Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025

• 3440 Citations
• 26 h-index
• 270 Article
• 198 Chapter
• 81 Book
• 76 Review article
• 81 More
  • 31 Paper
  • 12 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 12 Foreword/postscript
  • 9 Other contribution
  • 5 Editorial
  • 3 Book/Film/Article review
  • 2 Conference contribution
  • 2 Book/Film/Article/Arts review
  • 2 Letter
  • 1 Report
  • 1 Short survey
  • 1 Special issue

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Compelling legends

  Gellman, U., 2024, In: European Journal of Jewish Studies. 18, 1, p. 55-78 24 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Hasidism 100%
  • Legend 60%
  • narrative 41%
  • Hagiography 40%
  • Compendium 39%

• Cultural Differences in Daily Coupling of Subjective Views of Aging and Negative Affect

  Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Kornadt, A. E., Neupert, S. D., Tse, D. C. K., Can, R. & Palgi, Y., 1 Sep 2024, In: Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 79, 9, gbae124.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Jewish Education in Algerian Jewish Communities—Multiple Identities in an Era of Change (1830–1939)

  Charvit, Y., Feb 2024, In: Religions. 15, 2, 163.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • French Period 100%
  • Jewish Education 87%
  • Jewish Identity 71%
  • French Sociology 25%
  • Jews 23%

• Magic in Time of Cholera: Between Jews and Christians in Eastern Europe

  Gellman, U., Mar 2024, In: Jewish Social Studies. 29, 2, p. 62-93 32 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cholera 100%
  • Jew 66%
  • Eastern Europe 58%
  • religious behavior 56%
  • Magic 55%

• Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach

  Wodziński, M., Gellman, U. & Sagiv, G., 2 Feb 2024, In: Religion.

  Bar-Ilan University, Open University of Israel

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Hasidism 100%
  • Dynasty 62%
  • Marriage 53%
  • marriage 52%
  • religious movement 47%

• Older adults’ subjective aging perceptions, mentalization, and social relationships: a micro-longitudinal study

  Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., Swisa, O. & Weissberger, G. H., 29 Jul 2024, (Published Online) In: Aging and Mental Health.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Politicians in a nutshell: four-minute documentary portraits of three Israeli leaders

  Adler, S. & Kohn, A., Dec 2024, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, 1, 427.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Clergy 100%
  • Television 87%
  • Israel 82%
  • Shimon Peres 69%
  • Israeli 65%

• Regulating Emotion: Burial and Mourning of Children in Early Modern Ashkenaz

  Kaplan, D., Dec 2024, In: Jewish Social Studies. 29, 1, p. 1-31 31 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • funeral 100%
  • ritual 94%
  • Rite 82%
  • Burial 79%
  • bylaws 63%

• Subjective Age and Personality Traits in Older Adults: Reciprocal and Indirect Effects Through Positive and Negative Affect

  Petashnick, J. R., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Kavé, G., Shmotkin, D. & Cohn-Schwartz, E., 25 Jan 2024, In: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Open University of Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • personality traits 100%
  • Personality 96%
  • personality 52%
  • time 37%
  • personality change 26%

• The Sabbatean syndrome, the messianic idea and Zionism

  Charvit, Y., 3 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Jewish Studies. 75, 1, p. 137-159 23 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Eretz Israel 100%
  • zionism 96%
  • historiography 77%
  • Zionism 76%
  • Modern Era 69%

• Urban History on the Seam: Frankfurt’s Judengasse and the Early Modern City

  Kaplan, D., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Urban History.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ghetto 100%
  • Early Modern City 99%
  • urban history 97%
  • ghetto 79%
  • Urban History 75%

• Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity

  Conforti, Y., 2024, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 60, 3, p. 483-497 15 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • nationalism 100%
  • Bible 96%
  • zionism 87%
  • bible 79%
  • Sanctity 69%

• שבר, שחזור, התקבלות וקנוניזציה: [מאמר ביקורת]

