Fields

• Modern Jewish History
• History of Jews in the Islamic world
• Cultural and Intellectual history
• History of books
• History of Children and Childhood
• Holocaust Studies

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

Research Fields

• Classical reception
• Intellectual history
• Sound studies
• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Poetics
• Aristotelianism
• Humanism
• Book history

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)

Research Fields

• Prehistory of the Southern Levant
•  Origin of Agriculture
•  Prehistoric ritual
•  Computational Archaeology
•  Burial practices
•  Epipaleolithic
•  Natufian
•  Neolithic
•  Lithic technologies, 3-D scanning, 3-D analysis
•  Neolithic Quarries

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)

Research Fields

• Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, including biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient translations 
• Early Jewish biblical exegesis 
• Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including late biblical books, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

About

Prof. Michael Segal is the Father Takeji Otsuki Professor of Biblical Studies. His research focuses upon the Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including the latest books of the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea scrolls. He is interested in the literary development of these works, and their significance for how the Bible was received, interpreted and transmitted in antiquity.

Selected Publications

The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2007; Hebrew) and (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 117; Leiden: Brill, 2007l English).
Dreams, Riddles, and Visions: Textual, Contextual, and Intertextual Approaches to the Book of Daniel (BZAW 455; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).
with Shemaryahu Talmon, The Hebrew University Bible:The Twelve Prophets (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, to appear in 2022)
“Calculating the End: Inner-Danielic Chronological Developments,” Vetus Testamentum 68 (2018): 272–296.
“Reconsidering the Relationship(s) between 4Q365, 4Q365a, and the Temple Scroll,” Revue de Qumran 30 (2018): 213–233.

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize (First Place, Researcher) for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Ancient Jewish Exegesis

Introduction to Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period

Book of Judges

Biblical Apocalyptic Literature

Biblical Court Tales (B.A. Seminar)

Literature of the Restoration Period (B.A. Seminar)

Master's degree courses

Aramaic Targumim

The Bible at Qumran: Text, Rewriting and Interpretation

Septuagint of the Book of Daniel

Septuagint of the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah

Septuagint of the Book of Samuel

Research Fields

• Roman art and architecture
• Hellenistic art and architecture
• Funerary architecture
• Second Temple period
• Ancient Jerusalem
• Flavius Josephus
• Herod the Great
• The Hasmonean Dynasty
• Jewish Art

About

Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat is a Classical archaeologist specializing in Hellenistic and Roman art and architecture of the southern Levant, and especially in Hasmonean and Herodian architectural decoration. She has published extensively on the architectural decoration of the Hasmonean and Herodian palaces at Jericho, the mausoleum at Herodium, and the Herodian Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

She has also studied trends and changes in the funerary architecture of Judea in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. In recent years, Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat has run three archaeological excavations – one at the Byzantine-period village of En Gedi, the other at Horvat Midras in the Judean Foothills, where remains of a Roman temple and a Jewish pyramidal funerary monument were uncovered, and the third in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Selected Publications

Peleg-Barkat O., 2012. “The Relative Chronology of Tomb Façades in Early Roman Jerusalem and Power Displays by the Élite,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 25/1, pp. 403−418

Peleg-Barkat O., 2014. "Fit for a King: Architectural Décor in Judaea and Herod as Trendsetter," Bulletin of the American

School of Oriental Research 371, pp. 141−161

Peleg-Barkat O. (PI.), Geva, H. (C.), and Reich R. (C.), 2017. "A Monumental Herodian Ionic Capital from the Upper City of Jerusalem," Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology 8: 74–95

 Peleg-Barkat O., 2017. The Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem, 1968−1978 Directed by Benjamin Mazar, Final Reports, vol. V: Herodian Architectural Decoration and King Herod’s Royal Portico [Qedem series 57], Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Peleg-Barkat, O., 2019, Herod’s Western Palace in Jerusalem: Some New Insights, Electrum 26: 53-72.

Selected Awards

2015−2019: Individual Research Grant from the Israel Science Foundation, "Continuity and Change in Rural Roman Judaea: Horvat Midras as a Case Study," NIS 860,000. #48, #50, #63, #64

2015: Ruth Amiran Fund for Archaeological Research in Eretz-Israel, “Editing a Festschrift in honour of Prof. Joseph Patrich on the Occasion of his Retirement,” US$ 4,000. #14

2018: Ruth Amiran Fund for Archaeological Research in Eretz-Israel, “Student Academic Tour to Georgia,” US$ 10,000.

