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I specialize in the history of the Ottoman Empire and in the comparative study of empires. I am interested in the social, political, and cultural history of capitalism in the Middle East, and the Global South, more broadly. My research examines the financial markets and provincial public debt in nineteenth century Ottoman Damascus, foregrounding the role of sarrafs, tax-farmers, merchant families, and Jewish financiers of the hajj, which most scholarship has relegated to the realm of the “pre-modern”.
My work explores local and inter-imperial conflicts and anxieties about political belonging, nationality and sovereignty, risk and uncertainty, and the boundaries of financial activity - reflected, most notably, in the distinction between interest and usury - in a period of European financial expansion and large-scale development projects at home.
Idit is currently working on a project entitled Money, Sovereignty and Corporate power: British East India Company Coinage in the Early Modern World. The project explores how corporate issued coinage played a role in the establishment of the BEIC’s sovereignty in India from the 17th-19th century. Idit’s dissertation, Non-governmental Monies in Early Modern England: A Social, Political and Material Culture Analysis, examined currencies issued by the private sector that were used for daily economic activity over long periods of time. Her work emphasizes how the government’s relationship with and control of low denominational coinage changed throughout the early modern period, symbolically and practically. Thus, showing how small change that was in ordinary men’s and women’s pockets signified large monetary shifts in the history of England.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2021-2025 Martin Buber Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020-2021- Markets, Ethics and the Law Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University
2017-2020- Azrieli Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Leadership
2016-2019- Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship
2014-2018- George L. Mosse Graduate Fellowship of Excellence in Historical Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prizes
Yaakov Talmon Prize for PhD Students, History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Education
2021- PhD, History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015-6- George L. Mosse Graduate Student Exchange Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2015- MA, History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010- BA, History, Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
“Women’s Work on Small Change: Privately Issued Currency by Women in mid17th Century London” (under review)
Presentations
Panels Co-Organized
2018- “Cultures of Calculation” Panel, Annual North American Conference of British Studies (Providence, RI) Lecture entitled: “The Big Problem of Small Change: Privately-Minted Coinage in Seventeenth-Century England”
Papers Presented
2021- “Corporate Money in the Early Modern Period: East India Company Coinage”, Conference of the Israeli Economic History Association, Annual Meeting of Money, Credit and Banking Forum
2021- Presentation of Dissertation at the History Department Colloquium, Haifa University (invited talk)
2018- “Non-Governmental Monies: Extraordinary or Mundane?”, International Conference Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Extra-Ordinary: Unique and Common Artifacts as Social Actors”
2018- “Small Money during Great Revolutions: Privately Minted Money during the English Civil War”, Conference of the Israeli Economic History Association, Annual Meeting of Money, Credit and Banking forum
2017- “Local Money: On the Thin Line between Legal and Forged Money in Early Modern England”, Israeli Economic History Association conference “What is Money?”
2016- “The Materiality of Money: Small Change in Early Modern England”, Israeli Historical Society Graduate Student Workshop with Prof. Kit French (invited talk)
2016- “Hands on History: Digitization of Jewish Cemeteries as an Educational Tool”Center of Jewish Studies Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison (invited talk)
Political Economy Political Sociology Innovation Policy Development Political Geography
Current Projects
Erez’s dissertation, Politics of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial State and the Making of Israel’s ‘Start-Up Nation’, is a state-led account of Israel’s transformation from traditional manufacturing to a knowledge-based economy. Rather than the invisible hand of market forces, his work underscores the crucial role of industrial policy and the collaboration between private and public actors. His current research project focuses on Israel’s “Digital Health Initiative”, a new government program that seeks to foster economic growth and addresses a host of social-health related challenges that have only become more pressing following the Covid-19 epidemic
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2021-2025 Martin Buber Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2021-2023, Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, University of Toronto (Declined)
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University
2020-2021 The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Declined)
2018-19 GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University
2016-18 Israel Institute Doctoral Fellowship
2013-18 Henry MacCracken Fellowship, New York University
2012 Herzl Fellowship, Bernard Cherrick Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prizes
2021- Halpern Award for Best PhD Dissertation, Association for Israel Studies
2020 - Louis Guttman Best Paper Award, Israeli Sociology Society
2020 - Early Career Workshop Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE))
2012 - Rector’s Prize of Excellence in a Master's Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012 - Dean’s List of Outstanding Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011 - Kurt Grunwald Award
Education
2020 Ph.D. Sociology, New York University
2015 M.Phil. Sociology, New York University
2013 M.A. Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010 B.A. Sociology, Anthropology and International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Forthcoming Erez Maggor & Michael Frenkel. “Start-up Nation? Myths and Reality”. Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel.
Forthcoming Ariel Handel, Marco Allegra and Erez Maggor. “The Israeli Settlements: Past, Present and Future”. Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
2021 “Wage-Led Growth Is Dead! Long Live Wage-Led Growth! Labor’s Role in the (Re)Formation of Israel’s Growth Model” (with Assaf Bondy), Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting (virtual Conference)
2020 “The Politics Innovation: Lessons from Israel.”Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting, Amsterdam (virtual conference).
2019 “The Politics of Innovation Policy: Lessons from Israel.” American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, New York.
2017 “Discipline, Development and Sources of State Capacity.”American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Montreal.
2016 “Sources of State Capacity and the Developmental State”Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting, Berkeley.
2012 “Politics, Planning, Market: The Israeli Settlement Policy in the Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem”, (with Marco Allegra). European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS) Annual Meeting, Munich.
European History French Colonialism Mediterranean Studies Jewish Studies Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Current Projects:
Yuval is currently pursuing two research projects. He is completing a book manuscript, “French Republicanism and the Problem of Empire: Muslims, Catholics, and Jews in French Algeria, 1870-1921.” This study explores the desires of all non-French groups in colonial Algeria - Muslims, Jews, and Catholic immigrants from Italy, Spain, and Malta - to become French while retaining their communal identities. It argues that France’s republican project of national assimilation, despite its explicit universalism, was predicated on the notion that only Catholic Europeans were a priori capable of becoming French. Yuval is also working on a new research project, “The Limits of Solidarity: Ethnicity and Class Politics in the French Mediterranean, 1918-1962.” This project explores interactions between French, Italian, Spanish, Muslim, and Jewish workers in labor unions and during strikes in the Mediterranean cities of Marseille, Tunis, Algiers, and Constantine.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2020-2021 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the
Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2016-2018 The Posen Society of Fellows
2014-2016 The Owen Scholars Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
2012-2013 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Fellowship
Education
2016-2020 Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University
2011-2014 M.A. Magna cum laude, Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007-2010 B.A. Magna cum laude, History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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.
“Working-Class Politics, Social Resentment, and Jewish-Muslim Relations in
Twentieth-Century Colonial Algeria” (in progress)
"Jewish and Sexual Identities in the Works of George Mosse," Hayo Haya 9 (2012), 64-84.
Applied Linguistics Freirian Pedagogies English in Local-Global Contexts Cultural Discourses Language and Identity Politics
Current Projects
My current projects investigate how the increasingly influential Global Citizenship Education framework might be brought into productive conversation with pedagogies for teaching English to speakers of other languages, building on my previous research on the role played by English language teaching in Israel in reproducing exclusionary ideologies.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2018-2019: Postdoc fellowship at The Hebrew University: The Center for the Studies of Multiculturalism and Diversity.
2019-2020: Visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, The Paulo Freire Institute.
Education
B.A. & M.A: Department of English Language & Literature, Haifa University.
PhD (2017): Department of English Language & Literature ,Haifa University Title of Dissertation: EFL Materials: A Means of Reproduction or Change? Supervisor: Professor Ron Kuzar
Publications
Chapters in books.
Awayed-Bishara, M. (2015). Integrating the teaching of English as a foreign language (TEFL) and anti-racist education, In A Lesson for Life: Anti-Racist Education, Tel Aviv, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel publication (pp. I-XXV).
Awayed-Bishara, M. (Invited in preparation). Education in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. In R. Arnove, Torres C.A., & Misiaszek L. (Eds.) Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (5th edition), Lanham, Maryland, Invited by Rowman & Littlefield, to be submitted by November 2020.
Awayed-Bishara, M. (2015). Analyzing the cultural content of materials used for teaching English to high school speakers of Arabic in Israel. Discourse & Society, 26(5), 517–542. https://doi.org/edsjsr.26376399
(2015) 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) on Language and Adaptability, Antwerp, Belgium. Lecture: Analyzing the cultural content of materials used for teaching English to high school speakers of Arabic in Israel.
(2016) Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), University of Catania, Italy. Lecture: EFL Textbooks and Identity Construction among Arabic/Hebrew Speakers.
(2016) Invited lecture by The Department of Communication, University of Athens, Greece. Lecture: English Education Discourse: A means for global communication?
(2017) American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Portland, USA. Lecture: EFL Textbooks and Identity Construction: A Case Study of Arabic/Hebrew Speakers in Israel.
