Visiting Faculty
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Yael ZerubavelFounding Director,
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life Professor of Jewish Studies & History
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Tel-Aviv University
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(732) 932-2033
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Collective memory; history and memory
- Zionism and Hebrew national culture
- Myths and ritual
- Modern Hebrew literature
- Jewish immigrant literature
PUBLICATIONS
Books Authored
Recovered Roots: Collective Memory
and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. (University
of Chicago Press, 1995).
Paperback edition (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Forthcoming: Desert Images: Visions of the Counter-Place in Israeli
Culture
(under contract with the University of Chicago
Press)
Articles
“Female Images in a State of War: Ideology, Crisis, and the Politics of Gender in Israel,” in Amir Weiner, ed. Landscaping the Human Garden:
20th Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework,”
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, 236-57.
“Trans-Historical Encounters in the Land of Israel: National Memory, Symbolic Bridges, and the Literary Imagination,” Jewish Social Studies 11:3, (Spring/ Summer 2005):115-40.
REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES
Israeli Culture
Cultural Memory
Jewish Immigrant Experience
Jewish Memory
Trauma and Memory in Israeli Culture
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association for Jewish Studies
Association for Israel Studies
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University
Ben-Gurion Research Center at Ben-Gurion University
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
Israel Studies
Journal of Israeli History
Israel Studies Forum