fellows

I held a tenure track position at Haifa U (Theatre department) for 5 years (including tenure), after which I moved to Tel Aviv U. I am currently a principle investigator of a 5 years ERC research project.  

Women’s Writing
Jewish Literatures
French, Portuguese & Turkish Literatures
Cultural and Literary History

Neo-Aramaic
Semitic Linguistics
Language Documentation
Jewish Folklore
Oral Culture

Current Projects: 

Buber Fellow: 2011 to 2013

Dr. Alperson-Afil currently holds a position in Archaeology at the Bar- Ilan University.

Medical, psychological
Economic anthropology
Intersections of anthropology and philosophy
Feminist epistemologies

Applied Linguistics
Freirian Pedagogies
English in Local-Global Contexts
Cultural Discourses
Language and Identity Politics

Current Projects

Post-doc (wisseschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)

Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University's Philosophy Department

After my time at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, I have been teaching and researching at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Münster since 2016.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Jewish History
History of Science and Medicine
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Ladino and Jewish Languages

Religious Change 

Antisemitism Studies 

Jewish Education 

Identity Contruction

Monetary History
Non-Governmental Currencies
Corporate History
Economic Daily Lives
Material Culture
History Education

Email: idit.benor@mail.huji.ac.il