Rakefet J. Zalashik
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University 2006.
Thesis: History of Psychiatry Palestine/Israel 1892-1961
Major: Modern European History.
Advisors: Prof. Volkov Shulamit and Prof. Laor Nethanel.
Honors: School of History, Tel-Aviv University. Neuberger-Fund, Institute for
German History, Tel-Aviv University.
Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University.
M.A., summa cum laude, Tel-Aviv University, 2001.
Thesis: Johann Christian Reil: The Father of German Psychiatry (1759-1813)
Major: Modern European History and German History.
Advisors: Prof. Volkov Shulamit.
Honors: Munich Municipality for M.A. studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University.
Lessing-Fund, Tel-Aviv University.
Levkowich- Fund for history of medicine, Tel- Aviv University.
Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University.
B.A., Tel-Aviv University, 1996.
Majors: History; Sociology; Anthropology.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
- Health, Humanism and Society Center of the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, September 2020-
- Tel-Aviv University, Department of Public Health, Academic Institute for Structural
Reforms, Researcher, July 2019-August 2020.
- University of Edinburgh, Department of Social Sciences March 2016-July 2018.
- Visiting Scholar, Katz Center for Advance Jewish Studies, University of
Pennsylvania Autumn 2015-Spring 2016.
- Guest Professorship for Israel Studies and Medicine, Health and Society,
Vanderbilt University August 2014-December 2014.
- Guest Professorship for Israel Studies, Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of
Potsdam, August 2013-July 2014.
- Guest Professorship “Science and Jewish Culture”, Center History of Knowledge,
ETH, Zurich, Spring 2013.
- Post-Doctorate at the Goldstein Goren Center for Jewish Studies, Ben-Gurion
University, Beer Sheva September 2012-August 2013.
- Temple University, Inaugural Mirowski Fellow, Center for Humanities, August 2010
August 2012.
- University of Heidelberg and the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Inaugural Ben-
Gurion Chair for Israel and Near East Studies, September 2009-September 2010.
- University of Virginia, Dollye & Wolford Berman Visiting Israeli Professor,
September 2009-August 2010.
- Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Taub Center for Israel Studies
at New York University Assistant Professor/Faculty Dorot Fellow, September 2006
September 2009.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1. Ad Nafesh: Refugees, Immigrants, Newcomers and the Israeli Psychiatric Establishment,
Hakibutz Hameukhad, Tel-Aviv, 2008, [Hebrew].
2. Das unselige Erbe. Die Geschichte der Psychiatrie in Palaestina 1920-1960 , Campus,
Frankfurt, November 2012.
EDITORSHIP
Books
1. A Jew’s Best Friend?: The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History, Sussex Academic
Press, May 2013 (with Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman).
2. Trauma’s Omen: Israeli Studies in Identity, Memory and Representation, Bar-Ilan
University Press, December 2016, Bar-Ilan University Press and Hakibutz Hameukhad
[Hebrew] (with Michal Alberstein and Nadav Davidovitch).
3. Scientific editor of the Hebrew translation of: Michael Hagner, Der Geist bei der Arbeit.
Historische Untersuchungen zur Hirnforschung, Resling, Tel-Aviv, 2012.
4. Scientific editor of the Hebrew translation of: Roy Porter, Madness: A Brief History,
Resling, Tel-Aviv, 2009 (with Nadav Davidovitch).
5. Scientific editor of the Hebrew translation of: Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism,
Resling, Tel-Aviv, June 2009.
6. Scientific editor of the Hebrew translation of: Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of the
Everyday Life, Resling, Tel-Aviv, September, 2015.
Journals
1. Medical Borders: Historical, Political and Cultural Analyses, Science in Context, 2006; 19.
(with Nadav Davidovitch)
2. Jewish Relief Organizations, East European Jewish Affairs, April 2009 issue 39. (with
Gennady Estraich).
3. Infectious Disease in Palestine, Korot October 2012 (with Nadav Davidovitch)
4. Scientific Medicine and the Politics of Public Health: Minorities in Interwar Eastern
Europe. Science in context, December 2019 (with Nadav Davidovitch)
ARTICLES
1. “Johann Christian Reil – the father of German Psychiatry”, Zmanim; 2000; 73: 79-87.
