Research Fellow –Prof. Yotam Hotam
Prof. Yotam Hotam is a senior lecturer in the faculty of education at the University of Haifa . His research focuses on the relations between the “secular” and the “religious” in modern thought, society, politics and education and covers a variety of themes such as religion and theology in the modern-secular world, secular and post-secular theories, critical theory, political-theology, Jewish nationalism and German Jewish thought.
CV
1999-2004 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Department of History. Ph.D
1995-1998 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Department of History. MA Direct Ph.D. program for excellent students
1992-1995 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Department of History & Philosophy BA
PUBLICATIONS
Books (see also Bucerius Publications)
Yotam Hotam, Critiques of Theology: German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought (NY: SUNY, 2023).
Yotam Hotam, Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought. London: Routledge, 2013.
* Moderne Gnosis und Zionismus: Kulturekrise, Lebensphilosophie und nationaljüdisches Denken, Göttingen/Leipzig: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht In German, 2009. (German)
* Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and National Jewish Thought, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2007. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, Space and Theology: Science Fiction in a Post-Secular Age. Tel Aviv: Resling Press, 2010. (Hebrew).
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
Philip Wexler & Yotam Hotam. (Eds.). New Social Foundations for Education: Education in Post Secular Society. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Yotam Hotam & Philip Wexler (Eds.). Special Journal Issue on: Education in Post Secular Society. Critical Studies in Education. 55.1. (2014).
Yotam Hotam. (Ed.). The Age of Youth: German-Jewish Young Generation and Modern Times. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2009. (German).
* Yotam Hotam. (Ed.). The Age of Youth: German-Jewish Young Generation and Modern Times. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2008. (Hebrew).
Noam Zadof, Yotam Hotam, & Mathias Schmidt. (Eds.). History as a Vocation: An Anthology on the Occasion of Professor Moshe Zimmermann’s 60th Birthday. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2006. (Hebrew).
Moshe Zimmermann & Yotam Hotam. (Eds.). Two Homelands: The Jekkes between Central Europe and the Nearest. Frankfurt a.M: Beerenverlag, 2005. (German).
* Moshe Zimmermann & Yotam Hotam. (Eds.). Two Homelands: The Jekkes between Central Europe and the Nearest. Jerusalem: Shazar, 2005. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam & Joachim Jacob. (Eds.). German-Jewish Popular Construction of
Memory after Emigration. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2003. (German).
Articles in Refereed Journals
Hotam, Y. & Shoshana, A. “Face Control: Everynight Selection and “the Other”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 44.6 (2021): 946-965.
Hotam, Y. “Education between Critique and Theology.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 56.3 (2021): 470-486.
Hotam, Y. Ananke: An Essay on Transgression. Ma’arag, Israeli Journal for Psychoanalysis, 10 (2023): 255-277. (Hebrew).
Hotam, Y. Youth, Technology and Education: Between Benjamin and Agamben. Colloquium, 54.2 (2024): 195-212.
Yotam Hotam, “Eternal, Transcendent and Divine: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Youth”, Sophia 58 (2019): 175-195.
Yotam Hotam, “Bildung: Liberal Education and its Devout Origins”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 53.4 (2019): 619-632.
Linor Hadar, Yotam Hotam & Arie Kizel L. “No School is an Island: Negotiation between Alternative Education Ideals and Mainstream Education – The Case of Violin School”, Pedagogy Culture & Society. 26.1 (2018): 69 – 85.
Yotam Hotam, “Theocracy and Pedagogy: Public Education in a ‘Post Secular’ Israel”, Comparative Education Review. 61.3 (2017): 538-557
Yotam Hotam, “Reflexive Education: Rethinking the Relations between Secular ‘Consciousness’ and Religion”, Religion & Education. 43.3 (2016): 285-300.
Yotam Hotam, “‘Re-orient-ation’: Sport and the Transformation of the Jewish Body and Identity”, Israel Studies. 20.2: (2015): 52-75.
Itzhak Benyamini & Yotam Hotam, “An Outline for Critical Theology: An Israeli/Jewish Perspective”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 14.2 (2015): 332-339.
