Department of Jewish History

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2024

• 1322 Citations
• 19 h-index
• 195 Article
• 83 Chapter
• 35 Book
• 24 Conference contribution
• 34 More
  • 12 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 10 Review article
  • 5 Conference article
  • 2 Comment/debate
  • 2 Editorial
  • 1 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Book/Film/Article/Arts review
  • 1 Special issue

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Leo Strauss in Paris 1933: A Missed Opportunity for a Dialogical Understanding of the Crisis of Liberalism

  Cohen-Skalli, C., 1 Jan 2024, Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis: Interpretation, Heresy, and History: Interpretation, Heresy, and History. de Gruyter, p. 213-239 27 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• MARXISM AND ZIONISM: Entangled Roads

  Navon, T., 1 Jan 2024, Routledge Handbook on Zionism. p. 167-182 16 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• THE MEANING OF ZIONISM AFTER 1948: An American Zionist Understanding

  Segev, Z., 1 Jan 2024, Routledge Handbook on Zionism. p. 47-58 12 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The reception of the Books of Kings in Medieval Judaism

  Cohen-Skalli, C., 20 Jun 2024, The Oxford Handbook of the Books of Kings. p. 431-445 15 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The reception of the Books of Kings in rabbinic literature

  Lavee, M., 20 Jun 2024, The Oxford Handbook of the Books of Kings. p. 398-415 18 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2022

  Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism

  Silber, M., 2022, From Europe's East to the Middle East: Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages. Moss, K. B., Nathans, B. & Tsurumi, T. (eds.). University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 87-116 (Jewish culture and contexts.).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Zionism 100%
  • Nationalism 68%
  • Poland 46%
  • Jewish Nationalism 32%
  • Polish Culture 31%

• Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources

  Lavee, M., 2022, Brill Reference Library of Judaism. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 31-62 32 p. (Brill Reference Library of Judaism; vol. 70).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Traduction : l'intrigue religieuse et séculière du concept allemand de traduction

  Cohen Skalli, C., 2022, Il Pensiero : rivista di filosofia. C-Y. Z. (ed.). Vol. LXI. p. 101-116

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• היצירה הספרותית היהודית

  ניומן, ה., 2022, ארץ-ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה: מבואות ומחקרים. פטריך, י., לימור, א. & ניומן, ה. (eds.). ירושלים, p. חלק א', 301-333

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2021

  Hermann Cohen's Jewish and Imperial politics during World War I

  Cohen skalli, C., 2021, Cohen im Kontext : Beitrage anlässlich seines hundertsten Todestages. Assel, H. & Wiedebach, H. (eds.). Tübingen, p. 177-197 21 p. (Religion in philosophy and theology; vol. 108).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Philanthropy and the Jewish Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Segev, Z., Sep 2021, The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora. R. Diner, H. (ed.). Oxford, p. 603-621 19 p. 3

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • philanthropy 100%
  • diaspora 81%
  • nineteenth century 77%
  • nationalism 74%
  • twentieth century 70%

• Science and Ideology: Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science

  Morris-Reich, A., 7 Jan 2021, Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda. Webster, C. (ed.). Cambridge, UK, p. 205-237 33 p.

  Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

• מאמר העיגולים לנתן העזתי

  Translated title of the contribution: Nathan of Gaza’s ‘Discourse of the Circles’חיות, י., 2021, בעקבות משיח: אוסף מקורות מראשית התפתחות האמונה השבתאית / מלוקטים מתוך כתביו של ר' אברהם בנימין נתן בן אלישע חיים אשכנזי המכונה נתן העזתי. Meir, J. (ed.). Jerusalem, p. 99–118 20 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2020

  A Fifteenth-Century Reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel, Providence, Astral Influences, Active Intellect, and Humanism

  Cohen Skalli, C. & Horezky, O., 2020, Gersonides’ Afterlife: studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries. Elior, O., Freudenthal, G. & Wirmer, D. (eds.). Leiden, The Netherlands, p. 159-226 68 p. (Studies in Jewish History and Culture; vol. 62).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Die Identität der Hebammen in Ägypten: Rekonstruktion eines verloren gegangenen rabbinischen Midrasch aus der Kairoer Geniza