(2017) 15th International Pragmatics Conference on “Pragmatics in the Real World” in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Panel: About subjectivity and otherness in language and discourse. Lecture: EFL Narratives: Creating Agents or Interpellating Subjects?
(2018) Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Auckland, New Zeeland. Panel: Language and Neoliberal Governmentality. Lecture: Commodified Necropolitics with Tommaso Milani.
(2019) Language and Education in Asymmetrical Contexts: Between Teaching, Text, and Pedagogy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Organization & Lecture: EFL cultural discourse: Ideological reproduction or social transformation?
Late Sumerian Bilingual Literature History of Religion Digital Humanities.
Current Projects
Sumerian is the first documented language of humankind. It is attested in Mesopotamia for three millennia (ca. 3500 BCE – 0). However, Sumerian was still used as a “dead” language for roughly two millennia (ca. 2000 – 0). Why? My project will try to answer this question from a linguistic, literary and historical perspective.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2019 Post-Doc fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Project title: “The Development of the First Millennium Sumerian”.
2015 - 2019 Doctoral fellowship in Assyriology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Graduate School Distant Worlds. Ph.D. Title: “Sonnengrüßen: die sumerischen Kiutu-Gebetsbeschwörungen”.
2014 - 2015 Predoctoral fellowship in Assyriology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Graduate School Distant Worlds.
Prizes
2019 Bursary for participation in the Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology at Wolfson College.
2018 Bursary for participation in the “Advanced Seminar in the Humanities on Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East 2018-2019” at Venice International University.
2017 Bursary for participation in the “Master Class: Cuneiform Epigraphy” at Heidelberg University.
Education
2011 - 2013 M.A. in Languages and Civilizations of Ancient and Modern East at Florence University
2008 - 2011 B.A. in Ancient Literature - Oriental Curriculum at Florence University.
Forthcoming: Hannelore Agnethler, Beatrice Baragli: “dumu diĝir-ra-na: The god’s filiation in Mesopotamian incantation literature”, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions.
Forthcoming: Beatrice Baragli, peter Zilberg: “An Old Babylonian fragment featuring the sun-god”, Orientalia.
Forthcoming: Aleksi Sahala, Beatrice Baragli, Giulia Lentini, Poppy Tushingham: “Towards a Word Similarity Gold Standard for Akkadian: Creation and Model Optimization”, PLOS ONE.
2023 – in press: Beatrice Baragli, Jeremiah Peterson: “Utu and Inana: A Sumerian Cultic Song Containing a Myth Featuring the Journey of the Rising Sun, the Appearance of the Morning Star, and the Aromatics Trade”, Oriens Antiquus – Series Nova 5.
2023 – In Press: Beatrice Baragli, Uri Gabbay: “The Ritual for Opening a Canal from Nineveh”, Iraq – The British Institute for the Study of Iraq journal.
2022: Beatrice Baragli, “The Sun of Nippur: Tracing the Origin of Old Babylonian Sumerian Compositions to Utu Based on Literary Features”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 112, 321-346.
2022: Beatrice Baragli, “From the eBL Lab 34. Further Kiutu Fragments and Joins”, KASKAL 19, 185-190.
2022: Beatrice Baragli, Daisuke Shibata: “From the eBL Lab 35. BM 38873: A Parallel Fragment to Kiutu M”, KASKAL 19, 190-193.
2021: Beatrice Baragli, Zsombor J. Földi: “From the eBL Lab 23. A Harsh Punishment for an Evil Spirit: New Fragments of a Sumerian Kiutu from Ashurbanipal’s Library”, KASKAL 18, 233-238.
In preparation: Beatrice Baragli: “The Sumerian Compound Verbs in the First Millennium”, Proceedings of the Workshop “Late Sumerian: Case Studies, Challenges, Perspectives”.
In preparation: Beatrice Baragli, Uri Gabbay: “Preface”, Proceedings of the Workshop ‘Late Sumerian: Case Studies, Challenges, Perspectives’.
In preparation: Beatrice Baragli: “To Each Their Own Language: Explaining Linguistic Diversity in Ritual Texts and Incantations”, Proceedings of the workshop “Who is it (good) for? Ritual performances and ritual texts”.
Articles in NON-PEER Reviewed Journals and reviews
2023: Beatrice Baragli, Armando Bramanti: “Fourth meeting of the Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico (GRISeF-VOA) – Ricerche in corso”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2023/34, 74-76.
2023 – in press: Review of: Marinella Ceravolo, L‘historiola nella Mesopotamia antica, Bulzoni (2022), ASDIWAL – Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions.
Book Chapters
2023: Beatrice Baragli, “Representing Time in the Kiutu Incantation-prayers”, in Sophus Helle, Gina Konstantopoulos (eds.), The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature, Cuneiform Monographs 54 (Leiden/Boston: Brill).
2021: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter: “Preface”, in: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter (eds.), Distant Worlds and Beyond. Special Issue Dedicated to the Graduate School Distant Worlds (2012‒2021), Distant Worlds Journal Special Issues 3 (Heidelberg: Propylaeum), 1-4.
Organized events
17–20/07/2023: with Jonathan Beltz, Céline Debourse, Spencer Elliott, Elizabeth Knott, Evelyne Koubková, Yael Leokumovich, and Selena Wisnom: Who is it (good) for? Ritual texts and ritual performances, Workshop at the 68th RAI, Leiden, Netherlands.
16–17/11/2022: with Prof. Dr Uri Gabbay: Late Sumerian: Case Studies, Challenges, Perspectives. Organisations: Martin Buber Society of Fellows and ERC “Ancient Mesopotamian Priestly Scholasticism in the First Millennium BCE” (AMPS), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2020 – 2023: with Dr Peter Zilberg: Ancient Near East Departmental Colloquium, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Invited lectures
Reading a Sumerian Kiutu-prayer, Seminar, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 8/10/2023.
When Sumerian and Akkadian faced each other: bilingual texts in first millennium Mesopotamia, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 14/04/2023.
Zu zweisprachigen Texten des 1. Jahrtausends und der Rolle des Spätsumerischen, Neue Forschungen zu Westasien im Altertum – Vortragsreihe des Lehrstuhls, Würzburg, Germany, 23/06/2022.
On Bilingual Texts of the 1st Millennium, HUJI Archaeological and Assyriological Departmental Seminar, Jerusalem, Israel, 09/06/2022.
The Sun of Nippur: From Rhetorical Devices to History of Sumerian Literature, ARWA Online Lecture Series – Philology & History Liaison Group. From Text to History: Philological Approaches to the Ancient Near East, online, 20/05/2022.
Late Sumerian as a Sacred Language, Colloquium of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Jerusalem, Israel, 24/01/2022.
Critical Text Editions: From Traditional Philology to Digitization, The 24th Annual Conference of the Israel Society for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, online 25/01/2021.
The Kiutu incantation-prayers: A literary genre inspired by a single composition, Yale University, Connecticut, USA, 09/10/2019.
The Kiutu incantation-prayers: Or a literary genre inspired by a single composition, UC Berkeley California, USA, 25/09/2019.
Ein Kiutu-Gebet: Analyse und Interpretation, Research Forum of the Graduate School Distant Worlds, Munich, Germany, 03–05/12/2015.
Contemporary Studies Utopian and Dystopian Literature Digital Humanities Diaspora Studies Arabic and Hebrew Modern Prose
Current Projects:
My first book project, Reaching for the Far-Fetched, draws attention to the unprecedented proliferation of speculative fiction and art in both Palestinian and Israeli cultures of the past twenty years. My second project, titled Shatature: Mapping Palestinian Cultural Capital, sets out to visually chart Palestinian diasporic literature as a material system that is in constant interaction with other literary systems around the world, using computational tools and quantitative research.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
Benaroya Postdoctoral Fellowship in Israel Studies, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, 2020-22 (awarded and declined)
Association of Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2020-21 (awarded and declined)
Memorial Fund for Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship, 2019-20
Pigott Fellowship, Stanford University, 2017-18
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 2014-20
Prizes
The Lea Goldberg Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013
The Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Foundation Scholarship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013
School of Literatures Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012-13
Education
Stanford University
PhD, Comparative Literature, 2020
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. Magna cum Laude, General and Comparative Literature, 2014
B.A. General and Comparative Literature & Art History, 2011
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
“The Rise of the Speculative Hebrew Novel: Contemporary Prophecies of Change,” under review.
“The Future of Temple Mount: Imagined Possibilities in Contemporary Palestinian and Israeli Art.” Dibur Literary Journal 6 (Fall, 2018): 7-17.