2019: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, "Conference - The Basilica in Roman Palestine, Its Architectural Layout, Role and Function in the Ancient City, University of Tübingen," EU€ 11,000.

2019: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (together with Prof. Gregg Gardner from University of British Columbia, Vancouver), "The Horvat Midras Excavation Project: Cultural Interaction in Rural Roman Judea," CAD$ 69,023.

2020: The Roger and Susan Hertog Center for the Archaeological Study of Jerusalem and Judah Grant, “The Gan HaMisgav Excavations in the Jewish Quarter,” US$ 30,000.

2021: The Roger and Susan Hertog Center for the Archaeological Study of Jerusalem and Judah Grant, “The Gan HaTkumah Excavations in the Jewish Quarter,” US$ 20,000.

Teaching

Fashion Victims of the Ancient World

Alexander the Great and his Heritage

Jerusalem through the Ages – The Tangible Past

Rome and Jerusalem between Augustus and Titus

Introduction to Greek Archaeology

Introduction to Roman Archaeology

Topics in Classical – Byzantine Archaeology: Herodian Art and Architecture

Topics in Classical – Byzantine Archaeology: The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine

Josephus' Writings and the Archaeological Finds

The Classical Architectural Decoration

King Herod and other Client Kings

Egyptomania: Egypt in Rome, Rome in Egypt

The Hasmoneans from an Archaeological Perspective - Rebels, Priests and Kings

Research Fields

• Classics
• History of Medicine
• History of Science and Ideas
• Digital Humanities

About

Lewis is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Classics and the Principal Investigator of the multidesciplinary project ATLOMY – “Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas” funded by an ERC-Starting Grant. Her research focuses on anatomy, physiology and diagnostics in pre-modern societies. Dr. Lewis is intrigued by how people explored and interpreted nature, in particularly the living body, its structure and its workings. She finds the collaboration with modern medical experts and practitioners particularly stimulating and fruitful.

Selected Publications

Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden: Brill, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337435

“The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. (with Pavel Gregoric and Martin Kuhar) https://doi.org/10.1086/680674

“The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos (ed.), Exploring Greek Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, 2020), 25–54.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470035

 Coughlin, S., Lewis, O., “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 203–236. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/

 “Galen against Archigenes on the Classification of Pulses”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson (eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience and Reasoning in Ancient Medicine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming April 2022).

Selected Awards

2020 Alon Scholarship for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty

2019 Starting Grant of the European Research Committee (Horizon 2020, GA 852550)

2019 Young Historian Prize of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire de Sciences.

2018 Shlomo Pines Prize for outstanding young scholars

Teaching

2021-2022
Winter Semester
- Advanced Greek (Part A)
- Digital Research in the Humanities: from Idea to Output (in English)

Summer Semester
- Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome
- Reading Roman Historians (Advanced Latin Prose)

2020-2021
Winter Semester
- Lysias: Readings in Easy Greek Prose
- Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome

Summer Semester
- Thucydides: Readings in Advanced greek Prose 
- Ancient Digital Science (in English)

At the Department of History:

Summer Semester 2018
Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Antiquity

Research Fields

• Transnationalism,
• diplomacy, agricultural history,
• modern Jewish history,
• Russian Imperial History,
• Soviet History,
• International Relations,
• Migration,
• Applied Humanities,
• Public History

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.)

Research Fields

• Folklore Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Critical Heritage Studies

About

Dr. Dani Schrire is affiliated with two graduate programs. His work is inspired by Folklore theory, studies of everyday culture, actor-network-theory and critical heritage studies, examining reflexively the emergence of Jewish folklore studies in international networks, as well as archives, collections and other ethnorgaphic practices, postcards and walking as a cultural practice. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University (summa cum laude) and studied also at the Humboldt University Berlin. In addition, Dr. Schrire carried out postdoctoral research at Göttingen University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schrire is active in various international networks in folklore studies, European ethnology and Jewish studies and currently he is a member of the board of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore )SIEF).

Selected Publications

2021. “Becoming a Version: The Case of Walter Anderson's Studies of Yiddish Folk-Narratives.” Narrative Culture 8: 129-154. 

2019. “Zionist Folkloristics in the 1940s-1950s, Diasporic Cultures and the Question of Continuity.” Hebrew Studies 60: 197-222.

2016. “Ballads of Strangers: Constructing ‘Ethnographic Moments’ in Jewish Folklore.” In Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography, eds. Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran (Bloomington: Indiana University Press): 322-346.

2010. “Raphael Patai, Jewish Folklore, Comparative Folklorists and American Anthropology.” Journal of Folklore Research 47 (1-2): 7-43.

