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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

About

Dr. Lee Mordechai is a historian of the Eastern Roman Empire - also called the Byzantine Empire. Mordechai approaches his research through social history, environmental history and the digital humanities. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University (graduated in 2017) and went on to postdoctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) and at the Institute of Environmental Studies at Annapolis (Maryland, USA).

Selected Publications

Eisenberg, M. and Mordechai, L., “The Justinianic Plague, Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept”. American Historical Review 125(5): 1632-1667.

Mordechai, L., “Berytus and the Aftermath of the 551 Earthquake”. Late Antiquity – Studies in Source Criticism 17-18: 197-242.

Mordechai, L., Eisenberg, M., Newfield, T.P., Izdebski, A., Kay, J. and Poinar H. “The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51): 25546-25554.

Mordechai, L., Eisenberg, M. “Rejecting Catastrophe: the case of the Justinianic Plague”. Past and Present 244(1): 3-50.

Haldon, J.F., Mordechai, L., Newfield, T., Chase, A., Izdebski, A., Guzowski, P., Labuhn, I., Roberts, N., “History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(13): 3210-3218.

Selected Awards

COVID-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest – from Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University

SESYNC Pursuit, “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Historical Cases of Navigating Socio-Environmental Stress”

Fellow of the Israeli Academy of Sciences Junior Scholar Forum for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Princeton's Initiative for Comparative Antiquity support for FLAME

Peter R. Brown Prize for 2017

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Epidemics and Zombies: the history of the end of the world in film

A Clash of Civilizations? Greeks and Persians in Antiquity

The Hellenistic Kingdoms

Disasters in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean

Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Introduction to Byzantine History

The Justinianic Plague between History and Science
Master's degree courses

New Directions in Premodern Environmental History

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

About

Dr. Ronny Regev’s research focuses on modern U.S. history, with a particular interest in how the political economy and everyday life shape one another.  In 2017, Regev joined the History department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an Assistant Professor. His current research examines African American consumer culture in the first half of the 20th century. Regev teaches courses on African American History, the History of Capitalism, American Consumer Culture, and Labor History.

Selected Publications

Working in Hollywood (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

“Hollywood History is So White,” Reviews in American History 49, no.1 (2021), 70-75.

“We Want No More Economic Islands”: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in Post War U.S. History of Retailing and Consumption 6, no.1 (2020), 45-69.

“Hollywood Works: How Creativity Became Labor in the Studio System,” Enterprise and Society 17, no.3 (September 2016), 591-617.

Selected Awards

Buying Black Power: African Americans in the Era of Mass Consumption and Segregation (1880-1960), Israeli Science Foundation Individual Research Grant (2019-2021)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • History of Capitalism
  • African American History
  • History of the American Workplace
  • American Consumer Culture
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • The New Deal
  • U.S. in the 1970s
  • U.S. Foreign Policy
     
• Master's degree courses
  • ______

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.)

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

About

Senior lecturer in Classics

Selected Publications

The Worlds of Aulus Gellius, eds. L. Holford-Strevens and A. Vardi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

“Diiudicatio Locorum: Gellius and the History of a Mode in Ancient Comparative Criticism”, Classical Quarterly2 46 (1996), 492-514

“An Anthology of Early Latin Epigrams? A Ghost Reconsidered”, Classical Quarterly2 50 (2000), 147-158

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Catuulus

Vergil's Ecl., Vergil's. Georgics, Vergil's Aeneid

Cicero, de Officiis, Cicero, de Oratore, Cic. de Amicitia, Cic. in Cat. I, Cicero, pro Archia, Cicero and Pliny, E

pistles

Roman Historians

Plautus, Menaechmi, Plautus, Catptivi

Terence, Adelphoe

Ovid, Met

Master's degree courses seminars

The Self in Seneca the younger and Pliny the youger

Horace, Odes; Horace satirre

Intellectua life at Rome

Love in Roman Elegy

The concept of Decline in Tacitus' dialogus de oratoribus