  Lavi-Levḳovits, M., 2020, Die Bibel und die Frauen: Rabbinische Literature. Ilan, T. (ed.). Stuttgart, p. 341-358

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Ethnic Identity and Local Politics: Abba Hillel Silver as a Community Leader and International Politician in Cleveland, 1940–1950

  Segev, Z., 7 Dec 2020, Cleveland Jews and the Making of Midwestern Community. Martin, S. & Grabowski, J. J. (eds.). New Jersey, p. 102-121 20 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Migration, gender and family: A bottom-up perspective on migration, return migration and nation-building in 1950s Poland and Israel

  Silber, M., 1 Jan 2020, Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century. p. 127-144 18 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Return Migration 100%
  • European Jews 81%
  • Bottom-up 75%
  • Israel 72%
  • Nation-building 71%

• Portrayals of Biblical Figures in Lost Aggadic Traditions from the Cairo Genizah: Feminist Considerations

  Lavee, M., 2020, Language, Gender and Law in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu. Stamppfer, Z. & Ashur, A. (eds.). Leiden, p. 140-185 46 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila in Light of Contemporary Jewish Sources

  Newman, H. I., 2020, Jewish-Christian Disputations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fictions and Realities. Morlet, S. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, Vol. 21. p. 125-142 18 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Jewish Source 100%
  • Jews 56%
  • Solipsism 32%
  • Artifice 29%
  • Veneration 28%

• The Fourth Leg of the Chariot -Gender, Identity, and Heresy

  Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, R., 2020, Canonization and Alterity : Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature. Sharvit, G. & Goetschel, W. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 87-124 38 p. (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts; vol. 14).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Kabbalistic Tree

  Chajes, J. J., 2020, The Visualization of Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Kupfer, M., Cohen, A. & Ḥayyut Chajes, J. (eds.). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, p. 449–473 25 p. 5. (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages; vol. 16).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• ארכיאולוגיה נפשית, הורות ולידה: המפגש בין פסיכואנליזה וקבלה

  קרא-איוונוב-קניאל, ר., 2020, שתי וערב: פסיכואנליזה, אמנות ותרבות (קובץ בעריכת הילית אראל-ברודסקי). תל אביב, p. 251-281 31 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2019

  About Faces: Kabbalistic Visualizations of the Divine Visage in the Gross Family Collection

  Chajes, J. H. & Baumgarten, E., 2019, Windows on Jewish Worlds: The Gross Family Collection. Schrijver, E., Wiesemann, F. & Sabar, S. (eds.). Zutphen, Netherlands, p. 72–83 12 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Anti-Jewish Violence in the Age of the Great War and Revolution (1915-1921): A Bibliographical Essay

  Silber, M., 2019, Pogrom Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIXI i XX wieku. S. R. & A. M. (eds.). p. 63-92

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• David and Jerusalem: From Psalms to the Zohar

  Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, R., 2019, Psalms In/On Jerusalem. Pardes, I. & Münz-Manor, O. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 67-107 41 p. (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts; vol. 9).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Zohar 100%
  • Psalms 73%
  • Book of Psalms 67%
  • Jerusalem 64%
  • Pilgrims 24%

• From Philanthropy to Politics: Nahum Goldmann’s Interview with Polish Ambassador in Parisת January 1939

  Segev, Z., 2 Jan 2019, Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935–1941. Bajohr, F. & Pohl, D. (eds.). Göttingen, p. 199-206 8 p. 1. (European Holocaust Studies; vol. 1).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Jewish Radicalism as a Liminal Space. HaShomer haTza’ir between Zionism and the New Left, 1967–1973

  Elmaliach, T., 16 Dec 2019, Jewish Radicalisms : Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity. Jacob, F. & Kunze, S. (eds.). München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, p. 181-210 30 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Kabbalistic Trees (Ilanot) in Italy: Visualizing the Hierarchy of the Heavens

  Chajes, J. H., 2019, The Renaissance Speaks Hebrew. Busi, G. & Greco, S. (eds.). Milan, p. 170–183 14 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Prostitution: myth and reality

