Yael Zerubavel (bio)
The Allen and Joan Bildner
Center for the Study of Jewish Life
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Collective memory, autobiographical memory, history & memory
- Nationalism, national myths
- Tradition and change
- Israeli culture, Israeli literature
- Jewish memory, Jewish space
- Jewish immigrant literature
REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES
Jewish Space
PUBLICATIONS
Books Authored
Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. University of Chicago Press, 1995;
Paperback edition,1997.
Recent Articles (Selected)
“The Desert and the Settlement as Symbolic Landscapes in Modern Israeli Culture,” in Jewish Topographies Visions of Space, Traditions of Place, edited by Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt, and Alexandra Nocke. Heritage, Culture and Identity Series. London and Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008, 201-22.
“Memory, the Rebirth of the Native, and the ‘Hebrew Bedouin’ Identity,” Social Research 75:1 (Spring 2008): 315-52.
“Antiquity and the Renewal Paradigm: Strategies of Representation and Mnemonic Practices in Israeli culture,” in On Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Doron Mendels. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007, 331-48.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Israel Studies (editorial board, 1995 – present)
Journal of Israeli History (editorial board, 2002 – present)
Israel Studies Forum (editorial board, 2000 – present)
Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds (editorial board, 2005-present)
Rutgers University Press, Jewish Cultures of the World Series, (editorial board, 2007- present)
Academic Studies Press, Israel: Society, Culture, And History Series (editorial board, 2009-present)
AJS Perspectives, the bi-annual magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (editorial board, 2009 – present)
VISITING SCHOLAR / FELLOW
Kazan State University, Russia
Ben-Gurion Research Center, Ben-Gurion University, Sde Boker
Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
RECENT INVITED LECTURES (SELECTED)
The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures, “Encounters with the Past: Remembering the ‘Bygone’ in Israeli Culture,” University of Washington, May 2009.
“Jewish Studies, Jewish memory, and Israeli culture,” Kazan State University, Russia, 2007.
The 2007 Edward A. Block Lecture in Jewish Studies, “The Last Frontier? Settlement, Ecology and Tourism in the Israeli Desert," Indiana University, 2007.
"National Memory and the Recreation of Jewish Antiquity in Modern Israeli Culture," keynote lecture, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London, School of Economics, 2006.