Presentations
“Can the Future Speak? Futurity, Agency, and Voice in Palestinian Literature,” Futurity Beyond the West, Society of Oriental and African Studies, London, July 2019
“Modification and Decentralization: Three Poetic Strategies in Contemporary Palestinian Culture,” The University of Michigan and the Tel Aviv University Annual Workshop, Tel Aviv University, May 2019
“Vanished: The Presence of Absent(ee)s in Palestinian Prose,” American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2019
“The Limits of Probability and the Shortsightedness of Imagination: The Case of Future Jerusalem,” Contemporary Visions of the Future, EHESS, Paris, March 2018
“Conceiving New Horizons in Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian Art,” ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present, UC Berkeley, October 2017
“The Unimaginable Future, Imagined: Palestinian and Israeli literary Prophecies,” The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation, Oxford University, September 2017
“Reconstituting the Self Through Love: The figure of Rita in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish,” Interfaith Love: Love, Sex and Marriage in the Islamicate World from the Middle Ages to the Present, The University of Leiden, June 2016
“The Death Motif as an Interpretive Key to Yoel Hoffmann’s language in The Shunra and the Schmetterling,” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Brown University, Providence, June 2016
“The Prophet in Paris: Shaping the Present through Words, Images and Bullets,” The Prophetic Workshop, Stanford University, May 2016
“The Last Works of Marguerite Duras and Clarice Lispector,” The Graduate Forum on the Novel, Stanford University, November 2015
My current project is a study of Jewish craftspeople in medieval Northern Europe. Scholarship on the economic history of the Jews in medieval Northern Europe focuses almost exclusively on moneylending. This Jewish occupation generated a great mass of textual sources and is, therefore, most frequently explored. An economic and social history of Jewish professional involvement in crafts, however, has yet to be written. Jewish artisans such as goldsmiths, glaziers, or woodcarvers, among numerous other professions, such as messengers, launderers, or water carriers, frequently appear in our sources but are seldom accounted for by scholars. I aim to modify this paradigm of historiography by providing a new and broad discussion of Jewish professional occupation that will restructure our understanding of the medieval Ashkenazi society and economy. Such a study will help to reveal a more versatile Jewish society and its daily life activities in medieval Northern Europe.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2019–2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the European Research Council project “Beyond the Elite – Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 2020 Short-Term Fellowship at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
2017–2018 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the “Forschungszentrum Europa”, University of Trier
2015–2017 Doctoral Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2014–2015 Leo Baeck Doctoral Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Prizes
2022 Gerald Westheimer Early Career Development Price, Leo Baeck Institut, New York
2020 Ephraim Urbach PostDoc Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
2019 Prof. Marie-Luise Niewodniczanska Price of the Freundeskreis University of Trier (Ph.D. thesis)
2015 Dr. Walther Liebehenz Price for extraordinary achievements in the field of Auxiliary Sciences in History, Georg-August University of Göttingen (Masters’ thesis)
Education
2014–2018 Ph.D. in History at the University of Trier (“Jewish seals in the medieval German Empire. Authentication and self-representation of Jewish men and women” [German])
2014 M.A. in History and German Philologies, University of Trier
Publications
Books
Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Reichsgebiet. Beglaubigungspraxis und Selbstrepräsentation von Jüdinnen und Juden, 2 Vols. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020)
“Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas (1441–1519),” Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, ed. Alfred Haverkamp and Jörg R. Müller (Trier, Mainz, 2017) (http://www.medieval- ashkenaz.org/quellen/1348-1390/judensiegel-4.html).
“Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas (1391–1440),” Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, ed. Alfred Haverkamp and Jörg R. Müller (Trier, Mainz, 2016) (http://www.medieval- ashkenaz.org/quellen/1348-1390/judensiegel-3.html).
“Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas (1348–1390),” Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, ed. Alfred Haverkamp and Jörg R. Müller (Trier, Mainz, 2015) (http://www.medieval- ashkenaz.org/quellen/1348-1390/judensiegel-2.html).
“Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas (1273–1347),” Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, ed. Alfred Haverkamp and Jörg R. Müller (Trier, Mainz, 2014) (http://www.medieval- ashkenaz.org/quellen/judensiegel.html).
Articles
in preparation for 2022/23
“Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Juden im mittelalterlichen Reich,“ in Wirtschaft im Mittelalter. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte, ed. Thomas Ertl (via De Gruyter Oldenbourg).
(with Maria Stürzebecher) “Jewish Goldsmiths in Medieval German Lands,“ Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages, ed. Simha Goldin, Andreas Lehnertz, Isaac Lifshitz and Maria Stürzebecher (via De Gruyter).
“The Jews’ Hat,” Images – A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, special issue, ed. Kathrin Kogman-Appel.
(with Birgit Wiedl) “Juden im Gefängnis im mittelalterlichen Reich,“ Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden.
“The Seal of Gad b. Peter Halevi,“ Ars Judaica, special issue about Jewish material culture, ed. Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig.
“Taking Oaths and Sealing Documents: Signs of Civic Belonging Among Jews of Late Medieval German Lands,“ Sonderheft in a not yet defined journal, ed. Elisheva Baumgarten.
(with Eyal Levinson) ”Jewish Orphans in Medieval Ashkenaz,” in a volume about „Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe“, ed. Elisheva Baumgarten.
“Medieval Jewish Signet Rings,” Arts, special issue about “Medieval Finger Rings from Christian, Jewish and Islamic Contexts”, ed. Maria Stürzebecher.
“Jewish Archives in Medieval Ashkenaz,“ in a yet not specified journal.
2022
“Hebräische Rückvermerke an Thüringer Geschäftsurkunden des Mittelalters: Überreste jüdischer Archive und Einblicke in Wirtschaftspraktiken,“ Jüdische Geschichte in Thüringen. Strukturen und Entwicklungen vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Hans-Werner Hahn and Marko Kreutzmann (Erfurt 2022), 57–71 (in print).
(with Birgit Wiedl) “...written in my own Jewish hand. Bilingual Business Documents from the Medieval Holy Roman Empire,” Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. New Socio-Linguistic Perspectives. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 26, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin et al. 2022) (in print).
“The Beginnings of Yiddish in Worms,” Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080–1350: A Sourcebook (Kalamazoo. Medieval Institute Publications), ed. Tzafrir Barzilay, Elisheva Baumgarten and Eyal Levinson (Kalamazoo 2022) (in print).
“Jewish Seals on a Receipt Debt from Zurich,” Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080–1350: A Sourcebook (Kalamazoo. Medieval Institute Publications), ed. Tzafrir Barzilay, Elisheva Baumgarten and Eyal Levinson (Kalamazoo 2022) (in print).
“A Receipt of Debt in Zurich,” Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080–1350: A Sourcebook (Kalamazoo. Medieval Institute Publications), ed. Tzafrir Barzilay, Elisheva Baumgarten and Eyal Levinson (Kalamazoo 2022) (in print).
“The Erfurt Judeneid,” Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080–1350: A Sourcebook (Kalamazoo. Medieval Institute Publications), ed. Tzafrir Barzilay, Elisheva Baumgarten and Eyal Levinson (Kalamazoo 2022) (in print).
“A Contract Between the City and the Jewish Community of Augsburg,” Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080–1350: A Sourcebook (Kalamazoo. Medieval Institute Publications), ed. Tzafrir Barzilay, Elisheva Baumgarten and Eyal Levinson (Kalamazoo 2022) (in print).
2021
“Dismantling a Monopoly: Jews, Christians, and the Production of Shofarot in Fifteenths-Century Germany,” Medieval Encounters 27 (2021): 360–86.
“Margarete, Reynette and Meyde: Three Jewish Women from Koblenz in the 14th Century,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 38 (2021): 388–405.
“Sigilla ad debita. Siegel für Judenschulden aus den erzstiftisch-mainzischen Städten des 14. Jahrhunderts,“ Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel- und Wappenkunde 67 (2021): 171–206.
(with Markus Wenninger) “Zum Heiligenberger Siegeltypar mit einer »Judensau«: Das Siegel eines Christen, nicht das eines Juden,“ Bremisches Jahrbuch 100 (2021): 32–78.
(with Birgit Wiedl) “How to Get Out of Prison. Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehden from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth through Sixteens Centuries),” Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern Work, ed. Albrecht Classen (New York et al. 2021), 361–413.
“The Jewry Oath (Judeneid). Legal Practice In-Between,” In and Out, Between and Beyond. Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe, ed. Elisheva Baumgarten and Ido Noy (Jerusalem 2021), 53–57.
“The Jew’s Hat (Judenhut). Beyond Labeling Jews,” In and Out, Between and Beyond. Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe, ed. Elisheva Baumgarten and Ido Noy (Jerusalem 2021), 77–82.
2020
“Jewish Seals and Sealing Practices in the Holy Roman Empire – Authentication and Self-Representation,” Medieval Ashkenaz. Papers in Honors of Alfred Haverkamp Presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, ed. Christoph Cluse and Jörg R. Müller (Wiesbaden 2020), 226–40.
“Zu einem bisher unveröffentlichten altjiddischen Privatbrief aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts,“ Jiddistik Mitteilungen 62 (2020): 1–20.
“Christen im öffentlichen und privaten Raum der mittelalterlichen Judenviertel,“ Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 14 (2020): 29–44.