  Artman-Partock, T. & Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, R., 2019, Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel's Blood Money. Hertzog, E. & Shadmi, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 125-146 22 p. (Routledge Research in Gender and Society; vol. 75).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Prostitutes 100%
  • Prostitution 97%
  • Bible 27%
  • Virginal 26%
  • Zohar 25%

• Surmounting Obstacles to Migration and Repatriation amid Polish and Israeli Nation-Building

  Silber, M., 2019, Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe. Goldin, S., Spiro, M. & Ury, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 63-81

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Jewish Migration 100%
  • Repatriation 83%
  • Nation-building 65%
  • European Jews 49%
  • Immigrants 42%

• The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World

  Ben-Eliyahu, E., 1 Jan 2019, Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture. de Gruyter, p. 221-231 11 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Rabbinic 100%
  • Rabbis 96%
  • Revolt 34%
  • Second Temple 23%
  • Retreat 18%

• 'יוחסין עלו מבבל': גיור, חרדת הייחוס ותפיסת הגוף והמשפחה בבבל התלמודית

  לביא-לבקוביץ, מ., 2019, המשפחה בשלהי העת העתיקה: בין שארות לקהילה (קובץ בעריכת אוריאל סימונסון ויניב פוקס). ירושלים, p. 84-109 26 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• "ראה כל העולם כולו כדמיון סולם": אילן קבלי לר' יהושע בן ר' דוד מכורדיסטן

  Translated title of the contribution: "See the Whole World in the Likeness of a Ladder": A Kabbalistic Ilan by R. Joshua ben David of KurdistanChajes, J. J., Baumgarten, E. & Safrai, U., 2019, ספר זכרון לפרופ' מאיר בניהו: מחקרים בתלמוד, בהלכה, במנהג ובתולדות עם ישראל, מוקדשים לזכרו של הרב פרופ' מאיר בניהו מנוחתו כבוד. בר-אשר, מ., ליבס, י., עסיס, מ. & קפלן, י. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 843–872 30 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• "ראה כל העולם כולו כדמיון סולם": אילן קבלי לר' יהושע בן ר' דוד מכורדיסטן

  Translated title of the contribution: "He Saw the Entire World Resembling a Ladder: "Rabbi Yehoshua ben Rabbi David of Kurdistan's Kabbalistic Treeבאומגרטן, א., ספראי, א. & חיות, י., 2019, ספר זכרון לפרופ' מאיר בניהו: מחקרים בתלמוד, בהלכה, במנהג ובתולדות עם ישראל, מוקדשים לזכרו של הרב פרופ' מאיר בניהו מנוחתו כבוד. בר-אשר, מ., ליבס, י., עסיס, מ., קפלן, י. & בניהו, מ. ב. י. נ. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 843-871 29 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2018

  Don Isaac Abravanel and The Capture of Arzila in August 1471. Expansion, Communal Leadership and Cultural Networks

  Cohen-Skalli, C., 2018, Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’: A Tribute to Roberto Bachmann. Stuczynski, C. B. & Feitler, B. (eds.). p. 56-72 17 p. (The Iberian Religious World; vol. 4).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Four Sexes, Two Genders: The Rabbinic Move from Legal to Essentialist Polarisation of Identities

  Lavee, M. & Partock, T. A., 2018, The Legal Status of Intersex Persons. Scherpe, J. M., Dutta, A. & Helms, T. (eds.). Cambridge, p. 165–180

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Rabbinic 100%
  • Polarization 96%
  • Essentialist 96%
  • Rabbinic Literature 50%
  • Legal System 40%

• The motif of anticipation and the First World War: Cohen, Benjamin, and Rosenzweig

  Cohen skalli, C., 2018, Comparative studies in the humanities: מחקרים השוואתיים במדעי הרוח. Stroumsa, G. G. (ed.). Jerusalem, p. 55-88 34 p. (Studies in the humanities).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ספרות חז"ל באספקלריה של ספרות הכנסייה הנוצרית

