World Jewry - Views from Israel
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| Name | Academic Level | Main field(s) of research |
| Reut Rizi | Volunteer | The public discourse on teachers' freedom of political expression |
| Tamar Yael Gibli | Phd Candidate | Social history, homeland-diaspora relations, nationhood and ethnicity, and research into the media discourse; her doctoral dissertation surveys the Mizrahi stsruggle in Israel in the American Jewish press |
Talia Gorodess
| Phd Candidate | Historian. Deals with the perception of David Ben-Gurion's national vision through his relations with American Jewry. Studies concepts such as "mamlakhtiyut" ("stateness"), national security, and homeland-diaspora relations. Examines historical demarches through the prism of poltiical theory. |
| Leonel Caraciki | Phd Candidate | International and political history; 1970s public discourse in American Jewish communities concerning the UN "Zionism is racism" resolution; interested in human rights, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism |
| Matan Sandler Tadmor | Phd Candidate | Migration and national identity; how American Jews interpret Zionist national culture in Israel; the wave of American Jewish immigration to Israel after the Six-Day War as a case study |
| Aharon Ariel Lavi | Phd Candidate | The history of ideas in the Zionist context; the Jew and the Israeli; focusing now on the growth of Jewish conservatism in tension between Israeli society and North American Jewry |
| Dr. Adi Sherzer | Adjunt Researcher | The growth of statist culture in Israel, the complex relationship of Israeliness and Jewishness and between Israel and the Diaspora in applying "mamlakhtiyut" ("stateness"), and relations between military and society |
| Dr. David Guedj | Post-Doc Fellow | Cultural and intellectual history of north African Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Dr. Einat Libel Hass | Dr. Volunteer | Anthopologist and historian. Her doctoral dissertation deals with the development of Reform Judaism as an outgrowth of Conservative Judaism in Tel Aviv: organizational patterns and identities. Areas of interest: liberal Judaism, founders of the Reform Movement in Israel, community studies, urban anthropology, cultural dynamics between Israel and North America, and postdocumentary oral history at Bar-Ilan University |
| Dr. Aryeh Tepper | Adjunt Researcher | MENA Jewry: networks and relationships between Israel and the Sephardi-Jewish world, especially in the musical context; Ethiopian Jewry: the status of Ethiopian tradition in a socio-religious context; Geez and Israeli Geez; music as a mystical language |
| Dr. Ofir Abu | Volunteer | Political scientist, studies conflicts surrounding ethnic, national, and religious identities |
| Dr. Natan Aridan | BGRI Staff | The feminine factor in Israeli diplomacy; the Jewish factor in designing Israeli foreign policy; shaping Israeli policy toward the Israel lobby and supporters of Israel in the United States |
| Dr. Aviad Moreno | BGRI Faculty | MENA Jewry, migration, networks and relationships between Israel and the Sephardi-Jewish world |
| Dr. Ben Herzog | BGRI Faculty | Sociologist, social perceptions of relations between the individual and the state, mainly as manifested in the institution of citizenship. Studies the consolidation of these relations after the establishment of statehood and the changes they underwent and what they mean for Israeli society. Currently examining the sense of loyalty to the state at the formal level. |
| Prof. Ofer Shiff | BGRI Faculty | Two main areas of research: (1) Israel-Diaspora relations as derived from perceptions of Israel "stateness," and (2) "Holocaust plays" as indicators of changing perceptions of "rebirth" as an antithesis of "exile" |
| Dr. Michel Gherman | Post-Doc Fellow | Political history: the history of non-Jewish Zionism; the Brazilian New Right and the political use of Israeli Zionism as a central political element in the ultra-conservative political identity |
| Haim Biton | Phd Candidate | History: research into Israel and Moroccan Jewry from perspectives such as society, migration, culture, and collective memory |
| Dr. Elazar Ben-Lulu | Post-Doc Fellow | Anthropology: studies the intersection of Judaism, sexuality, and gender; interested in Reform Jewish liturgy in Israel and North America, |
| David Ben-Gurion: Political Thought and Leadership |
| Name | Academic Level | Main field(s) of research |
| Amir Aizenman | Phd Candidate | The public education system in the Israeli welfare state era and interrelations of politics and society in education |
| Tir a-El Cohen | Phd Candidate | |
| Omri Du-nour | Phd Candidate | Utopianism and realism in Israeli political thinking |
| Shachar Re'em | Phd Candidate | Hum anitian aid and international development in Israel and worldwide |
| Shimon Israeli | Phd Candidate | Zionist culture and the role of the Talmud in Zionist and Israeli society |
| Dr. Oren Kalman | Volunteer | Mapai and the Zionist Labor Movement, development towns, and Mizrahi-Ashkenazi relations in Israel's first two decades |
| Dr. Gabriel Haritos | Post-Doc Fellow | The history of Israel's foreign policy, Israel-Greece-Cyprus relations, Israel and the "new states" in the 1960s |
| Dr. Omri Shafer-Raviv | Post-Doc Fellow | The history of the Israel-Palestinian confict, the Israeli economy, and the Cold War |
| Dr. Maya Mark | Post-Doc Fellow | Legal history, political history, history of regulation in Israel, Menachem Begin and the Herut Movement |
| Dr. Hila Shalem Baharad | Post-Doc Fellow | Social history; migration, ethnicity, intergroup relations, and social processes in migrants' habitus; social stratification in Israel; and research on MENA Jewry |
| Dr. Elia Etkin | Post-Doc Fellow | Urban history, history of urban neighborhoods and communities, the Mandate era and Israel's early years |