“The Erfurt Judeneid between Pragmatism and Ritual. Aspects of Christian and Jewish Oath Taking in the Medieval German Kingdom,” Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts. Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte, 6, ed. Claudia Bergmann and Maria Stürzebecher (Jena et al. 2020), 12–31.
“Ein Privatbrief aus Mühlhausen in Thüringen. Zum vermutlich frühesten Brief in jiddischer Sprache,“ Heimat Thüringen 2 (2020): 13–14.
“The Seal Matrix of the Trier Jew Muskinus,“ vorZeiten: Times gone by, ed. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Landesarchäologie (Regensburg 2020), 320–21.
2019
“The Trier Archbishop’s negociator Sealing: Two Seals owned by Muskinus the Jew (Moshe b. Yeḥiel, ob. 1336 ce),” A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages, ed. Laura Whatley (Leiden 2019), 243–63.
“Ein altjiddischer Brief aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Zu einem Neufund aus dem Stadtarchiv Mühlhausen,“ Mühlhäuser Beiträge 42 (2019): 101–12.
“Der Friedhof,“ Juden in Klüsserath (1663–1938), ed. Hermann Erschens (Trier 2019), 77–95.
2018
“Les sceaux juifs et les sceaux royaux destinés à confirmer les actes des juifs au royaume français dans les temps médiévales. Une introduction,“ Le Talmud et l’Astrolabe, Judaïsme médiéval en Europe du Nord, ed. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Nicolas Hatot (Rouen 2018), 190–95
2017
“Hafturfehden von Juden in der Stadt Regensburg (14. bis 16. Jahrhundert). Städtische Autonomiebestrebungen zwischen Wandel und Kontinuität,“ Die Stadt des Mittelalters an der Schwelle zur Frühen Neuzeit. Beiträge des interdisziplinären (Post-)Doc-Workshop des Trierer Zentrums für Mediävistik im November 2017, ed. Inge Hülpes and Falko Klaes (online blog vol. publication 2018), 134–72, online via https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/15761.
“Forschungsbericht zu den Judensiegeln,“ Zu Gast bei Juden. Leben in der mittelalterlichen Stadt, ed. Dorothea Weltecke (Constance 2017), 124–26.
“Vier Judensiegel aus Zürich und Schaffhausen,“ Zu Gast bei Juden. Leben in der mittelalterlichen Stadt, ed. Dorothea Weltecke (Constance 2017), 172–74.
“Hebräische Dorsalvermerke,“ Zu Gast bei Juden. Leben in der mittelalterlichen Stadt, ed. Dorothea Weltecke (Constance 2017), 179–83.
“Katavti al ha-Tsetel. Aschkenasische Wörter in Quellen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts,“ Jiddistik Mitteilungen 51 (2014): 1–15.
“Quelle im Fokus: Zweites Typar des Trierer Juden Muskinus (Mosche ben Jechiel),“ online via www.medieval-ashkenaz.org.
Presentations (selection 2019–2020)
“Die Herstellung von Schofarhörnern im mittelalterlichen Erfurt. Ein Skandal und seine Folgen,” in Begegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge, Erfurt, 12 March 2020.
“Mittelalterliche jiddische Briefe aus Mühlhausen und anderen Orten,” in Synagogue in Mühlhausen, 11 March 2020.
“Shofar Production in Medieval Erfurt: Starting a Business, Making a Scandal,” auf der internationalen Konferenz Money Matters: Jews, Christians, and the Medieval Market Place, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 17–19 December 2019.
“The Erfurt Judeneid between Pragmatism and Ritual,” at the international Conference Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts in Erfurt, 6–8 November 2019.
“Shofarot Making and a Scandal in Erfurt in the 15th Century,” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds 1–4 July 2019.
“Jüdische Handwerksleute im mittelalterlichen Erfurt und der Fall eines Schofarskandals,” at the Conference Das mittelalterliche Erfurt – Metropole zwischen Ost und West. Teil II: Stadtentwicklung, städtisches Leben, Geistesgeschichte,” in Erfurt, 6–8 June 2019.
“Hafturfehden: Charters Issued by Jews after Their Release from Imprisonment in the Medieval German Kingdom,” at the Conference Law, Criminality and Law Enforcement (חוק, פשיעה ואכיפה) in Beer Sheva, 5 March 2019.
"Displaying Restraint and Spinning Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967-2015", under review
"Rights Choices", Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6(3), 2014, pp. 389-398.
“Rescues for Humanity: Rescuers, Mass Atrocities and Transitional Justice”, Human Rights Quarterly, 34(1), 2012, pp.1-38.
“Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland”, British Journal of Criminology, 52(1), 2012, pp.32-54.
“Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis”, Journal of Human Rights Practice 4(1), 2012, pp.1-29 [co-authored with Kieran McEvoy].
“Closing the Gap: Armed Groups and Symbolic Reparations”, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 93, No. 883, 2011. pp 783 – 808.
“Climate Change and Human Rights Practice”, Journal of Human Rights Practice 1(2), 2009, pp. 294-307.
“The Long View: Human Rights and Humanitarian Activism, Past and Present”, Journal of Human Rights, 7(3), 2008, pp. 299-309.
“A Model for Dealing with the Past in the Israeli-Palestinian Context”, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 1(2), 2007, pp. 249-267.
“A to Z of Abuses: ‘State of the Art’ in Global Human Rights Monitoring”, Development and Change, 38(6), 2007, pp. 1255-1265.
“Becoming a War Criminal: Insights from The Hague” [peer-reviewed review essay], Social and Legal Studies, 16(2), 2007, pp. 301-310.
“Triangle of Betrayal: Collaborators and Transitional Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Journal of Human Rights, 6(1), 2007, pp. 37-58 [co-authored with Hillel Cohen].
“Advocacy with Footnotes: The Human Rights Report as a Literary Genre”, Human Rights Quarterly, 28(3), 2006, pp. 783-795.
“Understanding Perpetrators of Genocides and Mass Atrocities” [peer-reviewed review essay], British Journal of Sociology 57(4), 2006, pp. 699-707.
“Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism: The Israeli-Palestinian Case”, Terrorism and Political Violence 17(1), 2005, pp. 229-243 [co-authored with Hillel Cohen].
“The Wall, the Law and the Court: Reflections on the Beit Sourik Case in the Israeli Supreme Court”, Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 10, 2004, pp. 471-488.
Selected book chapters
"Forward", in Bruna Seu, Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
“Dealing with the Past when the Conflict is Still Present: Civil Society Truth-Seeking Initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, in Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf (eds.), Localizing Transitional Justice, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, pp.228-252 [co-authored with Hillel Cohen].
“Can You Describe This? Human Rights Reports and What They Tell Us about the Human Rights Movement”, in Richard Wilson and Richard Brown (eds.), Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) pp. 245-267.
“Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism”, in Magnus Ranstorp and Paul Wilkinson (eds.), Terrorism and Human Rights, New York & London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 213-227 [co-authored with Hillel Cohen].
“Transitional Justice and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, in Christine Chinkin, David Downes, Conor Gearty and Paul Rock (eds.), Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen, Cullompton: Willan, 2007, pp. 329-342.
International migration and refugees Border crossing and territorial passages Space and spatiality in world politics International relations theory Sociological theory Law and society
Curriculum Vitae:
2013-2016 Post-doctoral fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011, 2012 Rothschild (Yad Hanadiv) post-doctoral fellow, department of sociology and International Institute, UCLA Nazarian post-doctoral fellow, UCLA
2011 Ph.D, Sociology and Anthropology & International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation title: "Betrayal, Morality and Transnationalism: Identity Construction Processes among the Members of the South Lebanese Army in Israel" Rector (Einstein) Excellence Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Faculty of Social Science, Hebrew University
2006 M.A, International Relations & Sociology and Anthropology (personal joint program), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude). MA Thesis title: "Political Exile, Estrangement and Identity: The Case of Latin American Political Exiles in Israel" Rector Excellence Scholarship for MA students, Faculty of Social Science, Hebrew University
2006 LL.B, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003 B.A, Sociology and Anthropology & International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude)
Publications:
Gazit, O., 2014. "From a Militia to a Diasporic Community: The Changing Identity of the South Lebanese Army" in Miodownik, D. and Barak, O. (eds.), Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
Yair, G. and Gazit, O. (eds.), 2010. Collective Identities, States and Globalization – A Tribute to SN Eisenstadt, Jerusalem: Magnes Press
Gazit, O., 2010. "Political Exile and Identity Construction: The Case of Political Exiles from Latin America to Israel" in Yair, G. and Gazit, O. (eds.), Collective Identities, States and Globalization – A Tribute to SN Eisenstadt, Jerusalem: Magnes Press.
Yair, G. and Gazit, O., 2010. "Collective Identities, States and Globalization – Exploring the Legacy of SN Eisenstadt" in Yair, G. and Gazit, O. (eds.), Collective Identities, States and Globalization – A Tribute to SN Eisenstadt, Jerusalem: Magnes Press
Löwenheim, O. and Gazit, O., 2009. "Power and Examination: A Critique of Citizenship Tests", Security Dialogue 40(2): 145-167
Yair, G. and Gazit, O., 2006. "Learning in Chaos: The Battle over Children's Engagement with Learning in High Poverty Immigrant Families", Research in Sociology of Education 15: 239-264.
Gazit, O., 2013. Nonstate Actors, Identity and Change: The South Lebanese Army between Lebanon and Israel, The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations Working Paper Series, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gazit, O., 2006. 'No Place to Call Home' – Political Exile, Estrangement and Identity: Processes of Identity Construction among Political Exiles from Latin America to Israel, 1970-2004 (Hebrew), Jerusalem: The Shain Center for Research in Social Sciences, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University.
Gazit, O., 2006. Poverty and Education in Israel, 1999-2005 (Hebrew), Jerusalem: NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, School of Education, The Hebrew University.
Social and Theological Aspects of Christianity in Late Antiquity Formation of the Patristic Canon, Textual Commentary and Scholarship in Late Antiquity Jewish-Christian Relations under Islam and in Medieval Europe Historiography of the Jesus Movement
Curriculum Vitae:
Education
2013: Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University
2010-2011: M.A., M.Phil., Religious Studies, Yale University
2005: B.A., magna cum laude, Classics and Linguistics, Hebrew University
1995-2000: Talmudic Studies, Yeshivat Har Etzion
Languages
Arabic
Aramaic
Coptic
English
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
Syriac
Yiddish
Publications:
Forthcoming Publications
Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, forthcoming 2016). ISBN: 9780520289994; e-book ISBN: 9780520964341.
“Fish eats Lion eats Man: Saadia Gaon, Syriac Christianity and the Resurrection of the Dead,” Jewish Quarterly Review 106 (forthcoming, 2016). Recipient of the Prof. Shlomo Pines Award for Outstanding Scholarship (Hebrew University).
“‘I Trapped you with Guile:’ Rationalizing Theology in Late Antiquity,” in Yohannan Friedmann and Christoph Markschies, eds., Rationalization and Religions (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming, 2016).
“‘From Syria all the way to Rome:’ Ignatius of Antioch’s Pauline Journey to Christianity,” in Maren R. Niehoff, ed. (with Reinhard Feldmeier), Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming, 2016).
“Severus of Antioch’s 83rd Cathedral Homily,” in Youval Rotman and Bar Blinitzky, eds., Anthology of Syriac Literature (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, forthcoming, 2016) (In Hebrew).
“Severing Severus: On the Survival of Severus of Antioch’s Writings in Greek,” In review for Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies.
Publications
“The Language of Paradise: Hebrew or Syriac? Linguistic Speculations and Linguistic Realities in Late Antiquity,” in Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 120-137.
“Scholasticism, Exegesis and the Historicization of Mosaic Authorship in Moses bar Kepha’s On Paradise,” Harvard Theological Review 104:3 (2011), 325-348.
“Disorder in the Bible: Rabbinic Responses and Responsibilities,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 19:2 (2012), 104-128.
“Noblest Obelus: Rabbinic Appropriations of Late Ancient Literary Criticism,” in Maren R. Niehoff, ed., Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters: Between Literary and Religious Concerns (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 245-267.
“‘Packed with Patristic Testimonies:’ Severus of Antioch and the Reinvention of the Church Fathers,” in Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone, eds., Personal and Institutional Religion: Thought and Praxis in Eastern Christianity (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), 227-250.
“In What Language Did Rashi Teach Torah? Hints from his Commentary on the Talmud,” in Avinoam Cohen, ed., Rashi and his Disciples (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2013), 139-149 (In Hebrew).
“The Rise and Function of the Holy Text: Severus of Antioch, the Babylonian Talmud, and Beyond,” in Carol Harrison et al., eds., Patristic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of an International Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 521-545.
Philo of Alexandria: De Plantatione: Translated from Greek into Hebrew with an Introduction and Annotations (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and the Bialik Institute, 2015).
Shifting Moral Orders: Mutual Commitments between Individuals and Society and the "New Wars" Durkheim and the Concerns of Social Theory Van Gennep and the Study of Transitions Individuals, Societies and their Military: Soldiers' Suicide; Captivity and Homecoming Cultural Dynamics between Israel and the United States
Current Projects:
1. Military Suicide and the Truths of 'the Social'
1.1 The Post-Contractual and the Rhetoric of Hugging
1.2 Sociology and Suicide: The Finale?
2. An Age of Abduction and the Effects of "the New Wars"
2.1 One of a Kind: Reintegration of Former Captives in the United States and Israel
2.2 From Captivity to Abduction: The Media's Impatience and the New Wars
2.3 Reclaiming van Gennep's "The Rites of Passage", with Dr. Francesca Fiaschetti (International Workshop, 15-16 May 2016, Jerusalem)
Curriculum Vitae:
Education and Fellowships
Since 2013, Research Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
June 2016, The New School, ICSI Summer Seminar, Why Marx Today? led by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
2015, Fall Semester, Visiting Scholar, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by Prof. Carolyn Marvin.
2013, PhD dissertation: "The Domestication of Suicide through Solidarity and Responsibility: Suicide of Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces as Portrayed in Psychology, Law and Modern Hebrew Literature". Supervised by Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder and Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari, at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in the various field of Israel Studies.
2006, MA in Cultural Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2002, BA in Psychology and Communication and Journalism, the Hebrew University.
Discussions Groups:
Co-led with Dr. Adam Klin-Oron, "Theoretical Tremors: The Split of the Disciplines", The Advance Studies Unit, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
"Living Together: Exploring Modes of Political Membership", Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. Academic Director: Dr. Raef Zreik.
2014-2016 Presentations in Conferences and Workshops:
May 2016, Time Fighters: Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" and the Morality of Current Warfare.
July 2015, "Casualty Aversion and Self-Sacrifice: Reintegration of Former Captives in the United States and Israel", first workshop of a tri-national project on contemporary reconfigurations of civil-military relations in Japan, Denmark and Israel.
June 2015, "Studying Transitions: Coming Back from Captivity, Coming Back to Arnold van Gennep", the Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association.
February 2015, "Without Captivity, Without Return: the Weak Society and 'the Hannibal Directive' (permission to shoot toward captive soldiers and their abductors in order to prevent their imprisonment)", the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society.
January 2015, "'Hugging the Soldiers', 'Embracing the People of the South': Positing the Possibility of Post-Contractual Social Relations", in: "Love, Respect and the Political: An Interdisciplinary Workshop", The Minerva Center for the Humanities, Tel Aviv University and The Faculty of Law, University of Haifa.
June 2014, "Gendering Military Suicide: Between a Loved Country and an Unloved Self", Leadership & Critical Decisions, Association for Israel Studies (AIS), Ben-Gurion University.
May 2014, "Modern Hebrew Literature and the Ethos of Self-Sacrifice: A Sociological Perspective", Hebrew Literature Thought: Consciousness and History, Ben-Gurion University.
March 2014, "Solidarity and Responsibility in Cultural Attitudes towards Suicide", The Military and the People, the Hebrew University.
Publications:
(Forthcoming), Suicide and Our Shared Fate, Tel Aviv University Press (in Hebrew)
(Under review), Intellectual, Moral and Practical Imperatives: Assessing Two Moments in the Sociology of Suicide
(Under review), Handling Transitions: the Current Status of Captivity and its Trials
(Under review), Psycholawgy and its Moral Effects, with Eyal Ben Ari
"The Age of Abduction: Israel's Turn from the Terminology of Captivity and its Socio-Moral Implications, Haaretz Weekend Magazine, September 4th 2015, pp. 56-58 (in Hebrew).
(February 2016) "Book Review of 'Captives' edited by M. Mack", Israeli Sociology: a Journal for the Study of Society in Israel, Volume 17 (1).
(Forthcoming) "'An Apolitical yet Heartbreaking Event': Negotiating Female Soldiers' Suicides", in: Sasson-Levy, O. and Lomsky-Feder E. (eds.), Gender and Military, Jerusalem: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (in Hebrew).
2008 (Author) "Face of Angst", HeartQuake, Jerusalem: the Museum on the Seam, pp. 92-95 (in Hebrew), pp. 314-319 (in English).
2008 (Editor) HeartQuake, Jerusalem: the Museum on the Seam (English and Hebrew).
Early modern European history Polish history Economic history Material culture
Buber Fellow: 2011 to 2013
A research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Current Projects:
currently working on a project on Jewish dress and outward appearance and its perceptions by Christians and Jews in early modern German speaking lands and Poland.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) of the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), 2006-2007
Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008-2009
Education
October 2018 to current: lecturer/researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Bielefeld University
April 2013 - September 2018: research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
September 2010 - March 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Jerusalem
2004-2010 PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2003-2004 Warsaw University
2000-2003 Freie Universität Berlin (MA)
March 1999-July 2000 Hebrew University Jerusalem
1996-1999 Leipzig University
Publications
Books
The Jewish Economic Elite. Making Modern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.