  ניומן, ה., 2018, ספרות חז"ל הארץ-ישראלית (קובץ בעריכת מנחם כהנא, ורד נעם, מנחם קיסטר, דוד רוזנטל.). כהנא, מ., נעם, ו., קיסטר, מ. & רוזנטל, ד. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 681-704 24 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2017

  Apocalyptic poems in Christian and Jewish liturgy in late antiquity

  Newman, H., 2017, Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries. Bitton-Ashkelony, B. & Krueger, D. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 239-253

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Christian Liturgy 100%
  • Late Antiquity 66%
  • Liturgy 66%
  • Poem 44%
  • Apocalyptic Imagery 37%

• Jews, Poles, and Germans in Łódź during the Great War: Hegemony via acknowledgment and/or negation of multiple cultures

  Silber, M., 17 Oct 2017, Beyond the Trenches - The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War. p. 215-244 30 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • World War I 100%
  • Jews 89%
  • Local Government 84%
  • Multiethnic 71%
  • Jew 70%

• Like Mother Like Daughter: Mother–Daughter Relations in Babylonian Talmudic Stories

  Lavee, M., 2017, Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. Liverpool University Press, p. 105 – 128 24 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Magic, mysticism, and popular belief in Jewish culture (1500-1815)

  Chajes, J. H., 16 Nov 2017, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815. Cambridge University Press, Vol. 7. p. 475-490 16 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• National identity, cultural revival, and national struggle: The world Jewish congress, American Jewry, and the challenge of Jewish Diaspora in the shadow of the Holocaust

  Segev, Z., 15 Jun 2017, American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives. Krabbendam, H. & Rubin, D. (eds.). Frankfurt, p. 71-109 39 p. (Interamericana; vol. 12).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Holocaust 100%
  • American Jewry 82%
  • Cultural Revival 81%
  • Jewish Diaspora 79%
  • Jewish World 78%

• The Multilingualism of Don Isaac Abravanel

  Cohen skalli, C., 2017, Language interactions in early modern Europe. Del Soldato, E. & Rizz, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 159-172 24 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The World Jewish Congress, The League of Nations and the United Nations

  Segev, Z., 1 Mar 2017, Voice of a People: The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016. Z. Rosensaft, M. & S. Lauder, R. (eds.). New York, p. 101-114 14 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Two Schools of Jewish Politics? Galician Zionists, Polish Zionists and "Landespolitik" 1907-1922 - A Constructivist Approach

  Silber, M., Jun 2017, Fragmentierte Republik? Das politische Erbe der Teilungszeit in Polen 1918–1939. G. Müller, M. & Struve, K. (eds.). p. 331-350 (Phantom borders in eastern Europe; vol. 2).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Jewish Politics 100%
  • Constructivist 65%
  • German Empire 39%
  • Habsburg Monarchy 38%
  • Political Elites 34%

• What did the World Jewish Congress Know about the fate of European Jewry at the end of 1942? Sources and interpretations

  Segev, Z., 2017, The End of 1942: A Turning Point in World War II and in the comprehension of the Final Solution. Porat, D. & Michman, D. (eds.). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, p. 339-360 22 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• ‏בין תרבות לפוליטיקה: מחאת צעירים בישראל

  אלמליח, ט. & קדרון, ע., 2017, ישראל 1977-1967: המשכיות ומפנה. שיף, ע. & חלמיש, א. (eds.). שדה בוקר, p. 78-101 24 p. (עיונים בתקומת ישראל; vol. 11).

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• "להשיב את השכינה שגלתה" זיקת 'השומר הצעיר' לדת ולמסורת היהודית 1935-1982

  Translated title of the contribution: Bringing the Divine Presence Back from Exile: The Attitude of Hashomer Hatzair toward the Jewish Religion and Traditionאלמליח, ט., 2017, קיבוץ ויהדות. דרור, י. (ed.). ירושלים, p. 108-134 27 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• לכתוב או לא לכתוב: מיתוס הכתיבה בספר הזוהר

  קרא-איוונוב קניאל, ר., 2017, הסיפור הזוהרי. ליבס, י., בן-הראש, י. & הלנר-אשד, מ. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 238-306 49 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter