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Research Areas
Jewish History within the Conceptual Foundations of European, particularly German Social Science and Social Thought, The History of Anti-Semitism within Science, and Israeli Cultural Ideology
Higher Education
| 2004 |
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, PhD (Summa cum Laude), Dissertation Title: “Disciplinary Paradigms and Jewish Assimilation: The Jews as Object of Research”. Supervisors: Prof. Sander L. Gilman, Prof. Eli Lederhendler, Prof. Gabriel Motzkin |
| 1995-1999 |
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Direct Doctoral Course at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry |
| 1993-1995 |
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, B. A. (Summa cum Laude) in Jewish History and General Studies; Faculty of Humanities.
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Academic Positions
| 2008 |
Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa |
| 2008 |
Director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society |
Academic Affiliations
| 2010 |
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Fellow |
| 2009 |
Glossberg Visiting Israeli Scholar, Knox College, Galesburg Illinois |
| 2008 |
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2007 |
The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, Polonsky Foundation Fellow |
| 2007 |
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Jewish Culture, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2005-2007 |
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Department of Jewish Thought |
| 2005 |
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2004-2005 |
The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry |
| 2003 - 2004 |
The Department of Sociology and The Divinity School, The University of Chicago and The Humanities Laboratory, The University of Illinois – Chicago, Chicago, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2003 |
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Jewish Culture, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Visiting Research Fellow |
| 2002 |
Franz Rosenzweig Research Center, The Hebrew University, Visiting Research Fellow |
| 2001-2003 |
The Freudian Field Institute, Clinical Section of Jerusalem, Under the Auspices of the Department of Psychoanalysis University of Paris – VIII, Jerusalem |
| 1998-2000 |
The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Visiting Graduate Student |
Publications
-Editor: Georg Simmel: "How is Society Possible?" and Other Essays (Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad: Tel-Aviv, 2012) [Hebrew]
-The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science (New York and London: Routledge, 2008).
Articles
-"Anthropology, Standardisation and Measurement: Rudolf Martin and anthropometric photography,“ British Journal for the History of Science, 1-30 available online February 2012.
-"Analytical Principle and Life–Philosophy: The Racial Theory of Hans F. K. Günther," in Racism, ed. Yair Auron (The Open University: Tel Aviv, 2010), 65-84 [Hebrew]
-"Surface, Depth, and Teleology in Israeli Culture: The Case of the Hebrew Expression ‘tachles bashetach," Jewish Culture and History 11 (3) 2009, 39–58.
-"Argumentative Patterns and Epistemic Considerations: Responses to anti-Semitism in the Conceptual History of Social Science," Jewish Quarterly Review100, no. 3 (2010): 454-482.
-"Life in Two-Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory in Israeli Culture,” Theory and Criticism, 36, no.10, 35-60 [Hebrew]
-"Circumventions and Confrontations: Responses to anti-Semitism in Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin," Patterns of Prejudice, 44, no. 2 (2010): 195 – 215.
-“Ruppin and the Peculiarities of Race: A Response to Etan Bloom”, History of European Ideas 34, no. 1 (2008): 116-119.
-"The Controversy over the Foundation of Sociology and its Object: Simmel's Form versus Durkheim's Collectivity", in Traditions of Controversy, ed. Marcelo Dascal and Han-Liang Chang (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007): 227-243.
-"Arthur Ruppin on Race: Theory and Practice", in Racism in Israel, ed. Yossi Yonah and Yehouda Shenhav (Forthcoming, Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad) [Hebrew]
-"Arthur Ruppin's Conception of Race and the Middle East", Transversal: Zeitschrift für jüdische Studien 7, no. 2 (2006): 19-32.
-"Extinction of Jewish Existence or a Modern Form of Identity? Assimilation as an Analytical Category in Early Formulations of Social Science," Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel 17 (2007): 179-195 [Hebrew].
-"End on Surface: Teleology and Ground in Israeli Culture," Representations 97 (Winter 2007): 123-150.
-“Method, Project, and the Racial Characteristics of Jews: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther," Jewish Social Studies, 13, no. 1, (2006): 136-169.
-"The 'Negative' Jew and Individuality," Jewish Quarterly Review 97, no. 1 (2006): 100-127.
-"Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race," Israel Studies 11, no. 3 (2006): 1-30.
-"Bildung and German - Jewish History: Idea and Ethos", in The German Jewish Encounter: Sixty Years After the War, ed. Ben Mollov (2006): 38-47.
-Race, Ideas, and Ideals: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther," History of European Ideas 32, no. 3 (2006): 313-332.
-“Franz Boas’ Linguistic Paradigm and the Paradox of the Jews’ Group-Existence," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 21 (2005): 252-269.
-"From autonomous Subject to free Individual in Simmel and Lacan", History of European Ideas 31, no. 1 (2005): 103-127.
-"Epistemologies of Jewish Assimilation – Ethnic Markers and Social Scientific Paradigms", Simon Dubnow Yearbook 3 (2004): 431-473.
-“Three Paradigms of ‘The Negative Jew’: ‘Identity’ from Simmel to Zizek," Jewish Social Studies10, no. 2 (2004): 179-214.
-“ ‘The Beautiful Jew is a Moneylender’: Money and Individuality in Simmel’s Rehabilitation of the ‘Jew’”, Theory Culture & Society, 20, no. 4 (2003): 127-142.
-“Simmel’s and Lacan’s Ethics of the Exception”, Telos 123 (Spring 2002): 131-148.
-“What will be done with the shattered subject? Simmel’s and Lacan’s radically contrasting Views“, Almanac of Psychoanalysis III (2002): 187-197.
Other Publications / Reviews
- "Assimilation," Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture and History [German].
- Review of Veronika Lipphardt, Biologie der Juden: Jüdische Wissenschaftler über "Rasse""Rasse" und Vererbung, 1900- 1935 (Berlin: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29, no. 2 (2011): 206-209.
- Review of Mitchell B. Hart, The Healthy Jew (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007), Studies in Contemporary Jewry (2010): 192-193.
- Review of Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton univ. Press, 2008), The Journal of Religion 89 (2009): 586-587.
- - Review of Cyril Reade, Mendelsohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), Zion LLXXIII, no. 3 (2008): 367-370 [Hebrew].
-Contributor, “Yad Vashem”, Eclipse of Humanity: The History of the Jews in the Holocaust, Educational Disc, Yad Vashem 2000.
-["'Individual Law' and Universal Ethics: A Question through a Heretic Sociologist", Freudian Notebooks, 12 (6 2002) [Hebrew].
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