Yotam Hotam, “On a Horse and a Feather: Introduction to a Discussion on Transgression”, Studies in Education 7 (2014): 21-41. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam & Linor Hadar, “Pedagogy in Practice: The Pedagogy of a Learning Setting as Student Experience It”, Oxford Review of Education, 39.3 (2013): 385–399. Pedagogy in Practice: An Invitation for a Discussion. Research Papers in Education, 27.2 (2012): 187-208.
Shlomo Fischer, Yotam Hotam & Philip Wexler, “Democracy and Education in Post-Secular Society”, Review of Research in Education, 36 (2012): 261-281.
Yotam Hotam, “In the Eye of the Storm: Religiosity Today. Studies in Education, 4 (2011): 12-31.
Philip Wexler, Yotam Hotam & Shlomo Fischer, “The Sacralization of the Social and the New Paradigm for Education / Beyond the Secular/Religious Divide: Liberalism, the Sate, and Education in a Post Secular Age”, Comparative Education Review, 55.1 (2011): 122-124/134-137.
Yotam Hotam, “Ecology and Pedagogy: On Postwar Environmental Philosophy and its Educational Implications”, Policy Futures in Education, 8.3-4 (2010): 479-488.
Yotam Hotam, “Overcoming the Mentor: Heidegger’s ‘Present’ and the Presence of Heidegger in Karl Lowith’s and Hans Jonas’ Postwar Thought”, History of European Ideas, 35.1 (2009): 253-264.
Yotam Hotam, Forever Young: The Metaphysics of Youth in the Writings of Walter Benjamin. Zmanim, 102 (2008): 46-57 (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, Berdyczewski’s Saul and Paul – a Jewish Political-Theology. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 6.1 (2007): 53-68.
Yotam Hotam, “Gnosis and Modernity – A Postwar German Intellectual Debate on Secularization, Religion and ‘Overcoming’ the Past. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions”, 8.3-4 (2007): 581-598.
Yotam Hotam, “Hans Jonas and Gershom Scholem: A Story of another Friendship.” Chidushim – Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry, 7 (2005): 1-22. (Hebrew).
Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books
Yotam Hotam, “Education and Integration: Some Secular and Religious Considerations”, In: Lydia Heidrich, Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, et al. (eds.) Regimes of Belonging – Schools – Migrations. Bremen: University of Bremen Press, 2021: 81-89
Yotam Hotam, “Walter Benjamin’s Modern-Mystical Theory of Youth”, in: P. Wexler (ed.), Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation. New York: Herder & Herder, (2019): 163-181. [A reprint of “Eternal, Transcendent and Divine: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Youth”, Sophia. 58 (2019): 175-195].
Yotam Hotam, “Pedagogy, Spirituality and Curricular Design in Waldorf Education. In: P. Wexler & Y. Hotam (eds.), New Social Foundations for Education: Education in Post Secular Society. New York: Peter Lang, 2015, 91-106.
Yotam Hotam & Philip Wexler, “Education and Religion in Israel: Blurring the Boundaries of “Secular” and “Religious”, in: C. Wolhuter (ed.). International Comparative Perspectives on Religion. Bloemfontein: Sun Press, 2014, 9-27.
Yotam Hotam “Ecology and Pedagogy: On Postwar Environmental Philosophy and its Educational Implications”, in I. Gur Ze’ev (ed.), Diasporic Philosophy and Counter Education. Amsterdam: Sense, 2010, 235-250. [An adapted version of: “Ecology and Pedagogy: On Postwar Environmental Philosophy and its Educational Implications”, Policy Futures in Education, 8.3-4 (2010): 479-488].
Yotam Hotam, “Jacob Klatzkin: Modern Gnosticism and Zionism”, in C. Schmidt & E. Scheinfeld (eds.), Jewish Political Theology. Jerusalem: Van Leer, 2009, 120-138. (Hebrew)
Yotam Hotam, “Youth as a Strategy: Political-Theology, Zionism and Time”, in Y. Hotam (ed.), The Age of Youth: German-Jewish Young Generation and Modern Times. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2009, 10-24. (German) [In Hebrew: Youth as a Strategy: Political-Theology, Zionism and Time”, In Y. Hotam (ed.), The Age of Youth: German-Jewish Young Generation and Modern Times. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2008, 8-20].