Teaching

Rumours: Folk-Genre Perspectives and Historical Perspectives

Cultures in Boxes: Ethnography of Collecting and Archives

Everyday Cultures: Routine Adventures

Learning to Walk: Walking in Cultural Context

Approaches to Critical Heritage Studies

The Quest for Jewish Folklore

After Bruno Latour: Studying the Culture of the Moderns

Postcards: Studying the Relics of Modernity

Research Fields

• Yiddish and Jewish Theater.
• Performance Studies.
• Contemporary Art.
• Research-Creation.

About

Diego Rotman is a Senior Lecturer, researcher, multidisciplinary artist and curator. His research focuses on performative practices related to local historiography, Yiddish theater, contemporary art and folklore and research creation projects.

Selected Publications

Diego Rotman. 2021. The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home - Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980), Pp. 321. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Diego Rotman. 2020. “Language Politics, Memory, and Discourse: Yiddish Theatre in Israel (1948-2003).” Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 6, 2.

Diego Rotman. 2019. “Building and Developing HaMesila Park: From Resistance to Collaboration.” In Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones Engaging Students for Transformative Change, edited by Dalya Yafa Markovich, Daphna Golan, and Nadera Shalhoub Kervokian. Palgrave.

 Diego Rotman. 2019. “The Fragile Boundaries of Paradise: The Paradise Inn Resort at the Former Jerusalem Leprosarium.” In Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place, edited by Edwin Seroussi and Ruthie Abeliovich. Jerusalem: Sciendo / I-Core.

Diego Rotman. 2017. “On the architecture of the ephemeral: The Eternal Sukkah of the Jahalin tribe.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Selected Awards

2019,  Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies

2017, Prize of the Israeli Minister of Culture for Visual Artists (together with Lea Mauas)

2018, Nominated for the Keshet Award in Visual Arts.

2014, Prize for an outstanding PhD Thesis, by the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry.

2006, Prize for an outstanding M.A. Thesis by Beit Shalom Aleichem.

Teaching

Art as Research (Lab)

Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

The City as a Performative Arena: Performance, Intervention and Actions in the Public Space 

Dybbuk: Between Theatre and Ethnography

Cabaret Satire and Theater: Jewish Theatre in Europe

From Avant-garde to Political Satire: Dzigan and Shumacher's Theater

History of Theater in the Modern Period: Modernism and Avant-Garde

Research Fields

• social history
• cultural history
• historic photography
• ladino literature
• Mizrahi studies

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)

Research Fields

• History of Modern Europe
• History of Sexuality
• French and German History

About

Moshe Sluhovsky studied medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before moving to Princeton University, where he earned his PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Professors Natalie Z. Davis and Peter Brown. After three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, he moved back to Israel and to the Hebrew University, where he has been teaching ever since. He became a Full Professor in 2013 and holds the Paulette and Paul Kelman Chair for the Study of the History of French Jewry. He has served as the Chair of the Department of History and the Institute of History, and as director of the Lafer Program for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Currently he has shifted his research interest to the history of the entanglement of Jews and homosexuality in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Prof. Sluhovsky  has received grants from the German Israeli Foundation, the Einstein Stiftung, and the Israel Science Foundation to pursue this topic.

Selected Publications

 2017             Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press), 232 pp.

 2007             “Believe not Every Spirit": Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism (The University of Chicago Press), 373 pgs.

2021                         Co-editor (with Andreas Krass), Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (Frankfurt: Transcript), 300 pp.

2019                         (ed. and Introduction) Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin (Leiden and New York: Brill), 548 pp.

2007 – 2011              Editor in Chief, On the Threshold of a New Era, a series of 10 textbooks on early modern European History, The Open University of Israel (in Hebrew)

Selected Awards

2022-2024                                ISF Research Grant (wth Prof. Yuvaul Yonay, Haifa University and Dr. Michal Shapira, TLV), 920,000.00 NIS

2020 - 2023                              Einstein Stiftung grant (465,000.00 Euros)

2017-2020                                German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research Fellowship (GIF) (200,000.00 Euros)

2013-2014                                Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative Initiative of the Graduate Center, City University of New York

2013-2014                                Remarque Center Fellow, New York University

2012-2013                                Davis Center Fellow, Princeton University

2002 – 2003                              National Humanities Center Fellowship, North Carolina

Teaching

Introduction to 19^th Century Europe

Introduction to 20^th Century Europe

History of Modern Sexuality

The French Revolution

French Theory after 1945

Colonial Encounters

History and Theory (M.A.)

Theories of the Subject (M.A.)