  פרזיגר, א., 2024, In: ציון: רבעון לחקר תולדות ישראל. 89, 2, p. 287-295 9 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• ״משנת חסידים״ ו״ארחות צדיקים״ סיפורי חכמים וביקורת ההלכה

  Translated title of the contribution: LIFNIM MI-SHURAT HA-DINAS HALAKHIC CRITICISMשרמר, ע., 2024, In: ראשית: עיונים ביהדות. ח, p. 1-15 15 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Criticism 100%
  • Rabbis 88%
  • Din 75%
  • Torah 61%
  • Rabbinic 61%
• 2023

  Attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning

  Bodner, E., Shrira, A. & Palgi, Y., Feb 2023, In: Psychology and Health. 38, 2, p. 190-208 19 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Anxiety 100%
  • anxiety 87%
  • Health 67%
  • health 63%
  • Psychology 27%

• Celebrating Life, Sanctifying Death, and Creating Identity Through Two Forms of Holocaust Commemoration

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Jewish Identities. 16, 1-2, p. 149-164 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Holocaust 100%
  • Commemoration 54%
  • Jewish Identity 31%
  • Purim 15%
  • Holocaust Narrative 14%

• Censored Genealogies in Pablo de Santa María’s Vita (1591): Limpieza and Royal Blood

  Israeli, Y., 2023, In: Ibéria Judaica. 15, p. 171-200

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Echoes of Ancestral Trauma: Russo-Ukrainian War Salience and Psychological Distress Among Subsequent Generations in Holocaust Survivor Families

  Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M. & Palgi, Y., 7 Dec 2023, (Published Online) In: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

  Ariel University, University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Holocaust 100%
  • Armed Conflicts 65%
  • Psychological Distress 60%
  • Survivors 53%
  • trauma 52%

• Endowments as a Tool for the Shaping of Community Identity in the Jewish Society of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria

  Dotan, A., 2023, In: Endowment Studies. 7, 1, p. 22-43 22 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Waqf 100%
  • Palestine 96%
  • Syria 74%
  • Egypt 69%
  • Mamluk 59%

• Feeling Younger, Rehabilitating Better: Reciprocal and Mediating Effects between Subjective Age and Functional Independence in Osteoporotic Fracture and Stroke Patients

  Kalir, D. M., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Batz, C., Ben-Eliezer, A., Heyman, N., Lieberman, D., Seleznev, I., Shugaev, I., Zaslavsky, O., Zikrin, E. & Bodner, E., 1 Jan 2023, In: Gerontology. 69, 1, p. 109-117 9 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Osteoporotic Fractures 100%
  • Emotions 66%
  • Stroke 57%
  • Optimism 40%
  • Self Concept 32%

• Hasidic Communities in the Land of Israel in the Nineteenth Century

  Gellman, U. & Stillman, N., 2023, In: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. 35, p. 27-50 24 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• ON THE HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE TANNAITIC EXPRESSION “NO TIME TO POUR [LIBATION WINE]”: A STUDY IN THE REALIA OF ROMAN PALESTINE IN THE SECOND CENTURY CE

  Friedheim, E., 2023, In: Revue Biblique. 130, 1, p. 72-97 26 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Roman Palestine 100%
  • Realia 93%
  • wine 79%
  • Palestine 73%
  • 2nd Century BC 67%

• The Body as Memory: Breast Cancer and the Holocaust in Women's Art

  Presiado, M., Apr 2023, In: Arts. 12, 2, 23 p., 65.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Uncompromising Zionism in North Africa

  Charvit, Y., 2023, In: Israel Affairs. 29, 3, p. 602-617 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • zionism 100%
  • Zionism 79%
  • North Africa 78%
  • rabbi 71%
  • Rabbis 49%

• Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’

  Conforti, Y., 2023, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 59, 4, p. 597-608 12 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • nationalism 100%
  • Utopian Imagination 96%
  • Utopian Literature 63%
  • Jewish Nationalism 60%
  • Jerusalem 56%