[Hebrew]
2. “Body and soul: On lobotomies and the curing of the mentally ill”, Zmanim; 2002; 20: 82-
93 [Hebrew] (with Nadav Davidovitch)
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3. “The Psychiatric Asylum In Bnei-Brak and “The Society For The Help Of The Insane”,
1929-1939”, Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 2003-2004; 17:
47-69.
4. “Pioneering Psychiatry: Zionist Newcomers and Jewish Psychiatrists in Palestine in the
1920s”; Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel – History, Culture and Society; 2004;
6: 63-82. [Hebrew]
5. “Psychoanalysis and Colonialism – The Case of Wulf Sachs (1893-1949)”, Tel Aviver
Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte; 2004; 32: 93-106.
6. “Psychiatry, Ethnicity and Migration: The Case of Palestine 1920-1948”, Dynamis; 2005; 25:
403-422.
7. “Last Resort? Lobotomy Operations in Israel, 1946-1960”, Journal for the History of
Psychiatry, 2006; 17: 91-106. (with Nadav Davidovitch).
8. “Measuring Adaptability: Psychological Examinations of Jewish Detainees in Cyprus
Internment Camps”, Science in Context, 2006; 19: 419-441. (with Nadav Davidovitch).
9. “Medical Borders: Historical, Political, and Cultural Analyses”, Science in Context, 2006;
19: 309-316. (with Nadav Davidovitch)
10. “Recalling the Survivors: Between Memory and Forgetfulness of Hospitalized Holocaust
Survivors in Israel”, Israel Studies, 2007; 12: 145-163. (with Nadav Davidovitch).
11. “Gustav Horner in the land of Israel during Muhammad Ali Rule”, Korot: The Israel
Journal of the History of Medicine and Science; 2007; 18: 7-23 [Hebrew]. (With Zalman
Greenberg)
12. “Hadassah Neurological Department – 70th Anniversary”, Harefuah, August- September,
2008; 147:739-743 [Hebrew]. (with Yiftach Biran).
13. “Air, Sun, Water": Ideology and Activities of OZE During the Interwar Period”, Dynamis
28, 2008: 127-149 (with Nadav Davidovitch).
14. Professional Identity across the Borders: Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1933-1945, Social
History of Medicine, special volume on medical refugees from Nazi Germany, guest editor:
Paul Weindling, November, 2009; 23: 1-19.
15. Taking and Giving: the Case of the JDC and OZE in Lithuania 1919-1926, East European
Jewish Affairs 39 (1), April 2009; 57-68 (with Nadav Davidovitch).
16. From Shtetl charities to international relief organizations: Jewish Philanthropy in
Eastern Europe, East European Jewish Affairs 39 (1), April 2009; 1-5 (With Gennday Estraikh)
17. The Anti-Malaria Delegation of the League of Nations to Palestine in 1925, Cathedra 134,
2009; 49-64 (With Zalman Greeenberg). [Hebrew]
18. Pasteur in Palestine: The Politics of the Laboratory, Science in Context, 23(4), 2010; 401-
425.
20. Differenziertes Trauma: Die (Wieder) Entdeckung der Child Survivor-Kategorie, Jose
Brunner, Nathalie Zeida (eds.), Holocaust und Trauma. Kritische Perspektiven zur
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Entstehung und Wirkung eines Paradigmas, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschicht, 39;
2011.
21. The social history of medicine and Israeli history: a potential dialogue, Journal of Israeli
History: Politics, Society, Culture, 30(1); 2011, 83-88.
22. Psychiater als Fluechtlinge in Palästina (1933 bis 1945), Der Nervenarzt, March, 2012.
23. Epidemics and Infectious Diseases in the Land of Israel, 19th-20th Centuries: Historical,
Social and Political Perspectives - a Forward, Korot 21, 2011-2012; 3-17.
24. Health, Race and Nation Building: The Case of Mass Ringworm Irradiation in Israel,
Korot 21, 2011-2012; 121-147.
25. Bioethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Comparative Perspective, Theory and
Criticism, 40, 2012. [Hebrew]
26. The Anti-Favus Campaign in Poland: Jewish Social Medicine, Polin, 27, 2015; 369-384.
27. The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the
Second World War. The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 61(1), 2016; 25-40.
28. Goyische Noches?: Or canine companions as a signifier of Jewish “normaliy” in Israel.
Jalta; Positionen zur juedischen Gegenwart 1, 2017; 126-131.
29. The shadow of the Holocaust and the emergence of bioethics in Israel. Wiener klinische
Wochenschrift, 130, 2018; S183-S186.
30. Scientific Medicine and the Politics of Public Health: Minorities in Interwar Eastern
Europe. Science in context, 32(1), 2019; 1-4.
31. The course of professionalization: Jewish nursing in Poland in the interwar
period. Science in context, 32(1), 2019; 93-109.
12. Institutional, political, and military factors shaping the recognition and treatment of
combat trauma during the Israeli War of Independence (1948). Working paper. Submitted
to the open access, University of Edinburgh research database, PURE, 2019.
13. Battling the stigma: “Awake at Night” Organization as a Coping strategy with the
delayed recognition of POWs in Israel. Working paper. Submitted to the open access,
University of Edinburgh research database, PURE, 2020.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. “Kölner Juden zwischen Orient und Okzident - Die Entschädigungspraxis bei
körperlichen und gesundheitlichen Schäden“, in: Die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung.
Geschichte, Erfahrung und Wirkung in Deutschland und Israel, N. Frei, J. Brunner (eds.),
Wallstein Verlag, pp. 419-442, March 2009.
2. “Women, Law, Mental Health”, in: Margalit Shiloh, Ruth Halprin-Kadari, Eyal Katvan
(eds.), One Law and one trial for men and women: women and law during British Mandate,
Bar-Ilan University, 2011 [Hebrew].
3. “Medical Jewish Refugees in Palestine”, in: Boaz Neuman, Galili Shahar (eds.), Special
Volume for Prof. Volkov Shulamit, Am Oved, Tel-Aviv, 2012. [Hebrew].
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4. “De l’Est vers l’Ouest: demenage: déménagements, expansion, évolutions structurelles de
l'OZE-OSE (1912-1933)” In: L Hobson Faure, M. Gardet, K. Hazan and C. Nicault (eds).
L’oeuvre de secours aux enfants et les populawtions juives au XXe siècle, 11-126.
5. “Azit the Paratrooper Dog”, Rakefet Zalashik, Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (eds.), A Jew’s
Best Friend?: The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History, Sussex Academic Press,
2012.
6. Jewish American philanthropy and the crisis of 1929: the case of OZE-TOZ and the JDC, in:
Diner, H. R., & Estraikh, G. (Eds.). (2013). 1929: Mapping the Jewish World (Vol. 13). NYU Press,
pp. 93-106.
7. Nazi Medical Atrocities and the Israeli Medical Discourse 1940s-1990s, Volker Roelke,
Sascha Topp, Etienne Lepicard (eds.)Silence, Scapegoats, Self-Reflection. The Shadow of
Nazi Medical Crimes on Medicine and Bioethics, Giessen, 2014.
8. Introduction – Collective Trauma in Israel, M. Alberstein, Nadav Davidovitch, Rakefet
Zalashik (eds.), Trauma’s Omen: Israeli Studies in Identity, Memory and Representation,
Bar-Ilan University Press, December 2016, Bar-Ilan University Press and Hakibutz
Hameukhad, 2016 [Hebrew].
9. The psychiatrically hospitalized survivors in Israel: A historical overview, D. Laub, A.
Hamburger (eds)., Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony. Unwanted Memories of Social
Trauma, Routledge, 2017.
10. Appetite and Hunger: discourses and perceptions of food among Eastern European Jews
in the Interwar Years, In: Petrini, C. (2018). Global Jewish Foodways: A History. U of Nebraska
Press, pp, 161-180.
11. Medical Welfare in Interwar Europe: The Collaboration between JDC and OZE-TOZ
Organizations, in: A. Patt, A. Grossman, L. Levi & M. Mandel (eds.)The JDC at 100: A Century of
Humanitarianism. Wayne State University Press, 2019, pp. 21-40.