Chapters in books
"Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish Merchants in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Central and East Central Europe," in: Stefania Gialdroni et al. (eds.), Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law. Trading Routes and the Development of Commercial Law. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 232-259.
"Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers. Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820)," in: Glenn Dynner, François Guesnet (eds.), Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 42-69.
"Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe," in: Rebecca Kobrin, Adam Teller (eds.), Purchasing Power. The Economics of Jewish History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 71-90.
"Narrative jüdischer Wirtschaftsgeschichte in Osteuropa," in: François Guesnet (ed.), Zwischen Graetz und Dubnow. Jüdische Historiographie in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Leipzig: Leipziger Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2009, 177-201.
Special journal issues
The Jewish Body. Central Europe, 20 (2020, forthcoming).
with Denise Klein and Thomas Weller. Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe. European History Yearbook 20 (2019).
Peer-reviewed articles
"From Noble Dress to Jewish Attire. Jewish Appearances in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire." European History Yearbook 20 (2019), 90-112.
Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkeanzic Merchants across Europe." European History Yearbook 16 (2015), 15-32.
"Between Amsterdam and Warsaw. Commercial Networks of the Ashkeanzic Mercantile Elite in Central Europe." Jewish History 27,1 (2013), 41-71.
Presentations
“Lavish Dress and Luxurious Lives: Court Jews on the Margins of Jewish Society?”, Konferenz: 50th Annual AJS Conference, Boston, December 17, 2018.
“From Noble Dress to Jewish Attire: Jewish Appearances in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the German Speaking Lands”, Conference: Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe, IEG Mainz, October 26-28, 2017.
“Jewish Practices at Fairs, Courts, and Notaries. Was there a Jewish ‘Space’ in Christian Places?« Conference: ‘Space’ as a Category in the Research of the History of Jews in Poland, DHI/ Museum Polin, Warsaw, September 11-12, 2017.
“What Clothes Make a Jews? Perception and Self-Perception through the Lens of Jewish Sumptuary Laws”, World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 7, 2017.
“Looking Jewish? Dress as a Marker of Difference”, Workshop: Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern World. New Perspectives in Research, Exhibitions and Digitalization, Simon-Dubnow-Institute Leipzig, June 19-20, 2017.
“Covering the Female Jewish Body. Dress and Dress Regulations in Early Modern Ashkenas”, Workshop: Identifying, Narrating, Regulating, Covering, Healing the Jewish Body: (Eastern) Ashkenas in the Early Modern Period, UCL London, April 25, 2017.
“From mamran to wisselbrief: Ashkenazi Merchants in Central European Commerce”, 4th Conference: Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants: Migrating Law. The Making of Commercial Law, Frankfurt a.M., September 19-21, 2016.
“Commercial Cosmopolitans? The Eighteenth-Century Jewish Mercantile Elite between Warsaw and Amsterdam”, Conference: Jews, Commerce, and Culture, University of Antwerp, June 20-22, 2010.
“Polish Jews and Their Transnational Commercial Networks”, Conference: Between Coexistence and Divorce. 25 Years of Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish-Jewish Relations, Hebrew University Jerusalem, March 17-19, 2009.
Chinese History Inner Asian History History of the Mongol Empire World History Mongolian Studies Ethnicity and Identity Cross-cultural exchanges between Inner and East Asia Yuan dynasty Non-Han dynasties Globalization in Asia
Buber Fellow: 2014 - 2018
University of Vienna
Curriculum Vitae:
October 2014 - present: Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2015: PhD in Sinology, LMU University, Munich.
2008: MA in Sinology, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
2005: BA in Sinology, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
Fellowships and Awards
October 2014- till present: Post-doctoral Fellow, Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013- 2014: Visiting Research Fellow in the framework of the ERC Project “Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia”, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
June-September 2013: PhD scholarship, Graduate Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
June 2011: AAS-CIAC Small Grant Award for the co-organization of the Workshop “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China”, Ghent, 15th -17th June.
Francesca Fiaschetti, Limits of Belonging: The Concept of Foreign Land in Yuan China, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [in preparation].
Paul D. Buell, Francesca Fiaschetti, Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire, Second Edition (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras), Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2018.
Edited Volumes
Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.) Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China (Asiatische Forschungen 157), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014.
Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, Angela Schottenhammer (eds.) Ethnicity and sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han empires in China, Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, vol. 5, Special Issue, (April 2012), Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag.
Articles and Book Chapters
Francesca Fiaschetti, “Translating Heaven: Divination and Political Authority under the Yuan Dynasty”, in: Patrick Manning, Abigail Owen (eds.), Found in Translation: World History of Science 1000-1800 CE, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press [in press].
Francesca Fiaschetti, “Mongol Imperialism in the Southeast – Uriyangqadai (1201-1272) and Aju (1127-1287)”, in: Michal Biran (ed.) In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia, special issue of Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, vol. 71.4 (2017), 1119-1135.
Francesca Fiaschetti, “The Six Duties: Yuan Diplomatic Interactions with Southeast Asia” in: Archivium Eurasiae Medii Aevii vol. 23 (2017), 81-101.
Francesca Fiaschetti, Paul D. Buell, “Est vs Ovest in termini mongoli: I Qan, le loro corti e il mondo esterno„ , in: Davor Antonucci (ed.), Ad Tartaros. La Mongolia tra Cina ed Occidente, Sulla Via del Catai, vol. 13 (2016), p. 41-63.
Francesca Fiaschetti, “Tradition, Innovation and the Construction of Qubilai’s diplomacy” in: Ming Qing yanjiu, vol. XVIII (2014), 65-96.
Francesca Fiaschetti, “The Borders of Rebellion: The Yuan Dynasty and the Rhetoric of Empire” in: Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.), Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China, (Asiatische Forschungen 157), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014, p. 127-146.
Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, “Introduction”, in: Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider (eds.), Political Strategies of Identity Building in non-Han empires in China (Asiatische Forschungen 157), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014, p. 1-8.
Francesca Fiaschetti, “Fortuna e Ideologia Imperiale nei Documenti di Epoca Yuan”, in: Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, Atti del XIV Convegno, Napoli: Il Torcoliere, 2014, p. 63-76.
Francesca Fiaschetti, "Fremde oder Barbaren? Zu den Auslandsbeziehungen in der Yuanzeit", in: Lena Henningsen, Martin Hofmann (eds.): Tradition? Variation? Plagiat? – Motive und ihre Adaption in China (XXI DVCS Jahrestagung), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012, p. 99-111.
Francesca Fiaschetti, Julia Schneider, “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China. Workshop Report”, in: Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, vol. 4 (Oct. 2011), p. 243-247.
Reviews
Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact, by William Honeychurch. in: Asian Highlands Perspectives vol. 39, p. 417-424.
China’s Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery Frontier over Two Millennia, by James Anderson and John Whitmore (eds.) in: Asian Highlands Perspectives vol. 39, p. 403-425.
China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368. by Bruce A. Elleman and Lo Jung-Pang in: Journal of Asian History, 47.2 (2013), p. 254-256.
L’incontro fra l’Italia e la Cina: il contributo italiano alla sinologia, Atti del V Simposio Internazionale di Sinologia dell’Università Cattolica Fu Jen by Antonella Tulli, Zbigniev Wesolowski (eds.) in: Journal of Asian History, 47.2 (2013), p. 266- 268.
I Mongoli. Espansione, imperi, eredità. by Michele Bernardini and Donatella Guida, in: Journal of Asian History, vol. 47.1 (2013), p. 121-124.
A oriente. Città, uomini, dei sulle vie della seta. by Francesco D’Arelli and Pierfrancesco Callieri (eds.), in: Journal of Asian History, vol. 47.1 ( 2013), p.119-121.
History of the Horn of Africa Ethiopian history and culture European Expansion Religious contact and cross-cultural exchanges in the Middle Ages Late medieval and Renaissance art in Europe Medieval trade routes Women in history Material culture studies
Current Projects:
Royal Women as Political and Cultural Agents in the Horn of Africa, 1300-1650
Diplomatic, cultural and trade contact as well as artistic transmission between Solomonic Ethiopia and Latin Christianity in the 15th and 16th century
JewsEast - Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (a European Research Council project at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Curriculum Vitae:
2014 Dr. phil. / PhD, summa cum laude, University of Constance, Germany, and Mekelle University, Ethiopia (bi-national degree)
2010 M.A. in History with distinction, University of Constance, Germany and University of York, UK
2007 B.A. in Literature, Art and Media Studies with distinction, University of Constance, Germany
Academic and Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University Jerusalem (2014 – present)
Visiting researcher at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University; specialist for object and artwork description for the European Research Council research project "ETHIO-SPARE: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation, Research" (Dr. Denis Nosnitsin) (intermittently from 2012-2014)
Visiting researcher at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Mek'elle University, Ethiopia (2011-12)
Visiting researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (2011)
Fieldwork research team leader during a four-month fieldwork research trip through Tigrai and Amhara regions of Ethiopia (2012)
Scholarships & Research Funding
2014-15: Martin Buber Fellowship, Hebrew University and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2013-14: EXC16 (“Cultural Foundations of Integration” Centre of Excellence at the University of Constance) completion scholarship for the PhD project
2012: EXC16 (“Cultural Foundations of Integration” Centre of Excellence at the University of Constance) fieldwork research funding grant
2011-12: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) research grant for research in Ethiopia
2011: EXC16 (“Cultural Foundations of Integration” Centre of Excellence at the University of Constance) PhD start-up funding for preliminary research trips to Addis Ababa and Mek'elle, Ethiopia
2010-13: Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg State PhD Fellowship Bursary) 3-year PhD scholarship award
2008-09: Graduate Erasmus Scholarship to study Medieval History (M.A. level) at the University of York, UK
Modernist Literature World Palestinian Literature Postcolonial and Globalization Theory Psychoanalytic Theory
Current Projects:
My current research examines how Palestinian literary productions have surmounted their circumscribed position within the Arabic context. Looking beyond the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Arab diaspora, it is a sine-qua-non condition to recognize artistic expressions of Palestinian experiences articulated in English, Spanish, Italian, Danish, and Hebrew, among other languages from the Americas, Europe, and Israel. The critical move of interlacing literary productions by Palestinian authors in different languages is necessary in the case of Palestinian literature, since it amalgamates works that represent diverse deterritorialized experiences in the absence of a successful nation-building project. My contention is that these writings are critically important insofar as they expand the scope of the linguistic-cultural framework whereby it is possible to express and interpret today’s increasingly diverse Palestinian experiences.
Curriculum Vitae:
Fellowships and Grants:
The ISF Grant 2018-2021: Israel Science Foundation.
The MAOF Grant for Outstanding Young Researchers 2017-2020: Council for Higher Education, Israel.
The Martin Buber Postdoctoral Fellowship 2014-17: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prizes:
The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award 2009: The Joseph Conrad Society of America.
The Dickens Project Prize 2009: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Annenberg Fellowship 2008-9: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Education:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ph. D.in English Literature (2007-2012).
Doctoral Dissertation: “Symptoms of the Real in Joseph Conrad’s and William Faulkner’s Fiction.”
Languages
Danish (mother tongue): Speak, read, and write fluently.
Arabic (mother tongue): Speak, read, and write fluently.
English (mother-tongue fluency): Speak, read, and write fluently
Hebrew (fluent): Speak, read, and write fluently.
Fellowships and Prizes
The Annenberg Fellowship 2008-9: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Dickens Project Prize 2009: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award 2009: The Joseph Conrad Society of America.
The Martin Buber Postdoctoral Fellowship 2014-15: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Conferences and Others
“The Emergence of a New Paternal Specter.” Seminar Study Group organized at The Dickens Universe annual convention. University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S. 1st-8th August, 2009. Attended The Joseph Conrad Society of America banquet dinner to accept The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award at the MLA annual convention. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S. 27th-31st December, 2009.
“From Symptom to Sinthome: A Discourse of Psychosis.” Presented at the ACLA annual Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana U.S. 1st-4th April, 2010.
“Confronting the Nonsensical: Narrations of Survival.” (Organizer) Presented at the ACLA annual convention. Brown University: Providence, Rhode Island U.S. 29th March - 1st April, 2012.
“Palestinian Prose in the Global Context.” Presented at the ACLA annual convention. New York University: New York U.S. 20th-23rd March, 2014.
“Becoming Palestinian, Becoming Israeli in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua’s Second Person Singular.” Presented at the annual conference of the School of Literature of the Hebrew University. Jerusalem, Israel. 9th-10th March 2015. “Heidegger.” Seminar Study Group with Professor Simon Crichtley organized by the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. New York, U.S. 14th-21st June 2015 .
“The Problem of Nonsense from Conrad to Faulkner.” Presented at the Joseph Conrad Society’s (UK) 41st Annual Conference. London (Polish Cultural Center, Westminster) UK. 2nd-4th July 2015.[1]
Membership in Professional Societies
Member of the Modern Language Association since 2009.
Member of American Comparative Literature Association since 2010.
Member of The Joseph Conrad Society of America 2009-2012.
Publications:
Books:
Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World (Forthcoming)
Peer-reviewed articles
Benjy’s Howl: From Symptom to Sinthome in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.” E-rea [Online], 12.1 | 2014, Online since 15 December 2014, connection on 15 December 2014. URL: http://erea.revues.org/3949 ; DOI : 10.4000/erea.3949.
“Palestinian Writings in the World: a Polylingual Literary Category Between Local and Transnational Realms.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Vol. 19. no. 2, 2017: 258-282. On the internet since 20 October 2016. DOI:10.1080/1369801X.2016.1231590.
“Literary Trespassing in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua’s Second Person Singular.” Comparative Literature Vol. 69 no. 2, 2017: 222-237. DOI: 10.1215/00104124-3865413
“When the Exile Brings a Key: the Poetics of Palestinian “Homecomings.” (Hebrew). OT, Vol. 7, Spring 2018.
“The Palestinian Nation and its Women across Borders and Generations.” ACLA annual convention. Georgetown University, Washington DC. 7th-10th Mar, 2019.
“When the Exile Brings a Key.” Talk for the departments of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies. Duke University, Durham. 5th March 2019.
“Leaving Palestine.” (Workshop Global History, Literature, and Culture). Freie Universität Berlin, 14 February, 2019.
“What the Sea brought to Palestine.” (Workshop GlobalHistory, Literature, and Culture). University of Haifa, 13 December, 2018.
(Invited) “1948 in Israel and Palestine.” (Workshop). Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst. 4th-6th Oct, 2018.
“Literary Solidarities among Palestinian Women Authors in the Diaspora.” ACLA annual convention. University of California, Los Angeles. 29th Mar-1st Apr, 2018.
(Invited) “‘Our’ English Department.” The Annual Conference of the Study of English Literatures in Israel (SELI). Bar Ilan University, 1 February, 2018.
(Invited) “Palestinian Writings in the World.” Colloquium in the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar Ilan University. 23rd Jan, 2018.
“The Anglophone Palestinian Novel.” (also organizer with Dr. Shai Ginsburg (Duke University) of the seminar “Dis-connect? Re-Assembling the Israeli-Palestinian Encounter Anew”). ACLA annual convention. University of Utrecht, Netherlands. 6th-9th July 2017.
“The Palestinian Story in English!” The Inaugural Conference of the Study of English Literatures in Israel (SELI). The University of Haifa, Port Campus. 8th-9th February, 2017.
(Invited) “Borrowed Palestinian Returns between Memory and Narration.” ACLA annual convention. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, U.S. 17th-20th March 2016.
History of early modern Britain and Europe History of gender and sexuality History of medicine History of the family
Current Projects:
Adult sisters and kinship network in early modern England
Parent-child conflicts in the early modern period.
Anatomical models of pregnant women in seventeenth-century Germany
Curriculum Vitae:
Fellowships
Martin Buber Society of Fellows, HUJI, From 2014
George L. Mosse Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Gender and Sexuality, HUJI, 2013-2014
Education
Ph.D in History, Brown University, 2012
B.A in History, Tel Aviv University, 2005
Awards
Marie J. Langlois Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in an area of Feminist Studies,2012
CLIR Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities in Original Sources, 2009-2010
Presentations
"To have a jolly child of mine own body borne:" The Significance of Infertility in Early Modern England, Conference on Infertility in History, Science and Culture, University of Edinburgh, July 2013
Aristocratic Women and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern England, American Historical Association, January 2012
Infertility and Immorality: Stigmas Against Infertile Women in Early Modern England, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women , June 2011
Queens, Cuckolds and Cures: Royal Infertility and Taking the Waters in Seventeenth-Century England, AAHM, April 2011
Dealing with Infertility In Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, Sarah Doyle Dissertation Series, Brown University April 2011
‘I Doubt if I Should Prove with Child’: Anxieties about Fertility in Early Modern England, Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar, Brown University, March 2010
‘Conceiving’ the Ideal Marriage: Guides to Conception and Ideals of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century England, NECBS, Oct. 2009
Gendering the Queen: Gendered Identities in the Life of Henrietta-Maria of England, Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, UIUC, March 2009
Publications:
Infertility in Early Modern England (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017)
"The Desire for Children in Early Modern England" [Hebrew], Zmanim, forthcoming.
“Literate Laywomen, Male Medical Practitioners and the Treatment of Fertility Problems in Early Modern England”, Social History of Medicine, Vol 29, Issue 2, May 2016.
