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Hizky Shoham is the head of the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel; and a co-director of the Bar-Ilan’s Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS-BIU). He also serves as a research fellow in the Kogod Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the Shalom Hartman institute in Jerusalem. His works consist of anthropological history and cultural sociology of Zionism, the Yishuv, and Israel; and cultural theory. His publications include Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Academic Studies Press, 2014); and Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel (Brill, 2017). His new manuscript Why Bar and Bat Mitzvah? Gender, Spectacle, and Temporality in Modern Jewish Cultures has won the Goldberg Prize for 2022 and is about to be published in Hebrew by the Open University of Israel Press.
Shoham engages in interdisciplinary research that combines history, theory, sociology and anthropology, and political philosophy and is mainly interested in the way in which cultural and social processes occur from below without the direction of social and political institutions, with an emphasis on theoretically-informed work. His books dealt with the meanings that the Israeli and Jewish publics finds in the holidays and life cycle rituals, focusing on interfaces between religion, nationalism and consumer culture. Other publications dealt, in addition to these topics, with the history of childhood, family, and emotions, as well as the theory of time, space, culture and religion.
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PhD, Bar-Ilan University
Nov 2002 → Oct 2006
Award Date: 24 Oct 2006
Master, Bar-Ilan University
… → Oct 2002
Award Date: 31 Oct 2002
Bachelor
Oct 1997 → Oct 2000
Award Date: 31 Oct 2000
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article