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

Orna Naftali is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an anthropologist of China, and her research includes  the study of children and youth, schooling and education, gender and the fam... morechildhood and youth, education, gender, and the family in modern and contemporary China.

Selected Publications

Children, Rights, and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

 Children in China (Polity Press, 2016).

"'Being Chinese Means Becoming Cheap Labour': Education, National Belonging, and Social Positionality among Youth in Contemporary China". The China Quarterly (2021), 245: 51–71

"Celebrating Violence? Children, Youth, and War Education in Maoist China (1949-76)". Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2021), 14 (2): 254-273

 "Youth Military Training in China: Learning to 'Love the Army'". Journal of Youth Studies. Published Online first, 2020, pp. 1-19. 10.1080/13676261.2020.1828847

Teaching

B.A.

"Class and Consumption in China"

"The Anthropology of Contemporary Chinese Society"

“Internet and the Media in Contemporary China”

"Gender and Sexuality in Modern China"

“Contemporary China"

“Women and Gender in Modern China”

"Education and Politics in China"

M.A.

"Resistance and Protest in Contemporary China"

"The Chinese Family under Revolution and Reform (1900-49)"

"The Family and the State in the People's Republic of China (1949-)"

Research Methods of Modern Chinese Society and Politics”

“Constructions of Modernity in Contemporary China: An Anthropological Perspective”

“State and Society in the PRC: Selected Topics”

About

Maren Niehoff is Max Cooper Chair of Jewish Philosophy and a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

She has published widely in the area of ancient Jewish philosophy, early Christianity and rabbinic literature and initiated numerous, interdisciplinary research projects.

Her work has been acknowledged by prestigious prizes and grants from international foundations.

Selected Publications

Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography (New Haven 2018).

Homeric Scholarship and Jewish Bible Exegesis in Alexandria (Cambridge 2011).

Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture (Tübingen 2001).

Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity, edited together with Joshua Levinson (Tübingen 2019).

Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (edited, Tübingen 2017). 

Selected Awards

2022 Leopold Lucas Prize

2019 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines

2019 Finalist Jordan Schnitzer Prize

2011 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines

Teaching

2021-2 "Hellenistic Judaism", "Genesis Rabbah in Context", "Who is Against Who?"

2020-1 "Paul", "Hellenistic Judaism in Late Antiquity", "Who is Against Who?"

2019-20 "The Book of Genesis between Jews, Christians and Pagans", "Origen's Newly Discovered Homilies", "Who is Against Who?"

About

Tallay Ornan is an expert in ancient Near Eastern art of the 2nd & 1st millennia,focusing on the southern Levant, Mesopotamia & Syria

Selected Publications

T. Ornan 2005. The Triumph of the Symbol, Pictorial Representation of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical

T. Ornan, 2010. “Humbaba, the Bull of Heaven & the Contribution of Images to the Reconstruction of the Gilgameš Epic.” In H.-U. Steymans ed., Gilgamesch – Bilder eines Helden: Ikonographie und Überlieferung von Motiven im Gilgameš-Epos.OBO 245. Fribourg & Göttingen: 229-260

T. Ornan. 2011.“ ‘Let Ba’al be Enthroned’: The Date, Identification and Function of a Bronze Statue from Hazor.” JNES 70.2:. 253-280

T. Ornan. 2012, “The Long Life of a Dead King: A Bronze Statue from Hazor in its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” BASOR 366: 1-23

T. Ornan. 2019. “Unfinished Business: The Relief on the Hammurabi Louvre Stele Revisited.” JCS 71: 85-109

Teaching

MA:

On Visual Narratives: Pictures and Stories in the Ancient Near East [].

Fighting Gods and Nude Goddesses in the Second Millennium Canaanite Art.

Pictures in Context: Assyrian Wall Reliefs circa 900-600 BCE.

Processes of Symbolization in Ancient Near Eastern Art

Pictorial Representations of Soveriegns in the Ancient Near East

About

Prof. Nissim Otmazgin teaches in  the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Asian Studies. He was previously the head of the Institute for Asian and African Studies and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.  His research interests include cultural diplomacy in Asia, media regionalization in East and Southeast Asia, Japan-Southeast Asian relations, and cultural industry and cultural policy in Japan and South Korea. He is the author/co-author of 2 monographs and 6 edited volumes on media and society in East Asia. He has also published articles in a number of international journals including International Relations of Asia Pacific, Pacific Affairs, Asia-Pacific Review, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Global Policy, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asian Perspective, Contemporary Japan, Cross Currents, Kritika Kultura, and Media, Culture & Society.

Selected Publications

Otmazgin, Nissim. Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia, 2013, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 230 pages

Otmazgin, Nissim and Daliot-Bul, Michal. The Anime Boom in the US: Lessons for Global Creative Industries. 2017, Harvard University Asia Center Press, 212 pages

Otmazgin, Nissim. "An East Asian Public Diplomacy? Lessons from Japan, South Korea, and China" Asian Perspective, 2021, Vol. 45, No. 3

Otmazgin, Nissim. "State Intervention Does Not Support the Development of the Media Sector: Lessons from Korea and Japan," Global Policy, 2020. Vol. 11, June, 40 – 46

Otmazgin, Nissim and Lyan, Irina. “Fan Entrepreneurship: Fandom, Agency, and the Marketing of Hallyu in Israel,” Kritika Kultura, 2018, Issue 32, 288 – 307

Selected Awards

(June 2017) The Taiwan Fellowship Award to conduct field research in Taiwan.

(June 2015) The Korea Foundation Award to conduct research in Korea.

(June 2014) The Japan Foundation Award to conduct research in Japan.

(May 2015) Elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy.

(October 2012) Professor Yoram Ben-Porat Presidential Award for Outstanding Young Researcher for the year 2012-2013.

(November 2011) Selected as a member of Israel Academy of Sciences' Young Scientists Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

(September 2010) Sir Zelman Cowen University Fund, for academic exchange fellowship at The University of Sydney.

(2009-2015) During six consecutive years named in the Outstanding Teachers List, based on students’ annual evaluation survey.

(October 2007) The Sixth Iue Asia-Pacific Research Prize for outstanding dissertation written on society and culture in Asia. Information about this prize available here.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Japanese Politics, Society and Foreign Relations.

Japan-Southeast Asian Relations in the Modern Period.

International Relations of East Asia (at the Dept. of IR, together with Dr. Galia Press-Barnathan)

Honors Seminar in Japanese and Korean Studies

Master's degree courses

Research Methods in Japanese Politics and Society.

Global Cities and Middle Classes in East Asia (together with Dr. Orna Naftali)
 

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

About

Aldina Quintana Rodríguez is a tenured senior lecturer based in the the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and  the Department of General Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a specialist in Spanish Philology, Ibero-Romance Languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching
focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation of Spanish and Judeo-Spanish.

Dr. Quintana Rodríguez holds an M.A. degree in Spanish Philology and Geman Philology from the Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following completion of the PhD, Dr. Quintana was a post-doctoral fellow of the Women’s Group of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before joining the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009.
Dr. Quintana Rodríguez has been corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) since 2015.

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

Yael Reshef is an expert on Modern Hebrew, and in particular, on its emergence processes during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Selected Publications

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020

Linguistic Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019 (ed., with E. Doron, M. Rapaport Hovav, M. Taube)

Hebrew in the Mandate Period. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2015 [in Hebrew]

The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 [in Hebrew]

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim Prize for Excellence in the Study of Hebrew Language and Literature, awarded by The Academy of the Hebrew Language

Teaching

History of the Hebrew Language: From Early Medieval Period until the Revival of Hebrew Speech

Modern Hebrew

Sociolinguistics

Speech and Speech Representation

Selected Topics in Pragmatics

Topics in the History of Modern Hebrew

Structural Features of contemporary Hebrew

Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Gramma

Language and Interaction

Modern Hebrew as a Language of Culture

Modern Hebrew: The First Decades

About

Prof. Avinoam Rosenak is a senior lecturer at the Department of Jewish Thought and in the School of Education, Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the former chair of the Jewish Thought department (2010-2013). His field of research is Modern Jewish Philosophy, Religious Zionism, Philosophy of the Halakhah (Jewish Law), and Philosophy of Jewish Education.

