Yaacov Yadgar

Yaacov Yadgar

Yaacov Yadgar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He received his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University and has served as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2001) and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University (2004).

Professor Yadgar has received several grants and awards, including the Menachem Begin Heritage Center's award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation. His topic was "Intellectuals and Tradition: The Attitudes of Leading Israeli Columnists towards the Israeli National Narrative, 1967-1997." He also received the Israel Foundations Trustees research grant for the research proposal "Masortim (Traditionalists) in Israel: Modernity without Secularization?," Israeli Parliament award for outstanding students, the Rector's award for outstanding students from Bar-Ilan University, and a grant for doctoral students from the Rabin Center for Israel Studies.

His publications include, Our Story: The National Narratives in the Israeli Press (Haifa University Press, 2004, in Hebrew), and numerous articles on nationalism and ethnicity; culture and collective identity; Jewish identity in Israel; and media and politics.