| Dr. Gili Gofer | Adjunt Researcher | Gender, history of the Zionist Labor Movement, the welfare state, welfare policy in Israel, education |
| Dr. Adi Portughies | BGRI Staff | Director of the Ben-Gurion Archives, researcher of changes in the Israeli Left 1967-1982 |
| Prof. Nir Kedar | Volunteer | Israeli history, history of law, theory of state and law |
| Eitan Donyets | Volunteer | Director of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute |
| Shmuel Adler | Volunteer | Deputy director of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute |
Prof. Paula Kabalo
| BGRI Faculty | History of civil associations and civil society in Israel and the Land of Israel Jewish community in the years precedng the establishment of the State of Israel and Israel in its first three decades; researcher into relations between David Ben-Gurion and various sectors of Israeli society Diaspora communities, and the international community at large, all on the basis of leadership-follower theories. Her current studies deal with community resilience. A broad-based study in progress at the present writing centers on the phenomenon of neighborhood committees in Israel's first three decades: neighborhood committees in Israel as manifestations of grassroots and internal leadership 1948-1977 |
| Prof. Avi Bareli | BGRI Faculty | Political, socioeconomic, and intellectual history of the State of Israel |
| Dr. Daniel Rikenbacher | Post-Doc Fellow | Pan-Islam and Pan-Arabism in the Land of Israel |
| Prof. Esther Meir-Glitzenstein | BGRI Faculty | Twentieth-century history of Jewry in the Islamic lands, chiefly Iraq: migration, culture, identity. Her current research centers on the immigration of Yemenite Jewry to Israel |
| Dr. Havatzelet Yahel | BGRI Faculty | Historical and legal geogrpahy, land and settlement policy, minority rights, indigenous peoples, museology |
| Zionist Ethoses in Education |
| Name | Academic Level | Main field(s) of research |
| Dr. Tali Tadmor-Shimoni | BGRI Faculty | History of Hebrew and Israeli education, curricula, and transnationalism in education |
| Renana Kristal | Phd Candidate | Development of education of blind children in the Land of Israel (1902-1959); history of education and disability; perception of disability in Land of Israel Jewish society; social initiatives, policy change, representation and images of disability in Land of Israel culture; childhood and disability |
Mirit Bat-Chorin
Di-Nour | Phd Candidate | Social history with emphasis on youth culture, youth movements, kibbutz society, and center-periphery relations; pioneering and fulfillment ethos, and the changes that these worlds underwent |
| Rivka Grossman | Phd Candidate | Teacher training, Jews from Islamic countries, |
| Dr. Talia Diskin | Post-Doc Fellow | Jurist and researcher of child and youth culture across the timeline |
| Dr. Orit Oved | Post-Doc Fellow | Education policy processes and history of education, focusing on curricula and curriculum planning, reforms and assimination in education systems, and Jewish contents in the State education system (religion and education) |
| Gili Gofer | Adjunt Researcher | Gender, history of the Zionist Labor Movement, the welfare state, welfare policy in Israel, and education |
| Dr. Shlomit Lir | Volunteer | Gender and media issues in culture and in the public discourse |
| Dr. Adi Binhas | Volunteer | Migration policy, multiculturalism in the education system, migrant teachers, identity and belonging, NGOs acting on behalf of migrants, Israelis of Ethiopian origin; women from special groups in academia |
| Prof. Yair Seltenreich | Volunteer | European cultural influence on Hebrew society in Land of Israel society during the Mandate era and in early Israel, particularly in the field of education; and the history of emotions in Hebrew society in the Land of Israel at that time
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| Dr. Ayelet Gil-Ronen | Post-Doc Fellow | Hebrew children's literature, philosophy of education, and teaching of literature |
| Dr. Emir Galilee | Post-Doc Fellow | Sociocultural-historical geography of various ethnic and religious groups, socio-historical geography of nomadic shepherds and indigenous peoples, tribalism in the Middle East, the Arab landscape in historical contexts, geography and literature, hiking trails, leisure and minority populations |
International PhD Candidates
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| Name | Main field(s) of research |
| Arman Kachtrian | Religion Studies, Jerusalem, Armenian Studies, Cultural Studies. |
| Claudia Dietrich | Generational Studies, Immigration, Cultural Studies, Qualitative Research, History from Below |
| Yuri Keum | Citizenship laws and immigration policies, focusing on the interaction of exclusionary citizenship regimes of ethno-democratic states and universalized children's rights, aiming at: (1) an enhanced understanding of the distinctive status of children in the contexts of ethnically-grounded citizenship practices, democratic citizenship and human rights discourse, and (2) a refined theorization of chidlren's citizenship. |
| Liz Sik | Research on Bedouin women and, through in-depth interviews, defining their personal and professional success and failure and within the larger communal context, what this says about Bedouin culture and vice versa, and how this cultural concept of success/failure shapes and defines the social, economic, and political realities.
This necessitates the exploration of culture and identity through the lense of success/failure where culture is a symbolic system unique to the Bedouin of the Negev which shapes the development of and expression of identity in all forms.
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