Selected Publications

Avinoam Rosenak, (2007), The Prophetic Halakhah: Rabbi A. I. H. Kook's Philosophy of Halakhah, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Avinoam Rosenak, (2009), Halakhah as an Agent of Change: Critical Studies in Philosophy of Halakhah, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Avinoam Rosenak (2013), Cracks: Rabbi Kook, his Disciples and their Critics, Resling publication, (Hebrew)

Avinoam Rosenak (2009), "Truth Tests, Educational Philosophy and Five Models of the Philosophy of Jewish Law", Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. lxxviii, pp. 149-182

Conflicting Identities: Interfaith Marriage - Philosophical's, Theological's and educational thought's Analisis, Jerusalem, Carmel publication, in print (Hebrew).

Teaching

"Reading in Rabbi Soloveitchik's "Halachic Man

Models in the Philosophy of Halakhah

Streams in the Modern Jewish World: From Spinoza to Reform Judaism Educational Philosophical Challenges and Implications

On the Concept of "Encounter" in Jewis Thought in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Age

Religious Zionism as a Spiritual and Intellectual Challenge: in light of Rabbis Amiel, Soloveitchik, Kook and Hartman,

On Modern Orthodoxy: Reading in the Writings of R. Soloveitchik, R. Kook & R. Hartman and their Students

Philosophy of Halacha and Philosophy of Education

Particularism and Universalism in Jewish Thought and in the Research of Jewish Thought

Philosophical's, Halakhic's and Educational's Dimantion of the Conservative Judaism and Modern Orthodox

Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought

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

About

Ori Shachmon is an Arabic dialectologist engaged in the study of spoken Arabic dialects. She deals mainly - though not exclusively - with Levantine and Yemeni Arabic. These two clusters of dialects - the former of which is spoken in the immediate geographic vicinity of Israel and the latter of which is found deep in the Southern Arabian peninsula - are essentially distinct in terms of linguistic history, internal development, and contact circumstances. Shachmon’s research is primarily based on first-hand materials collected through linguistic fieldwork among native speakers of the dialects she studies.

Selected Publications

Shachmon, Ori (to appear) Temōnit - The Jewish varieties of Yemeni Arabic. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz (the Semitica Viva series).

Shachmon, Ori and Michal Marmorstein (2021) “The introductive baka/bāki in Rural Palestinian Arabic”. Journal of Semitic Studies 66,1: 185-214. 

Shachmon, Ori and Noam Faust (to appear) “Avoidance of final monopositional vowels: Evidence from the k-dialects of Yemen”. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 12,1.

Shachmon, Ori and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (to appear) “The derivatives of Barth`s Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Shachmon, Ori and Tom Fogel (to appear) “Phonetic, Analytic and Substitute Writing - Patterns and pitfalls in Goitein’s Yemenite archive”. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam.

Selected Awards

2010 The Golda Meir Fellowship (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2011 The Ben-Zvi institute prize for the study of Jewish Communities in the East

2019 Award for excellence in teaching

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses: Basic Arabic grammar;  Palestinian Dialects; Linguistic fieldwork (applied workshop); Modern Arabic literature

Master's degree courses: Advanced Topics in Arabic Dialectology; Topics in Arabic Socio-linguistics; Yemen: A window into the Arabic language

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

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

About

Oron Shagrir is the Schulman Chair in Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his  BSc degree in mathematics and computer science and  MA degree in philosophy of science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the nature of computation and the role of computational approaches in cognitive neuroscience.

Selected Publications

• Oron Shagrir. The Nature of Physical Computation. Oxford University Press (forthcoming). 
• Philippos Papayannopoulos, Nir Fresco and Oron Shagrir. “On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy.” The Monist (forthcoming). 
• Lotem Elber-Dorozko and Oron Shagrir. “Integrating Computation into the Mechanistic Hierarchy in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences.” Synthese (forthcoming). First online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02230-9
• Oron Shagrir. “In Defense of the Semantic View of Computation.” Synthese, 197 (2020): 4083–4108.
• Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir. “The Church–Turing Thesis—Logical Limit or Breachable Barrier?” Communications of the ACM, 62 (2019): 66–74.

Teaching

• Philosophy, computation, cognition
• Mental causation
• The philosophical foundation of cognitive science