• ההיסטוריוגרפיה של נשים בשואה – מבט עכשווי

  באומל-שורץ, י., 2023, In: בשביל הזיכרון. 42, p. 6-15 10 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• המוסתערבים בצפת במאה ה-16

  ארד, ד., 2023, In: עת-מול: עיתון לתולדות ארץ ישראל ועם ישראל. 284, p. 1-4 4 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• זהות, הנצחה וזיכרון: מסע בעקבות שני דפוסים של הנצחת השואה

  Translated title of the contribution: Identity, Memorialization, and Memory: A Journey into the Meaning of Two Forms of Holocaust Commemorationבאומל-שורץ, י., 2023, In: היסטוריה, הגות, ריאליה.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• ‏"ילד של אימא"? המאבק על הינוקא בחסידות בלז, 1957-1966

  שגיב, ג. & קפלן, ק., 2023, In: ציון. פח, ג, p. 371-411 41 p.

  Open University of Israel, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 'ילד של אימא'? המאבק על הינוקא בחסידות בלז, 1966-1957

  Translated title of the contribution: The struggle over the child (Yanuqa) in the Belz Hasidic court, 1957-1966שגיב, ג. & קפלן, ק., 2023, In: ציון: רבעון לחקר תולדות ישראל. 88, 3, p. 371-411 41 p.

  Open University of Israel, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• ישראל אף על פי שחטא? לשינוי מעמדם ההלכתי של מומרים בימי־הביניים: [מאמר ביקורת]

  ישראלי, י., 2023, In: חידושים בחקר תולדות יהודי גרמניה ומרכז אירופה. 25, 1, p. 2015-221 1795 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• לזכר בנימין בן-דוד (1933-2022) ז"ל

  Translated title of the contribution: In Memory of Binyamin Ben-Davidהראל, י., 2023, In: אב"א.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• מקהיר עד טרוקי: המרחב הקראי בעת החדשה המוקדמת

  Translated title of the contribution: From Cairo to Troky: Karaite Space in the Early Modern Periodארד, ד., 2023, In: פעמים: רבעון לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח. ‏ 170-171, p. 13-43 31 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• רשויות חופפות: מערכת המשפט של יהודי מדינת שפייאר בעת החדשה המוקדמת

  Translated title of the contribution: Overlapping jurisdictions: the legal system of the early modern Jewish community in the bishopric of Speyerקפלן, ד., 2023, In: חידושים בחקר תולדות יהודי גרמניה ומרכז אירופה. 25, 1, p. 49–84 1 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• ‘Jewish Toronto’: street naming policies and practices in the north of Metropolitan Toronto

  Katz, Y. & Bigon, L., Jun 2023, In: Onomazein. 60, p. 70-86 17 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Naming 100%
  • Metropolitan 97%
  • Minority Groups 84%
  • Linguistic Landscape 52%
  • minority 47%
• 2022

  Animal metaphors and similes in biblical prophecies and royal Mesopotamian inscriptions

  Breier, I., 2022, In: Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages. 48, 2, p. 17-45 29 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Animal Metaphors 100%
  • Biblical Prophecy 93%
  • Royal Inscription 91%
  • Simile 74%
  • Animals 59%

• A Private Life of a Communal Leader: The Autobiography of Aryeh Leib Feinstein (1821–1903)

  Gellman, U., 2022, In: Zutot. 20, 1, p. 119-134 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Autobiography 100%
  • European Jews 73%
  • Private Life 69%
  • Ego-documents 45%
  • Public Sphere 44%

• A Synagogue Center Grows in Tel Aviv: On Glocalization, Consumerism and Religion

  Libel-Hass, E. & Ferziger, A. S., 1 Oct 2022, In: Modern Judaism. 42, 3, p. 273-304 32 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Glocalization 100%
  • glocalization 97%
  • Tel Aviv 89%
  • Consumerism 85%
  • Synagogue 79%

• Chronicles as a Source for the History of Pre-Exilic Israel: Between "Negativism" and "Positivism" Yigal Levin