Yotam Hotam, “On the Relativity of History, Time and the Historian”, in N. Zadof, Y. Hotam & M. Schmidt. (Eds.), History as a Vocation: An Anthology on the Occasion of Moshe Zimmermann’s 60th Anniversary.</e m> Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2006, 37-43.
Yotam Hotam, “Memory and Normalization: Israeli Reaction to the Austrian De-Facto Recognition”, In S. Flach & M. Zimmermann, (eds.), Israel – Austria: from the Beginnings to the Eichman Process. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005, 145-166. (German)
Yotam Hotam, “In the European Perimeter: On German-Jewish Israeli Society a Counter-Strategy”, in Y. Hotam & M. Zimmermann (eds.), Two Homelands: The Jekkes between Central Europe and the Nearest. Frankfurt a.M: Beerenverlag, 2005, 99-104. (German). [In Hebrew: “In the European Perimeter: on German-Jewish Israeli Society a Counter-Strategy”, in Y. Hotam & M. Zimmermann (eds.), Two Homelands: The Jekkes between Central Europe and the Nearest. Jerusalem: Shazar, 2005, 85-99].
Yotam Hotam, “Emigrating Memories: On Language, Identity, and Conversion of German-Jewish Emigrants”, in Y. Hotam & J. Jacob (eds.), German-Jewish Popular Construction of Memory after Emigration. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2003, 173-195. (German)
Yotam Hotam, “Theodor Lessing: Culture as a Mental Disease”, In B. Greiner & C. Schmidt (eds.), Arche Noah. The Idea of „Culture“ in the German-Jewish Discourse. Freiburg: Rombach, 2002, 273-287.
Other Scientific Works and Publications
Yotam Hotam, “Review of: Social Order and the Informal Code”, Edited by Tamar Rappoport & Ahuvia Cahana, Megamot: A Journal of Behavioral Science, 50.2: (2015): 395-399. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, (ed.), Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought, 5 (2012). (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, “Life Philosophy”. Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures. Vol 3. Edited by Dan Diner, Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2012, 487-490.
Yotam Hotam, “Review of: Children as Avant Garde Childhood and Adolescence in Times of Crises and Social Change”, edited by Kogman T. Dar Y. & Steineman J. Dapim: Journal for Studies and Research in Education, 52 (2011): 245-249. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, (ed.), Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought, 4 (2011). (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, (ed.), Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought, 3 (2010). (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, Review of: God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination, by Benjamin Lazier, Journal of Modern History, 82.4 (2010): 915-917.
Yotam Hotam, (ed.). Freud, Collected Writings. Vol. 6. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2009. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam (Ed.). Walter Benjamin, Collected Works. Vol. 1. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2009. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, Ofer Ashkenazi, Uri Levi, (eds.), Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought. 2 (2009).
Yotam Hotam, “Review of: Youth and the Informal Code, by Reuven Cahana”, Israeli Journal of Sociology 10.2 (2009): 506-509. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, “Review of: The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas”, by Christian Wiese, Zion. 73 (2009): 386-390. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, “The Guardians of the Walls, review of: Beyond the Borders, by Steven Aschheim”, Historia. 21 (2008): 127-135. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, “Nationalized Judaism and Diasporic Existence. Jakob Klatzkin and Hans Jonas”, Behemoth: A Journal on Civilization 2 (2008): 67-78.
Yotam Hotam, Sharon Gordon & Moshe Zimmermann, (eds.), Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture, Society and Thought. 1 (2008). (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, (ed.), Freud, Collected Writings. Vol. 5. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2008. (Hebrew).
Yotam Hotam, “Review of: “Erinnerungen”, by Hans Jonas”, Kabbalah, 8-12 (2004): 339-351. (Hebrew).