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