  Levin, Y., 2022, In: Biblische Notizen. 193, p. 29-44 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Positivism 100%
  • Israel 73%
  • Chronicles 58%
  • Minimalist 39%
  • Books of Samuel 26%

• Cultural differences in the association between subjective age and health: Evidence from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-Israel)

  Bergman, Y. S. & Shrira, A., 18 Jan 2022, In: Ageing and Society. 42, 1, p. 32-47 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Diagnostic Self Evaluation 100%
  • Retirement 99%
  • Israel 92%
  • Cultural Differences 86%
  • Health Surveys 80%

• From “a Nothing” to Something Special: Art as a Space of Holding Attunement in the Creative Experience of Holocaust Survivor Artists

  Diamond, S. & Shrira, A., 2022, In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 16, 2, p. 318-331 14 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Holocaust 100%
  • Creativity 79%
  • Holocaust Survivors 77%
  • Attunement 77%
  • Art 70%

• JEWISH ECHOES OF ANTI-TALMUDIC LITERATURE: REVISITING “THE TALMUD IN THE ADDITIONES OF PAUL OF BURGOS”

  Yisraeli, Y., Nov 2022, In: AJS Review. 46, 2, p. 347-373 27 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Memories of the Assyrian exile in Persian-period Yehud: a view from Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah

  Levin, Y., 2022, In: HEBREW BIBLE AND ANCIENT ISRAEL. 11 [supplement], p. 224-238 15 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ezra-Nehemiah 100%
  • Yehud 95%
  • Persian Period 85%
  • Assyria 84%
  • Assyrians 78%

• Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities

  Kaplan, D. & Carlebach, E., Dec 2022, In: Jewish history. 36, 3-4, p. 297-336 40 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Jewish Community 100%
  • Devotion 94%
  • death 70%
  • funeral 37%
  • Burial 35%

• אסירים רגילים: גטו טרזיינשטט, אייג'נסי ונורמליות: [מאמר ביקורת]

  ויצמן, י., 2022, In: חידושים בחקר תולדות יהודי גרמניה ומרכז אירופה. 24, p. 167-171 5 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• ג'ואן רינגלהיים (2021-1939) - דברים לזכרה

  באומל-שורץ, י. & עופר, ד., 2022, In: יד ושם: קובץ מחקרים. נ', 2, p. 11-15 5 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• הדרישה לשחרור יהודים עבדים באיגרת אריסטאס כביטוי לחשש מהתבוללות: עיון בתהליכי טמיעה של עבדים יהודים בפזורה ההלניסטית

  Translated title of the contribution: The Liberation of Jewish Slaves in the Letter of Aristeas as an Expression of Fear of Assimilation: A Study of the Assimilation Process Affecting Jewish Slaves in the Hellenistic Diasporaאסקוחידו, י. & פרידהיים, ע., 2022, In: מדעי היהדות. 57, 2, p. 39-78 40 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• המוסתערבים בדמשק במאה השש-עשרה

  ארד, ד., 2022, In: מכאן ומשאם: כתב העת למורשת יהדות דמשק. 36, p. 22-27 6 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• "צבת בצבת"- מקורה, עריכתה ונוסחה של הברייתא על כתב התורה בתוספתא סנהדרין

  Translated title of the contribution: Inseparable Considerations: The Origins, Redaction, and Text of the Baraita About the Script of the Torah in Tosefta Sanhedrin 4:7שרמר, ע. & קצוף, ב., 2022, In: JSIJ: כתב עת אלקטרוני למדעי היהדות. 22, p. 1-21 21 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• רבנות, חסידות ומאבקי ירושה בגליציה בשלהי המאה התשע עשרה ‏

  Translated title of the contribution: The Rabbinate and Hasidoism in Late Nineteenth-Century Galiciaגלמן, א., 2022, In: ציון: רבעון לחקר תולדות ישראל. 87, 2, p. 213-246 34 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review