“Introduction: Special Issue on Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine”, Social History of Medicine,with Catherine Rider, Vol 29, Issue 2, May 2016.
“From Anne to Hannah: Religious Views of Infertility in Post-Reformation England”, Journal of Women's History, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2015.
Religions of late antiquity Ritual and discourse Purity and defilement Demonology Biblical exegesis in late antiquity
Curriculum Vitae:
Education and Positions
2014-2015 Postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
2013-2014 Junior Research Fellowship at the Deichmann Program for Jewish and Christian Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.
2011-2014 DPhil in Theology, University of Oxford. Dissertation title: ’All is Pure for the Pure’: Redefining Purity and Defilement in Early Greek Christianity, From Paul to Origen. Supervisor: Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa.
2009-2010 MA in Religious Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduated with honors. Dissertation title: Vegetable Offerings in the Roman Empire.
2006-2008 BA in General History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduated with honors.
2000-2002, 2005 Talmudic Studies, Yeshivat Har Etzion.
Courses Taught
2015 Religions in the Greek and Roman worlds (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
2014 Messaging God: ancient Jewish, Christian and pagan views on religious practice (Ben Gurion University of the Negev).
2013 Ancient ritual theory (Mansfield College, University of Oxford).
2011-2012 Anthropology of Classical religions (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford).
Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire (Worcester College, University of Oxford).
Awards
2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013-2014 Junior Research Fellowship at the Deichmann Program for Jewish and Christian Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2011-2013 Doctoral Studentship in the Study of the Abrahamic Religions (Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford).
2009 Sternberg Prize for Interfaith Understanding (Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
2006 Merit scholarship for undergraduate studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Additional Academic Work Experience
2012-2013 Research and editing for the volume Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians, edited by Beate Dignas, Robert Parker and Guy G. Stroumsa (Leuven: Peeters, 2013).
2010-2013 Research assistant to Professor Guy G. Stroumsa.
2008-2009 Editor and translator of academic publications for the Macro Center for Political Economics.
Associate Editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, with Guy G. Stroumsa and Adam Silverstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press [forthcoming]
Journal articles and book chapters
“Purity opposed: Christian Identity Formation in Third Century Polemics against Death Defilement”, Studia Patristica 63 (2013), pp. 373-84.
Forthcoming
“How Many Pigs were there on Noah’s Ark? An Exegetical Encounter on the Nature of Impurity”, Harvard Theological Review.
“Purity and Defilement”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, edited by Guy G. Stroumsa, Adam Silverstein and Moshe Blidstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Between Ritual and Moral Purity: Early Christian Views on Dietary Laws”, in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches, edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Biblical Interpretation Series. Brill.
“Demons and Pollution: Greek, Jewish and Christian Models”, Kernos Supplements, Proceedings of the 14th conference of the Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique.
Translations
Translation into Hebrew of Guy G. Stroumsa, The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity (קץ עידן הקורבנות: תמורות דתיות בשלהי העת העתיקה, ירושלים: מאגנס, 2013).
Other
Thinking Bible, a 30-lesson online course on the Book of Judges for Yeshivat Har Etzion’s online study program, 2005.
Papers delivered
“Deed and Word in Late Ancient Christian and Jewish Biblical Exegesis”, European Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Paris, July 2014.
“Behind the Temple: The Form and Function of Back Rooms in Ancient Sanctuaries”, Conference of the Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Beersheva, May 2014.
“Demons and Pollution: Greek, Jewish and Christian Models”, 14th conference of the Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique, Liège, October 2013.
“Asceticism and Identity: Perspectives from Early Christian Discourse on Purity and Defilement”, Interdisciplinary Seminar for the Study of Religion, University of Oxford, Hilary Term, 2013.
“Purifying Purity: Approaches to the Problem of Embodiment in Early Christian Discussions of Purity Laws”, Conference of the European Society for the Study of Religion, Utrecht, August 2012.
“Perceptions of Space and Death Defilement in Early Christianity”, Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Amsterdam, July 2012.
“How Many Pigs were there on Noah’s Ark? An Exegetical Encounter in Eighth Century Syria”, Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, April 2012.
“Purity opposed: Christian Identity Formation in Third Century Polemics Against Death Defilement”, 16th International Conference of Patristics, Oxford, August 2011.
“Vegetal offerings in the Roman Empire: A New Look at the End of Sacrifice”, Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, London, July 2011.
“Between Ritual and Moral Purity: Early Christian Views on Dietary Laws,” The St. Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies: Authoritative Texts and Reception History, June 2011.
“Visions of Purity: Porphyry and Julian on Religious Elites”, Graduate Workshop of the Princeton-Oxford Project, Oxford, January 2011.
“Vegetable Offerings in the Roman Empire”, Graduate Seminar of the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 2010.
Theater and performance studies Sound, voice and auditory media in theater and performance-art Feminist theater and performance theory
Curriculum Vitae:
Education:
2005-2012 Ph.D. Theatre Studies. The Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University. Dissertation title: “Voice-Identity-Presence: The Rhetoric's of Ventriloquism in Contemporary Women’s Vocal Performance Art”. Supervisor: Professor Freddie Rokem
2004-2005 M.A. Theatre Studies (Summa cum Laude). The Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University. (Direct doctoral program)
2001-2003 B.A. The Multidisciplinary Program of the Arts (Summa cum Laude). The Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University.
2002: Cited on Dean’s List for Excellence, Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University.
Scholarships and Fellowships
2014- The Martin Buber Fellows Society. Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University.
2014 Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University. Declined.
2013-2014 ICORE Post-Doctoral scholarship. Da'at Hamakom: Center for Research Excellence for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World.
2009-2010 German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) Scholarship.
2008-2009 Salter Scholarship.
2007-2008 Tel-Aviv University President’s Doctoral Fellowship in Fine Arts.
2007 The Dr. Lillian Chutick and Dr. Rebecca Chutick scholarship for Outstanding Female Doctoral Students. Tel-Aviv University.
2005-2007 Tel-Aviv University Rector (Provost) Doctoral Fellowship in Fine Arts.
Publications:
Peer-Review Journals
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2009. Envoicing the Future: Victoria Hanna’s Exterior Voice. Theatre Research International, 34:159-165.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2013. In Search of the Authors Voice: 'The Strindberg Project', a Performance by the Cullberg Ballet. European Stages 1.1: 101-105.
Abeliovich Ruthie. Voice, Identity, Presence: Stammering as an Aural Image in Victoria Hanna's Performance ‘Signals.’ Theatre Journal (Forthcoming).
Abeliovich Ruthie. The Occupying Spectator: Audio-Spatial Ruptures in Performative Representation of Israeli-Palestinian Encounters.” Performance Research 19.6 (Forthcoming).
Books Edited
Abeliovich Ruthie, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, and Linda Ben-Zvi (Eds.). 2015. A stage of Their Own: Seven American Feminist Plays. Tel-Aviv University press: Assaph. (Hebrew).
Academic Textbook
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2012. Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre: Advanced course Study Guide. Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press. (Hebrew).
Book Chapters
Abeliovich Ruthie. The Liberating Language of "Ach Ach Boom Trach!", A play written by Norman Issa and Yoav Bar Lev. (Hebrew). Multicultural Theatre in Israel. Eds. Shimon Levy, Olga Levitan and Shai Bar-Yaakov. Tel-Aviv: Safra. (Hebrew) (Forthcoming).
Abeliovich Ruthie. The voice of The Nation's Mother: Hanna Rovina as An Acoustic Icon. Habima: New Studies on National Theatre. Eds. Gad Kaynar, Dorit Yerushalmi and Shelly Zer-Zion. Tel-Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew) (Forthcoming).
Drama Translations
Yankowitz Susan. "Night Sky". In: Abeliovich Ruthie, Linda Ben-Zvi, and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi and (Eds.). A Stage of Their Own: Hebrew Translations of American Women Playwrights. Tel-Aviv University press: Assaph. (Hebrew) (Forthcoming).
Michal Frenkel is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she has served as a department chair (2018-2022). Her research focuses on power relations in and around organizations, examined through a dual lens: (i) How power relations affect the production of managerial knowledge and practices and how the latter are institutionalized, transferred, and implemented across national boundaries; and (ii) The role of such knowledge and practices in the reproduction of gender-, ethnicity-, race-, and religiosity-based social hierarchies. She studies the multilayered nature of power and theorizes the interrelations between the global, national, organizational, and interpersonal power dynamics and how these shape organizational control and members’ compliance, agency, and resistance in organizations. Her current studies focus on gender-religiosity intersectionality at work and the intersection of gender and age in shaping academic careers.
As a public sociologist, she applies insights from her studies (and others) to help public and private organizations implement more inclusive employment practices and become more family-friendly and egalitarian in their approach toward marginalized groups. She is a frequent commentator on questions of work, organization, and gender equity in the Israeli media. She enjoys mentoring up-and-coming scholars and has worked closely with more than fifty graduate and postdoctoral students in developing their studies and academic careers.